{"id":40713,"date":"2017-02-23T16:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40713"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T11:09:40","slug":"varanasi-ganga-ghats-exemplified-skymet-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40713","title":{"rendered":"Varanasi Ganga ghats exemplified &#8211; skymet Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until a few years back, Ganga water quality was deteriorating due to immense pollution levels. It was after May 2014, when the \u2018Clean Ganga Campaign\u2019 or \u2018<em>Namami Gange Project\u2019<\/em> as was termed came into being. The project was led by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister himself with the combined efforts of the Varanasi municipal corporation and the Centre\u2019s National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG).<span id=\"ad\"><\/span><br \/>\nThe project emphasizes on cleaning the river water along with putting efforts on cleaning the 84-odd famed Ghats of the meditative city. The constructional changes that this traditional city is undergoing also brought dust that fills the air settle down in the openings of these so many Ghats.<br \/>\nAs of now, the Ghats have started exemplifying their best with modern stainless steel dustbins found on the paths. However, there still are some patches of standing urine or cattle dung found on the Ghats, but most of them have got transformation from the filthy and spoiled Ghats to walkable public spaces.<br \/>\nCentral Pollution Control Board still states that Ganga\u2019s toxicity levels continue to stay risky due to the presence of high fecal coliform levels and the only solution to this being stopping and treating sewage. The water is still not pollution free. Thus, it is advised by the authority to walk along the Ghats but not to take bath in order to avoid the stinking feel while taking a dip.<br \/>\n<em>Image Credit: outlookindia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until a few years back, Ganga water quality was deteriorating due to immense pollution levels. It was after May 2014, when the \u2018Clean Ganga Campaign\u2019 or \u2018Namami Gange Project\u2019 as was termed came into being. The project was led by the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister himself with the combined efforts of the Varanasi municipal corporation and [&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\/40713"}],"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=40713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}