New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the Central government’s initiative ‘Namami Gange’ has enhanced the quality of water of Ganga.
Shah was speaking at a ceremony to receive the participants of the ‘Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan’, a month-long exploratory open-water rafting and kayaking expedition, covering 2,510 kilometers from Devprayag in Uttarakhand to Ganga Sagar in West Bengal.
Shah said the project to clean Ganga has been a success and the government will launch similar initiatives to clean other rivers in the country in coordination with the respective state governments, quoted PTI.
“We probably had forgotten to preserve and protect Ganga, that is like our mother, over the years. But, the Namami Gange mission launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 has brought about a lot of change in the quality of Ganga water, Shah said.
People who visited the ‘kumbh mela’, held in Prayagraj last year, bear testimony to this fact, he said.
