Traditional and modern methods for conservation of the river Ganga?

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Vishal Dhawan From APJ school sheikh sarai here

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The government of India has allegedly backtracked from its assurance to fund a Rs. 53 crore innovative sewage treatment plant to clean up river Ganga, asking activists and scientists to scale down the plant from 37 MLD to 20MLD citing high costs.

This, despite the government having

already spent a total of Rs. 70 crore - Rs. 30 crore to pump sewage and lay a pipeline from Nagwa nullah to Ramana village in Uttar Pradesh, and Rs 40 crore in acquiring land for the plant, says Veer Bhadra Mishra, president of Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) and former head of the Civil Engineering Department at ITBHU Varanasi.

"The sewage outflow from Nagwa nullah is 40MLD. What purpose will a 20 MLD plant serve? It will fail. And why does the government want us to spend more money again in preparing a DPR for the 20MLD plant?"

Interestingly, the government's own committees - the National River Conservation Department and the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) of the National Ganga River Basin Authority in 2010 gave the plant a go-ahead with respect to its technicality.

SMF, a registered society in Varanasi, prepared a comprehensive plan to reduce the flow of sewage from Varanasi city into the river. The plan was accepted by the Varanasi Nagar Nigam unanimously, but in 2001, during the second phase of Ganga Action Plan, an alternative conventional plan was implemented by the National River Conservation Department (NRCD).