How can we save Ganges?
Modi launched his flagship Namami Gange programme a month after he took office in 2014. The 200-billion-rupee programme aims to set up several sewage treatment plants, develop riverfronts, clean up the river and restore biodiversity along the way. And over the years, there have been some changes.
How are people cleaning the Ganges river?
The plan involves a 4-mile pipeline to intercept all the sewage that would normally flow in to the Ganges from the Varanasi area. The pipeline would then extend another 4 miles to an elevated sandbar in the Ganges where a series of ponds would cleanse the waste using microorganisms to destroy the bacteria.
What steps can be taken to restore Ganga to its past glory?
What steps can be taken to restore the river Ganga to its past…
- solid waste management.
- Installation of sewage treatment plan.
- installation of crematorium.
- Development of river front.
- Provision of low cost sanitary facilities.
- To creat public awareness.
What is the progress of Ganga Action Plan?
VARANASI: The Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Phase-II project which should have been completed by March this year in Varanasi, has so far attained only 12% progress. If this remains the pace of work one can imagine how the Mission Clean Ganga will be achieved by 2020.
What are the disadvantages of Ganga Action Plan?
Some of them are as funny as they are tragic.
- Inadequate capacity building. Under Phase 1 of the GAP, the sewage estimates were based on population and water supply rate, with sewage generation assumed to be 80 percent of the water supplied.
- No power to run the STPs.
- Faulty planning.
What is the major concerns of Ganga Action Plan?
The major concerns of Ganga Action Plan: ☆ To intersect and treat the raw sewage flowing through directly into the river. ☆ To ensure and enforce, efficient treatment of industrial waste. ☆ To monitor the quality of river water.
What are the two main goals of Ganga Action Plan?
1986 with the main objective of pollution abatement, to improve the water quality by Interception, Diversion and treatment of domestic sewage and present toxic and industrial chemical wastes from identified grossly polluting units entering in to the river. The other objectives of the Ganga Action Plan are as under.
Who started the Ganga Action Plan?
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
What is the main aim of Ganga Action Plan?
The Ganga action plan was launched in the year 1986 on 14th January. Its main aim was to lower the pollution, improve the quality of water in the Ganga river by diversion and treatment of domestic sewage and toxic wastes from identified point sources of pollution.
Why did the Ganga Action Plan failure?
One of the failures of the Ganga Action plan was that it was a completely bureaucratic exercise, top-down, end of the pipe interventions. Lack of data on the water use and wastewater generation ensured that the plans failed mierably.