{"id":119215,"date":"2018-05-12T04:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119215"},"modified":"2018-05-12T04:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:46:58","slug":"70-of-ganga-will-be-cleaned-by-may-2019-the-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119215","title":{"rendered":"\u201870% of Ganga will be cleaned by May 2019\u2019 | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari said the government will spend \u20b98,000 to \u20b910,000 crore this year to ensure that at least 70% of the Ganga will be clean by next May.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-23841159\" class=\"_yeti_done\">\n<p>The government has only spent \u20b94,500 crore since 2015 when the \u20b920,000-crore tranche for cleaning the 2,500-km long river was operationalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we have sent a note [to the Finance Ministry] for \u20b9250 crore. By next March, based on my calculation, we expect this ratio [of funds spent to funds allotted] to move to about 60% to 70%&#8230; that works to about \u20b98,000 to \u20b910,000 crore this year. Equipment is arriving, projects are being completed faster,\u201d he said at a press conference to apprise on the progress made in cleaning the river. \u201cWe expect an extremely clean river by December 2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 195 projects worth \u20b920,959 crore have been sanctioned for various activities such as sewage infrastructure, ghats and crematoria development, river-front development and river surface cleaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari said the government will spend \u20b98,000 to \u20b910,000 crore this year to ensure that at least 70% of the Ganga will be clean by next May. The government has only spent \u20b94,500 crore since 2015 when the \u20b920,000-crore tranche for cleaning the 2,500-km long river was operationalised. \u201cThis year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}