Centre To SC: Cleaning Ganga To Take 18 Years, Big Money

NEW DELHI: After being rapped by the Supreme Court for its approach to clean the Ganga, the Narendra Modi government has placed before it a blueprint of short-, medium- and long-term measures that are spread over 18 years and need thousands of crores of investment to restore the glory of the river.

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government filed that it had identified 118 towns on the banks of the Ganga as a first target to achieve total sanitation, including water-waste treatment and solid-waste management.

“The plan envisages phase-wise timelines in terms of short- (three years), medium- (five years) and long-term (ten years and more) periods,” the affidavit filed in the Supreme Court said.

It said the timelines for the completion of ongoing projects had been prepared after consulting five Ganga-basin states primarily responsible for the implementation of the projects for the rejuvenation of the 2,500-kilometre Ganga.

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