{"id":119218,"date":"2018-05-12T04:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119218"},"modified":"2018-05-12T04:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:54:22","slug":"wont-allow-any-new-hydel-project-on-ganga-nitin-gadkari-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119218","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t allow any new hydel project on Ganga: Nitin Gadkari | Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided not to approve any new hydro-power project on the Ganga. The move will help the government in its river cleaning efforts as dams which are part of such projects obstruct the ecological flow (e-flow) hampering the river&#8217;s self-cleansing ability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government won&#8217;t approve any new hydro-power project on the river Ganga,&#8221; Union water resources minister\u00a0Nitin Gadkari\u00a0told TOI.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, in this regard taken in a recent meeting at the prime minister&#8217;s office (PMO), will, however, not affect under construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>Gadkari said his ministry was also weighing new interventions to ensure that the river has adequate depth throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>Depth of the Ganga is reduced at several stretches due to continuous deposition of silt and dumping of solid waste over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Dredging is one of the options to maintain adequate depth which is required for transportation through waterways.<\/p>\n<p>The government has already launched the national waterway project for commercial navigation in the river Ganga and for this adequate depth is required to be maintained round the year. Phase-I of the project covers the\u00a0Haldia-Varanasi\u00a0stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided not to approve any new hydro-power project on the Ganga. The move will help the government in its river cleaning efforts as dams which are part of such projects obstruct the ecological flow (e-flow) hampering the river&#8217;s self-cleansing ability. &#8220;Government won&#8217;t approve any new hydro-power project on the river [&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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119218"}],"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=119218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}