Clean Ganga
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Uma Bharti urges PSUs to join clean Ganga mission
National | Jan 11, 2015, 08:13 AM ISTNew Delhi: Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti Saturday urged public sector undertakings to join the clean Ganga mission of the government.She exhorted the PSUs to come forward and contribute
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Ganga will transform in five years: Prakash Javadekar
National | Jan 04, 2015, 08:34 AM ISTIndore: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday expressed confidence that under the Centre's 'Clean Ganga' campaign, the river will become clean and its flow will be unhindered in the next five years."The Clean Ganga
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Uma Bharti defends expenditure on Ganga meet
National | Nov 07, 2014, 04:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti today defended the expenditure of nearly Rs 44 lakh on a Clean Ganga meeting here, saying the money went to a government agency for organising the event and
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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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Cleansing Ganga: Govt to focus on polluting drainage systems
India | Oct 27, 2014, 06:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: Gearing up to cleanse river Ganga, the government today decided to initiate a slew of measures, including focusing on polluting drainage systems and to establish Ganga Vahini for spreading message of its rejuvenation.While
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Contributions to Swachh Bharat, Clean Ganga come under CSR ambit
Oct 27, 2014, 10:11 AM ISTNew Delhi: In a bid to invite corporate funds for its flagship schemes, like Swachh Bharat and Clean Ganga initiatives, the government has decided that corporate contributions towards these two key initiatives will now be
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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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Government to seek Facebook help to promote education
Oct 10, 2014, 07:56 AM ISTNew Delhi: The government is expected take up with social networking giant Facebook social sector issues like education and empowerment of the girl child, female foeticide and 'Clean Ganga' campaign and seek its help in
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Industries along Ganga should adopt self-regulatory measures: Uma
National | Oct 09, 2014, 07:25 AM ISTNew Delhi: Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday said industries along the Ganga river can contribute a lot in the mission to clean the river by adopting self-regulatory measures to check pollution.Addressing a
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Finding alternate ways for waste disposal key to clean Ganga: Netherlands
India | Oct 01, 2014, 10:53 AM ISTRotterdam: As India gears up for the gigantic task of cleaning up the Ganges river, the Netherlands, which has vast experience in river rejuvenation, has suggested that finding alternate ways for waste disposal is key
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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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Government considering dedicated university on Ganga rejuvenation
National | Sep 20, 2014, 09:20 AM ISTNew Delhi: To give an impetus to the Ganga rejuvenation programme, the Ministry of Water Resources is considering setting up a dedicated university for the purpose."I do not have a definite answer now. Many things
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PM Narendra Modi calls for making rejuvenation of Ganga a mass movement
India | Sep 12, 2014, 07:18 AM ISTNew Delhi: Emphasising on the need to make Ganga rejuvenation a mass movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the first priority of this mission should be to stop fresh generation of pollutants.Chairing the first
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Government showing no urgency to clean Ganga, observes Supreme Court
India | Aug 13, 2014, 05:51 PM ISTNew Delhi: Taking a potshot at the government on cleaning the holy river Ganga, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that ‘no urgency was seen in protecting the river'."You (government) showed urgency in matters where