Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on November 1, 2021 that cleaning of river Ganga is of utmost importance. (Image: Shutterstock)
In the Ganga Utsav being organized to celebrate rivers, the Minister said that the National Mission for Clean Ganga has been successful in connecting the common man with the river.
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Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat on Monday said that cleaning the Ganga is of utmost importance for the government as the holy river has been the foundation of India’s economic activities. Speaking at the Ganga Utsav organized here to celebrate rivers, the Minister said that the National Mission for Clean Ganga has been successful in connecting the common man with the river.
“We have succeeded in connecting Ganga with the common man and made it a mass movement under NMCG. There are crores of people who are doing their duty in carrying out the process of cleaning the Ganga.
He said, “Ganga has been the foundation of India’s economic activity and the livelihood of 40 percent of the country’s population is dependent on the Ganga, which makes its cleaning extremely important for us.”
Shekhawat said that India is a diverse country and rivers like Ganga bind and unite people, hence our commitment towards them is essential. “Earlier the work of cleaning the Ganga was being done in silos and efforts were not made at the desired intensity,” he said.
Jal Shakti Secretary Pankaj Kumar said that a lot of improvement can be seen at the ground level from NMCG. He said, “We have already started to see significant improvement on land with improvements in water quality, whether it is in terms of dissolved oxygen or organic oxygen, or fecal coliform and this improvement can be seen in many places. ,” They said.
He further said that the government is cleaning rivers and expanding beyond Ganga.
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