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Why Much Hyped Protection of Ganga Has Not Succeeded in India -Bharat Dogra

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Protection of the Ganga river is one of those tasks in which the government can achieve great success with the enthusisastic involvement of people. Then why is it that success has so far proved so elusive? The available data for Varanasi, the most prioritized place for Ganga protection, reveals that in terms of the essential parameters which define acceptable water fit for bathing, the Ganga here remains much more polluted than what is considered to be clean in scientific terms.

This has happened despite the Namami Gange Project committing Rs. 20,000 crore (1 crore=10 million) to this task. One part of the answer is that on average about one-third of the sanctioned funds were just not released ,much more in some years, but clearly even in terms of the limited amounts spent the achievement is much less than what was expected.

Perhaps no other organization has monitored the water quality of the Ganga river so consistently and with such sincerity as the Sankatmochan Foundation (SF) in Varanasi, an organization known for its valuable, highly constructive role and innovative work on reducing river pollution. It has close spiritual linkages as well that are deeply rooted in the social harmony of Varanasi, the unity of its people and its shared heritage. Ideally the government should have put such an organization in a leadership role for protecting the Ganga, but the BJP with its deeply divisive agenda has kept such organizations at a distance, and thereby hangs the tale of why the highly promising, eco-friendly approach of the SF has been neglected and the BJP government has preferred the technocratic, expensive, big business oriented approach which experience has shown to be not very effective.

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