Sentence examples for ganges cleanup from inspiring English sources
So, is a Ganges cleanup worth the trouble?
In a damning 2007 report on the shortcomings of the first Ganges cleanup, the environmentalist Rakesh Jaiswal lamented that "environmental concerns in India continue to be the burden of a few green crusaders".
Most of the money for the Ganges cleanup will go to the authorities of those states, and of dozens of grimy towns, for the construction of sewage treatment plants and other infrastructure.
Two months after Modi was elected, he announced his most ambitious cleanup initiative: Namami Gange, or Obeisance to the Ganges.
The statement also listed construction of high-speed railways and other transport systems, cleanup of the Ganges and other rivers, rural development and development of "smart cities" as areas where the two countries could co-operate.
Japan helped to finance a cleanup project in the Yamuna River, the largest tributary to the Ganges, in 1993.
It joins the Ganges northeast of Munger.
The success of Modi's cleanup effort will ultimately depend not on Uma Bharti, or even on Modi, but on less visible bureaucrats such as Shashi Shekhar, the water-resources secretary in Bharti's ministry, who is charged with carrying out Namami Gange.
He swims in the ashy Ganges.
