Clean Ganga
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UP CM Yogi Adityanath avers resolution of 'Aviral-Nirmal' Ganga will be fulfilled before Kumbh 2025
India | Dec 21, 2022, 04:56 PM IST'Aviral-Nirmal' Ganga: According to a release issued by the state government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also gave the necessary guidelines while reviewing the implementation of the 'Namami Gange' project.
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Mukabala | The controversy surrounding floating of dead bodies in River Ganga
News | May 26, 2021, 06:37 PM ISTDays after the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) asked a 'detailed report' from Uttar Pradesh, the state government on Friday began the exercise of collating district-wise data of 'unidentified dead bodies or unclaimed corpses' fished out or recovered from Ganga and its tributaries across the state.
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Ganga Utsav to connect people with govt's river cleaning mission: Jal Shakti Minister
News | Nov 05, 2020, 08:59 PM ISTThe three-day 'Ganga Utsav 2020' organised by National Mission for Clean Ganga has reached its conclusion on 4th November 2020.
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India, UK sign MoU on Water Partnership via video conferencing
News | Sep 23, 2020, 08:12 PM ISTA virtual water partnership meeting was organised between India and the United Kingdom on Tuesday to discuss ways to work together on issues pertaining to building better water infrastructure and conservation.
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Gifts received by PM to be auctioned, funds raised to be used for 'clean Ganga' project
National | Jan 22, 2019, 02:59 PM ISTThe items are currently on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art, which comes under the Ministry of Culture.
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No more discharge of sewage water from Sisamau Nala to the Ganga river
News | Dec 26, 2018, 07:18 AM ISTBig boost to 'Namami Gange', no more discharge of sewage water from Sisamau Nala to the Ganga river
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Supporters demand CBI probe into IIT professor-turned-Clean Ganga Activist GD Agarwal's death
News | Oct 12, 2018, 12:52 PM ISTSupporters demand CBI probe into IIT professor-turned-Clean Ganga Activist GD Agarwal's death
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Environmentalist GD Agarwal dies after fasting to save Ganga since June 22; PM Modi expresses grief
India | Oct 12, 2018, 12:02 AM ISTA former professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Agarwal had been demanding that steps be taken to make the Ganga ‘aviral’ (free flowing).
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Aap ki Adalat: Nitin Gadkari promises clean Ganga within a year
India | Sep 30, 2018, 02:37 PM ISTThe minister claimed that 70 to 80 per cent projects ahve been awarded but they will take at least a year to show the results.
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BJP minister Satyapal Singh courts controversy by calling for ban on immersion of ashes in Ganga
India | Dec 20, 2017, 01:18 PM ISTSingh, who was in Haridwar on Tuesday to inaugurate 34 projects related to Namami Ganga mission, argued that it was not important to immerse flowers or ashes in the Ganga to fulfil religious duty.
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Public money wasted, not a drop of Ganga cleaned: NGT
India | Feb 07, 2017, 08:21 AM ISTThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has made some strong observations regarding the ‘non-seriousness’ of the government agencies who it said are ‘only wasting public money in the name of cleaning holy river Ganga’.
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11-year-old Kanpur girl to swim 550 km to spread 'Clean Ganga' message
India | Aug 29, 2016, 01:13 PM ISTIn an inspirational bid to spread the message of 'clean Ganga', Shraddha Shukla, an 11-year-old girl from Kanpur today began her herculean 550-km swim from Kanpur and Varanasi in 70 hours. Shukla, also known as
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Clean Ganga Mission: NGT seeks expenditure details of Rs 20k cr from NMCG, issues notice to Jharkhand, Bihar and WB govts
India | Jul 26, 2016, 07:14 PM ISTThe National Green Tribunal on Tuesday sought expenditure details of the Rs 20,000 crore budget granted to National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) for cleaning and protection of Ganga. NMCG is the implementing wing
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PM Narendra Modi likely to launch work on Clean Ganga action plan mid May
India | May 09, 2016, 08:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: In line with the ruling BJP's pre-poll promise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to launch the work on 'Clean Ganga' action plan later this month, official sources said today. While
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Clean Ganga: Talks on long-term policy to be held
India | Jan 27, 2016, 11:36 PM ISTNew Delhi: A number of Union Ministries tasked with various responsibilities under Clean Ganga mission will come together on Saturday to hold parleys with heads of villages along the river to craft a long-term policy
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PM Modi's reforms, world looks differently at India: Jim Young Kim
Sep 26, 2015, 08:08 AM ISTUnited Nation: World Bank President Jim Young Kim has said reforms initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have had a huge impact on the way world looks at India and praised the progress made in
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Contribute to clean ganga, clean India programmes: Arun Jaitley
National | Sep 11, 2015, 11:56 PM ISTKollam: Noting the Ganga influences the lives of 40 per cent of Indians who live in the river's proximity, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on today called for generous contributions to the Namami Ganga and Swachh
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Centre mulls herbal medicine units on banks of river Ganga in Uttarakhand
India | Jun 10, 2015, 03:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: As part of NDA government's ambitious Clean Ganga project, Uttarakhand may soon open processing units of herbal medicines on the banks of the holy river, along with an 'Eco Task Force' of ex-servicemen
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Environmentalists for declaration of river Ganga as World Heritage
India | Apr 22, 2015, 10:30 AM ISTLucknow: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking keen interest in cleaning of Ganga, a group of environmentalists will be petitioning him to pursue with UNESCO for declaration of upper region of the holy river as
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Nitish Kumar to meet PM Modi, to discuss financial issues of Bihar
National | Mar 26, 2015, 11:37 AM ISTNew Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is slated to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at latter's official residence -- 7, RCR -- today afternoon at 12:30 pm. Kumar is expected to seek more Central