{"id":114269,"date":"2021-06-23T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114269"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:24:42","slug":"corpses-did-not-add-to-ganga-pollution-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/corpses-did-not-add-to-ganga-pollution-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpses did not add to Ganga pollution: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Do\u00a0corpses increase pollution level in Ganga?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Context:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/discuss-the-namami-gange-and-national-mission-for-clean-ganga-nmcg-programmes-and-causes-of-mixed-results-from-the-previous-schemes-what-quantum-leaps-can-help-preserve-the-river-ganga-better-than\/\">National Mission for Clean Ganga<\/a> (NMCG)\u00a0informed that the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Floating bodies are not the reason for pollution in Ganga.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the study:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"26\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"123\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The\u00a0National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)\u00a0has received a complaint from a citizen. He alleged that the disposal of bodies in and around the river would not only pollute the river but also seriously affect all those persons who are dependent on the river.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"26\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"124\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had asked the Centre and the Bihar and the Uttar Pradesh State governments to\u00a0furnish\u00a0a report\u00a0regarding\u00a0this.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"26\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"125\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)\u00a0solicit\u00a0a report from the Centre, the State Pollution Control Boards of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and the Central Water Commission\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Study results:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"27\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"126\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Data for April-June suggested that the water quality in terms of pH, DO (dissolved oxygen), BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) conformed with the bathing water quality criteria except \u201cmarginal deviations at few locations\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"27\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"127\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Thus,\u00a0they concluded that the incidents of floating bodies\u00a0do\u00a0not attribute to the pollution in Ganga.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"27\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"128\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">But the ground level study of NMCG and CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), Lucknow\u00a0is yet to\u00a0provide\u00a0their results.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">About National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG):<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"28\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"129\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">It is a body of Ministry of\u00a0Jal Shakti.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u00b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"28\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"130\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">It is the nodal agency tasked with coordinating the over \u20b920,000 crore initiative to clean the Ganga.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G7Q8MMTMN.1&amp;imageview=0\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Hindu<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do\u00a0corpses increase pollution level in Ganga?\u00a0 Context:\u00a0The\u00a0National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)\u00a0informed that the\u00a0Floating bodies are not the reason for pollution in Ganga.\u00a0 About the study:\u00a0 The\u00a0National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)\u00a0has received a complaint from a citizen. He alleged that the disposal of bodies in and around the river would not only pollute the river&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/corpses-did-not-add-to-ganga-pollution-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corpses did not add to Ganga pollution: Centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[873,263,8137,943],"class_list":["post-114269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","tag-ganga-pollution","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-pollution-and-related-issues","tag-river-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704900530},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}