After coming to power, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government made cleaning of the Ganga one of its top priorities. It renamed the Ministry of Water Resources as the ‘Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation’ and launched the ‘Namami Gange Programme’ “to accomplish... effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga” with an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore in its first Budget.
Since then, it has already spent more than Rs 6,100 crore on the programme. But have the ...
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