{"id":16528,"date":"2016-08-15T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=16525&amp;preview_id=16525"},"modified":"2016-08-15T19:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:48:23","slug":"clean-ganga-not-possible-unless-flow-is-uninterrupted-nitish-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=16528","title":{"rendered":"Clean Ganga not possible unless flow is uninterrupted: Nitish Kumar |Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"div_storyContent\">\n<p>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said a clean Ganga would not be possible unless its flow is uninterrupted.<\/p>\n<p>In his Independence Day address at Gandhi Maidan, Kumar said River Ganga\u2019s depth has reduced following silt deposition due to construction of a dam at Farakka (known as Farakka barrage in West Bengal).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always raise the issue before the Prime Minister in every meeting of Ganga River Basin Authority,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born at Bakhtiarpur in Patna district. We used to go to take bath in the Ganga. There was wonderful flow with clean water then. We used to take a bucket of water to home for drinking purposes,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar claimed that he had been raising the issue of \u2018uninterrupted flow\u2019 without which it would be difficult to maintain a river\u2019s cleanliness. \u201cWe cannot make it clean without ensuring its adequate flow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Due to siltation (a type of water pollution), water spreads to adjoining areas if there is a sudden increase in flow, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said,16 Bihar districts received less than normal rainfall, so far this year, on the other hand, several other districts were affected by floods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said a clean Ganga would not be possible unless its flow is uninterrupted. In his Independence Day address at Gandhi Maidan, Kumar said River Ganga\u2019s depth has reduced following silt deposition due to construction of a dam at Farakka (known as Farakka barrage in West Bengal). \u201cI always [&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":[1934],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528"}],"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=16528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}