Ganga Pollution
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If cigarette packets can have health warning, why not Ganga, asks NGT
India | Jul 28, 2018, 10:57 AM ISTThe green panel directed National Mission for Clean Ganga to install display boards at a gap of 100 kilometres, indicating whether the water was fit for bathing or drinking.
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'Messing' with 'living entity' Ganga may lead to fine of up to Rs 100 cr, 7 years jail term
India | Jun 12, 2017, 09:18 AM ISTRobbery, cheating, causing grievous hurt and attempt to commit culpable homicide are all punishable by up to seven years in prison. Now add one more crime to that list that may soon attract such a stringent punishment: messing with Ganga
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Govt to form teams to identify source of Ganga pollution
India | Nov 02, 2014, 11:38 AM ISTNew Delhi: Expediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project of cleansing the Ganga, the Centre will constitute 25 special teams to check the source of pollution of the holy river so that further action could
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SC asks NGT to act against industrial units polluting Ganga
India | Oct 30, 2014, 06:56 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to take action against industrial units polluting Ganga including snapping water and power connections to them while slamming Centre and State Pollution Control
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Modi's vision is to achieve goal of clean Ganga: Government tells SC
National | Oct 16, 2014, 07:39 AM ISTNew Delhi: The NDA government asserted before the Supreme Court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious clean Ganga plan has a ‘vision' to achieve the goal of 'aviral' (uninterrupted) and 'nirmal' (clean) river."The ultimate (plan
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118 local bodies of 5 states to meet for Ganga cleaning plan
India | Oct 15, 2014, 01:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: Stepping up efforts to check pollution in River Ganga, the ministries of water resources and urban development have joined hands and called for a meeting of elected chiefs of 118 urban local bodies
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Cleaning Ganga will take 18 years and massive investment: Centre to SC
India | Sep 24, 2014, 07:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: After being rapped by the Supreme Court for its approach to clean Ganga, the Narendra Modi government has placed before it a blueprint of short, medium and long term measures that spread over
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Inspection ordered over Ganga pollution in UP
India | Feb 13, 2014, 07:28 AM ISTGhaziabad: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Wednesday directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and its Uttar Pradesh unit to inspect a sugar mill, a distillery and a dairy plant on whether they were discharging