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With Clean Ganga Project Not Delivering, PM Narendra Modi Intervenes: Report
Source: NDTV, Date: , 2017
Source: NDTV, April, 2017 :- India's $3 billion plan to clean the Ganga
is badly behind schedule with large stretches contaminated by toxic waste and
sewage, forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene, said Reuters, based
on government officials and documents that the news agency said it had seen.
Much of the money allocated to the project, a flagship initiative for the Modi
government, remains unspent, say officials from the National Mission for Clean
Ganga (NMCG), a government body overseeing the project, according to Reuters.
In a presentation to a top aide of the Prime Minister in late January, NMCG
officials marked almost the entire length of the river within three big circles
to highlight "pollution in river Ganga", said the Reuters report.
Read More:http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-narendra-modi-intervenes-as-clean-ganga-project-makes-slow-progress-report-1678019
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