Ganga

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Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Policy matters this week Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PM

Aiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS

Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Centre speeds up its Clean Ganga Mission
Policy matters this week Posted on 19 Jan, 2016 11:36 AM

Centre to involve public, private firms for urban sewage treatment and Ganga clean up 

Ganga river at Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
NITI Ayog allocates Rs 1000 crore for groundwater contaminated zones
Policy matters this week Posted on 11 Jan, 2016 09:48 PM

Government to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones

A hand pump in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Centre provides relief fund to drought and flood-hit states
Policy matters this week Posted on 05 Jan, 2016 11:19 AM

Relief assistance to drought-hit Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and flood-hit West Bengal

Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)
How did Indian rivers fare in 2015?
Namami Gange', big budgets, 'Yamuna Aarti', interlinking of rivers and many other plans were made by the government to better our rivers. Have they helped? Posted on 30 Dec, 2015 12:33 PM

Government allocated Rs 4,173 crore for Water Resources and of this, Namami Gange received Rs 2,037 crore.

Ganga at Gadmukteshwar (Source: India Water Portal Flickr Photos)
No new construction to be taken up on the Ganga: Government
Policy matters this week Posted on 16 Dec, 2015 11:11 AM

Government decides not to allow new construction on the Ganga

Ganga river at Sangam in Allahabad (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Choppy waters and a calm river voyager
Emmanuel Theophilus was awarded the ' Bhagirath Prayas Samman' at the India Rivers Day 2015 for his valiant and untiring effort to safeguard the integrity of the Mahakali River. Posted on 06 Dec, 2015 12:31 PM

The epic voyage--Nadisutra--along the Ganga may have been the high point of Emmanuel Theophilus’s recent work, but there have been many more peaks and valleys for this fervent mountaineer cum ecologist. Theo lives in a remote village near Munsiyari in Uttarakhand.

Theophilus being awarded the ' Bhagirath Prayas Samman' (Source: Kush Sethi)
Be careful while bathing if you're in these six districts of UP!
News this week Posted on 24 Nov, 2015 11:30 AM

UP's rivers and groundwater are loaded with harmful effluents: CPCB

View of the Yamuna in UP (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
National Seminar on Rejuvenation of River Ganga at NIH, Roorkee
This Seminar is being organized to discuss various R&D options which can be implemented to address the objectives of “Namami Gange”
Posted on 18 Nov, 2015 06:42 PM

The participants are expected to share their experiences and views on the following aspects of Ganga River during the seminar:

CPCB gets strict with non-compliant industries along the Ganga
Policy matters this week Posted on 16 Nov, 2015 09:34 PM

Respond immediately or face closure: CPCB to non-compliant industries along the Ganga

Ganga river at Sangam in Allahabad (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
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