Water Pollution

Protest to save Ganga funds

LUCKNOW: Thronged by thousands of devotees on a daily basis, Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati in Allahabad will have a different set of visitors on September 23 an

Publication Date: 
07/09/2011
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Ganga, Ganga Action Plan, Water Resources, Rajendra Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), River Pollution, Sewage Pollution
Environment

Bengal initiates steps to tackle pollution

The West Bengal Government has devised a multi-pronged strategy to curb the growing environmental degradation including development of appropriate technology to curb industrial and other pollution

Publication Date: 
31/08/2011
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Pollution, Environment, Air Pollution Control, Water Pollution Control, Afforestation, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Plastics, Radiation, Health Effects, Electronic Waste, Sewage, Wetlands, Ganga Action Plan, Environment Act 1986, Bio-Medical Waste Rules 1998
Water Pollution

Pollution in rivers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Pollution in rivers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
River Pollution, Statistics, India, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Water Quality, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Ganga Action Plan, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Water Pollution Control, National River Action Plan, Yamuna Action Plan, Narmada
Water Pollution

Profaning the sacred Ganga

Pollution is passe. Millions of Kumbh pilgrims bathing in the Ganga did not know they were taking a plunge right in the filth of untreated sewage. A CAG report reveals the shocking saga of the Uttarakhand government's callous mismanagement.

Publication Date: 
16/07/2011
Sweta Ranjan
Governance Now
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Tags:
Ganga, River Pollution, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Waste Disposal, Sewage Pollution, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Haridwar (D), Religious Places, Corruption, Ganga Action Plan
Water Pollution

Govt, Bank ink 2 environment deals

The Indian government has signed a $1 billion loan with multilateral lending agency, the World Bank, to help support the cleaning of the Ganga river.

A National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has been set up under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with chief ministers of the five states through which the Ganga flows, including Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, being

Publication Date: 
15/06/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Industrial Pollution, Ganga Action Plan, World Bank, Biodiversity, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Water Resources

National policy for use of river water needed: conservationist

Magsaysay award-winning water conservationist Rajendra Singh, said on Sunday that the Ministry of Environment and Forests had become

Publication Date: 
30/05/2011
Vinaya Deshpande
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Ganga Action Plan, Rivers, Dams, Floods, Land Encroachments, Groundwater, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Sikkim
Water Pollution

Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for World Bank assisted National Ganga River Basin Project

The Government of India (GoI) has established the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) for comprehensive management of the river. The NGRBA program will adopt a river-basin approach and has been given a multi-sectoral mandate to address both water quantity and quality aspects. The NGRBA has resolved that by year 2020 no untreated municipal sewage or industrial

Publication Date: 
12/05/2011
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Tags:
River Pollution, Ganga, World Bank, Ganga Action Plan, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Solid Waste, Waste Management, Industrial Pollution, Legislation, Water Pollution Control, India, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

New scheme to check Ganga pollution

Acknowledging that the two-phased Ganga Action, which started in 1985, has failed to have the desired effect in checking river pollution, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the National Ganga River Basin Authority, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, recently decided that by 2020 no untreated municipal sewage and industrial effluents would be allowed to flow into the Ganga.

Publication Date: 
16/12/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga Action Plan, Ganga, River Pollution, Water Pollution, Uttar Pradesh, India, Urban Development
Water Pollution

Guidelines for preparation of project reports under NRCP and NGRBA

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing an ambitious programme of pollution abatement of rivers in India. It started in 1985 with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and gradually extended to other polluted rivers through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP).

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
River Pollution, Ganga Action Plan, India, Ganga, Water Supply, Water Quality, Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Industrial Waste, Public Participation, Waste Management, Solid Waste, Water Pollution
Water Pollution

Can government clean Ganga?

Few will take very seriously the undertaking given by the government in the Supreme Court that River Ganga will be pure and free of pollution by 2020. Similar commitments were made to the public 25 years ago when, in 1985, the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) to clean this most treasured of the sub-continent

Publication Date: 
12/11/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ganga, Ganga Action Plan, River Pollution, Supreme Court

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