| Mr.
Babu on the status of Rivers in
India
I do not want to make Ganga as a
benchmark, because every river and
water body has it’s own problem.
We are seeing that presently every
river, lake or any water body is
getting more and more polluted.
There are rivers, which are worst
than the Ganga. The issues of Ganga
are simplified as compared to other
rivers, because Ganag has a flow.
The problem in Yamuna, one tributaries
of Ganga is more severe, as there
is absolutely no fresh water flow
in the river.
The condition
of rivers like Musi and Bundi in
Rajasthan are really very terrible.
There is absence of freshwater flow
and the amount of pollution that
we are putting in it is phenomenal.
GAP has created some infrastructure
to take care of some amount of sewage
in Ganga. However there are rivers
in India, which have 100% untreated
sewage. So problems are different
in rivers located at different parts
of our country.
Government’s
has spent phenomenal amount of money
in its initiative called National
River Cleaning Program. Around twenty
five hundred crore has been sent
so far, but unfortunately nothing
is visible on ground.
I hope
that the lessons learnt from the
failures of the plans, should be
immediately implemented accordingly,
otherwise all the money will be
ineffective.
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