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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Value the knowledge of the Ganga’s riverine communities for river’s development -NCAER

Value the knowledge of the Ganga’s riverine communities for river’s development -NCAER

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published Published on Mar 3, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 4, 2022

-Hindustan Times

The National Council of Applied Economic Research recently conducted a study, titled, Livelihood and Health Challenges of Riverine Communities of the River Ganga, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Tata Centre for Development to explore the social & economic engagement of the riverine communities on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

A large section of the population living in the Ganga river basin still depends on the river for daily use activities and livelihood. Hence, the cleaning of the Ganga river’s water and making it safe for use remains a major goal for policymakers. Towards this end, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also announced the launch of the Namami Gange Clean-up programme with a budget of 20,000 crore during 2015–2020. However, the National Green Tribunal stated in 2017 that “not a single drop of river Ganga has been cleaned so far.” In this context, this NCAER study attempted to examine the quality of the Ganga river’s water at selected stretches of the river in Uttar Pradesh (Narora and Unnao) and West Bengal (Jangipur and Tribeni) during 2019-20. Further, it assessed the inter-linkages between pollution in the Ganga river water and the livelihood of users of the river by analysing their socio-economic profiles.

The conventional monitoring of river water is done by collecting water samples from specific locations on the river and analysing the samples in a laboratory. This location and time-specific measurement provides only a partial picture of a river’s health since the factors affecting water quality can vary greatly by location and time. In comparison, continuous, in-situ water quality monitoring systems provide real-time data that not only measures the river’s health but also provides the basis for significant riverine research. The continuous, in-situ data collection for the Ganga was undertaken in two phases across four upstream and downstream locations in the two states, breaking away from the conventional ways of measuring water quality. Such data makes possible in-depth socio-economic studies on the implications of river water pollution on the health and livelihood of riverine communities, as well as the economic costs of river water pollution.

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Hindustan Times, 3 March, 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/economy/value-the-knowledge-of-the-ganga-s-riverine-communities-for-river-s-development-101646299011532.html


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