Laying stress on the afforestation work being done in
Ganga river basins in Uttar Pradesh, Ranjan said: "We have just planted 4,000 varieties of traditional species of river
Ganga and this area is ready with 22 lakh trees planted in this season.
The meeting approved a 400-bed special hospital in Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital for children and their mothers, besides launch of a master training programme for improving the ultrasonic facilities for gynae and other departments of Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital.
The 86-year old former IIT-Kanpur professor, Agrawal had been on hunger strike since June 22 for a pollution-free and uninterrupted flow in the
Ganga.
Government recently launched the ' Namami Gange' programme on the banks of the
Ganga in Uttrakhand when 250 projects worth Rs 1,500 crore were launched simultaneously under the ' Namami Gange' project.
Jajmau may well be the single biggest source of pollution of the
Ganga, but there are many others.
Meanwhile, volunteers of the
Ganga Bachao Andolan (Save
Ganga Movement) led by Ramji Tripathi began a sitin to protest dumping of the dead in the
Ganga, which they said, was polluting the river.
O
Ganga will bring together the distinctive elements of music, poetry and literature that flourished along the banks of
Ganga from the ancient times till the present.
I wrote to
Ganga in Kuala Lumpur, supplying my itinerary.
The
Ganga delta regions are endemically prone to As contamination in groundwater.