Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 13506
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;</div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 13506
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;</div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67f87600189e1-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67f87600189e1-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 13506,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 13628,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 13506
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&amp;rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &amp;ldquo;gross negligence&amp;rdquo; towards the river&amp;rsquo;s worsening condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &amp;ldquo;toothless tiger&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&amp;rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&amp;rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The trio also criticised the government&amp;rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&amp;rsquo;s condition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But they raised other issues, too. &amp;ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &amp;ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&amp;rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &amp;ldquo;Waterman&amp;rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &amp;ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&amp;rdquo; he told The Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&amp;rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify&quot;&gt;The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &amp;ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;</div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 13506,
		'title' => 'Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 13628,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 13506,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu',
	'metaKeywords' => 'River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society',
	'metaDesc' => '



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...',
	'disp' => '<div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;</div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 13506,
	'title' => 'Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
<br />
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">
The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Telegraph, 12 March, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120312/jsp/nation/story_15239310.jsp',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'neglect-makes-ganga-experts-quit-by-jayanta-basu-13628',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 13628,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 13506
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu'
$metaKeywords = 'River,Pollution,Environment,water,civil society'
$metaDesc = '



Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.





Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister...'
$disp = '<div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga&rsquo;s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of &ldquo;gross negligence&rdquo; towards the river&rsquo;s worsening condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a &ldquo;toothless tiger&rdquo;.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;We are disappointed with the government&rsquo;s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,&rdquo; the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The trio also criticised the government&rsquo;s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river&rsquo;s condition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But they raised other issues, too. &ldquo;Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.&rdquo;</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for &ldquo;not understanding his responsibility&rdquo;. &ldquo;He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,&rdquo; Rajendra Singh, known as &ldquo;Waterman&rdquo; for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. &ldquo;We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,&rdquo; he told The Telegraph.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,&rdquo; said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: &ldquo;I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.&rdquo;</div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Neglect makes Ganga experts quit by Jayanta Basu

Three non-government members of a central body tasked with the Ganga’s clean-up have quit after accusing the government of “gross negligence” towards the river’s worsening condition. Magsaysay winner Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Hyatt Siddiqui have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who chairs the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), saying the body has been reduced to a “toothless tiger”. The committee has around 20 members, including senior officials and the chief ministers of states through which the Ganga flows. It has nine non-government members. “We are disappointed with the government’s gross negligence towards the worsening condition of the Ganga and rendering the National Ganga River Basin Authority virtually a toothless tiger without any work,” the experts said in their joint resignation to the Prime Minister yesterday. The trio also criticised the government’s alleged indifference towards the deteriorating health of environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, who has been on a fast since mid-January to highlight the river’s condition. But they raised other issues, too. “Although the authority was constituted nearly three years back, it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years despite our repeated requests.” Rajendra Singh criticised the Prime Minister today at a news conference in Delhi for “not understanding his responsibility”. “He is a sober Prime Minister but I am angry that he did not understand his responsibilities towards the Ganga.... The Prime Minister never tried to understand suggestions and activities of the members,” Rajendra Singh, known as “Waterman” for his work on water-harvesting, was quoted as saying by PTI. He said the NGOs would bring in a week the draft of a Ganga Lok Bill, proposing strong and effective legislative measures to protect the river, with a request to have the blueprint discussed in Parliament. Late this evening, Rajendra Singh hinted that they may reconsider their resignations. “We are open to reconsidering only if he (the Prime Minister) assures us that the government will seriously consider the issues raised by us,” he told The Telegraph. But some of the other six NGO representatives frowned on the extreme action. “It’s a fact that there have been some issues regarding the manner the authority has run so far. However, the problems of Ganga are too diverse and complex to be settled through fasting and resignations,” said K.J. Nath, a member from Bengal. The government conceded there were issues but urged the members to sort them out internally. Panel official Rajib Sharma said: “I am yet to see the resignations. Their main complaint is about the infrequent meetings. The last meeting could not be held because of the election embargo (for the state polls). I request them to settle outstanding issues within the authority itself.”