Ganga action plan (GAP)

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1. GANGA ACTION PLAN Act to clean the ganga… -AADIVEER JAIN 10A

2. INDEX About gap History of ganga’s polluted present Measures took by government Measures took by individuals My opinion Acknowledgement & bibliography

3. GAP The Ganga is the largest river in India . It provides water to 40% of the population of India in 11 states. IN recent times industrialization and modernization and a bit of irresponsibleness has caused the ganga to be severely polluted. Due to all of this, the ganga action plan (or gap) was launched by  Shri Rajeev Gandhi , the then Prime Minister of India on 14 Jan. 1986 with the main objective of pollution abatement, to improve the water quality by Interception, Diversion and treatment of domestic sewage and present toxic and industrial chemical wastes from identified grossly polluting units entering in to the river. The other objectives of the Ganga Action Plan are as under. Control of non-point pollution from agricultural run off, human defecation, cattle wallowing and throwing of unburnt and half burnt bodies into the river. Research and Development to conserve the biotic, diversity of the river to augment its productivity. New technology of sewage treatment like Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and sewage treatment through afforestation has been successfully developed. Rehabilitation of soft-shelled turtles for pollution abatement of river have been demonstrated and found useful. Resource recovery options like production of methane for energy generation and use of aquaculture for revenue generation have been demonstrated. To act as trend setter for taking up similar action plans in other grossly polluted stretches in other rivers. The ultimate objective of the GAP is to have an approach of integrated river basin management considering the various dynamic inter-actions between abiotic and biotic eco-system.

4. HOW DID GANGA BECAME SO DIRTY!? CAUSES FOR THE DEGRADATION OF GANGA ARE – Human Wastes Haridwar dam Municipal waste Industrial waste Dead Bodies of humans and animals Religious rites Usually rivers have microbes in them that clean and replenish natural water in the water bodies. But after a certain period of exploiting, these microbes die. Eventually that happened with ganga. And this caused pests like mosquitoes and flys to born and carry infectious diseases. This problem has caused serious hygienic crisis, people near the ganga, who now receives contaminated, hard ganga water – that was once considered as elixir have got some serious diseases like dysentery, cholera, typhoid, hep a, gallbladder cancer and e.coli .

5. PHASES OF GANGA ACTION PLAN The ganga action plan was initiated in 2 phases and over 900 Crore rupees ($130 Million) were spent on it. PHASE 1- Launched in june 1985 To accomplish this task a total of 2061 project of pollution abatement covering 25 towns in U.P., Bihar and west Bengal were sanctioned at a cost of Rs.460 crores ($65 Million) PHASE 2- Since phase 1 didn’t cover the target, Phase 2 was launched from 1993. it included projects on the tributaries gomti . Yamuna, damodar and Mahanadi.

6. The plan was a failure due to poor administration, ignorant executions and irresponsibility with the money. Well the congress and rajiv Gandhi tried till 2013. The GAP was halted. IN 2016 THESE WERE THE NEW HIGHLIGHTS Situation worse now than in 2013, “in six cities of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal, Dissolved Oxygen (DO) declined from 2012-13 levels .” “Total coliform (a bacteria) levels in all the cities of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal was very high; ranging between six to 334 times higher than the prescribed levels .” “Specific parameters for water quality monitoring of the river Ganga have not been prescribed by National Mission for Clean Ganga .” In 2014, The bjp government allotted 3000 crores ($460 million) for ganga cleaning plan but since then the situation hasn’t been too good still. Ganga still remains dirty. INDUSTRIES STILL DUMP their waste in ganga. Religious rites still takes place Money has been pooled into it, but the government policies still remain unaffected This thus proves that corporations didn’t took the matter seriously. It’s not long before all water bodies are severely polluted. Our current situation isn’t great to , we in MP Get our waters from narmada . But our water is contaminated to – we all know we get hard water treated with chloramine, a bleaching agent. THE GANGA IS 20X times worse than narmada . Now just think what is the situation in those other states with those people. The government isn’t really hardworking and up with the technology to make the water better and seriously not in the right path to clean the water bodies. So we turn to individuals.

7. INDIVIDUAL HEROS OF WATER PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE THE ACT OF CHARITY TO CLEAN THE SEAS AND RIVERS INDIA4OCEANS, AN NGO gathered a team of 500 students to help clean the juhu , similarly afroz shah, UN Environment's Champion of the Earth started the largest beach cleanup project at juhu in 2016. SIMILARLY IN 2021, MRBEAST or jimmy Donaldson with mark rober started team seas, a charitable organization to clean the seas around north america SO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE WORKING TO CLEAN OCEANS AND WELL THINGS ARE GOING BETTER THAN IT HAD WITH GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

8. HEROS OF GANGA Swami Gyan Swaroop Sanand , an 86-year-old environmental activist from India, died on 11 October 2018, 111 days into his fast. He was protesting inaction on keeping the Ganga (also known as Ganges) River free from pollution. Swami Sanad , otherwise known as G.D. Agarwal, demanded that the government fulfill its promises, policies and programmes . He called for a free-flowing Ganga River with no illegal mining and dams, as well as a Ganga Protection Management Act. Swami Sanad had been on a diet of water and honey since June but gave it up two days before his death stating: “My fast will end with my death.” He diedfrom a cardiac arrest at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh  where he was admitted, against his will, the night before . Although his demands weren’t fulfilled till now but his spirit has risen NGOs for the cause NAMAMI GANGE IS ONE SUCH FOUNDATION WORKING FOR THE WELFARE AND REJUVENATION OF GANGA. WE HOPE THEY WILL SUCCEED IN THEIR PROJECT SO DO THE OTHERS MENTIONED BEFORE.

9. MY OPINION Well I must suggest that the problems looks really on spot and to the points. PEOPLE ARE MAKINg ganga degrade through their activities that can be avoided. Also we can see lousiness of the government, the one organization that has so much power and enough budget to make this happen. The problem of water is a real and serious situation and we must deal with it. At an individual level people do work, but the work doesn’t exactly seem to go anywhere. WE LIVE IN a modern era and I believe cleaning a natural body at this time shouldn’t be that difficult. Getting better sewage system, closing industrial waste chambers to the rivers, having better garbage disposing system, educating people about the problem planning thoroughly and executing responsibly is the way to go. I believe if the government put its focus and hardwork in the problem, they can make it happen

10. Bibliography www.mppcb.nic.in en.wikipedia.org www.slideshare.net thelogicalindian.com www.unep.org nmcg.nic.in timesofindia.indiatimes.com yourstory.com

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