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Pollution strangles Ganga, India’s sacred lifeline
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The Indian Express
Spatial extent of the basinThe Ganga river basin spans approximately 10,86,000 sq km across India, Nepal, Tibet (China), and Bangladesh.
The basin can be divided into three stretches:— Upper Ganga Basin: From the origin to Narora Barrage.
According to the India-WRIS report, the Ganga basin has 478 major and medium irrigation projects and 39 hydro-electric projects.
In 2009, the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) was established to coordinate planning, financing and monitoring of conservation programmes.
Despite several government programs like GAP-I (the Ganga Action Plan-I), GAP-II, the National Ganga River Basin Authority, and Namami Gange, why have results in cleaning the Ganga remained limited?