The Clean Ganga Programme: Where Do We Stand Now? By Deepak Parvatiyar June 27, 2015 Rate this post Published in elections.in (http://www.elections.in/blog/clean-ganga-programme-stand-now/) On 5 June, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi rued that Ganga “cannot be cleaned even in next 50 years, the way the river was being cleaned…” Perhaps this was the sharpest criticism of the Modi government by any member of the Parliament over the cleaning of the holy river – one of the topmost agenda of the government as enshrined in the BJP manifesto. Loopholes in Implementation of Clean Ganga Project The government has given utmost priority to cleaning of Ganga. Creating a dedicated ministry under Uma Bharti for the purpose shows Modi’s commitment to the cause but the task is onerous due to many reasons. Already, crores of rupees have gone down the drain in the name of cleaning Ganga over the years. The Ganga Action Plan (GAP), which was laun
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