The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)’s next target is to pace up the cleanliness process in the tributaries of the Ganga in the next five years, Jal Shakti Secretary Pankaj Kumar said.
NMCG has cadres like ‘Ganga Prehri’ (Guardians of Ganga) and ‘Ganga Doot’. They are trained volunteers who work among the local communities to create public awareness as to how crucial the cleanliness of the river is to keep it alive.”
The upper portion of Ganga stem in Uttarakhand has already been cleaned. Now the work is going on in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. In the process we are also targeting ‘ghats’ of major cities for modernising them. This all would need a mass movement as rivers and their surroundings cannot be kept clean without help from the masses.