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Now, IITs roped in for clean-Ganga plan
After two Ganga Action Plans failed to deliver the goods, seven major IITs of the country have joined hands to find ways to clean up the national river.
After perusing a report submitted by the seven IITs, namely IIT Kanpur, Mumbai, Guwahati, Delhi, Kharagpur, Chennai and Roorkee, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has asked them to prepare a work plan for National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in the next 18 months.
IIT-K Director Sanjay Govind Dhande has been appointed co-ordinator between the ministry and IITs, while Vinod Tare, professor in the Civil Engineering Department of IIT-K has been named convenor for the project.
Dhande told The Indian Express: “GAP was launched in 1985, but the project failed to bring down the pollution level of the national river, therefore the Union Environment and Forests ministry decided to give an opportunity to IITs to prepare a work plan for NGRBA.”
Source: Indian Express