{"id":9727,"date":"2016-07-07T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=9724&amp;preview_id=9724"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:09:28","slug":"231-projects-under-modi-govts-namami-gange-to-be-launched-all-over-country-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=9727","title":{"rendered":"231 projects under Modi govt\u2019s \u2018Namami Gange\u2019 to be launched all over country today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>With an aim to give a major boost to Namami Gange Programme, 231 projects will be inaugurated today at various locations in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana and Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti made this announcement at a press conference in the national capital on July 6.<\/p>\n<p>She said these projects involve modernisation and redevelopment of Ghats and crematoriums, development of sewage infrastructure and treatment, afforestation, tree plantation, pilot drain project, interceptor drain project, trash skimmers and conservation of biodiversity.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2898595\" style=\"width: 769px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2898595\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2898595 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2016\/07\/m_id_377896_uma_bharti-759.jpg\" alt=\"Swachh bharat, narendra modi, pm modi, modi, uma bharti, namami gange, ganges cleaning project, india news\" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2898595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti made the announcement at a press conference in New Delhi.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201c47 such projects will be inaugurated at various locations in Dehradun, Garhwal, Tehri garhwal, Rudraprayag, Haridwar and Chamoli districts of Uttarakhand,\u201d Bharti said.The main function will be held at Haridwar which will be attended by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Union Ministers <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/profile\/politician\/nitin-gadkari\/\">Nitin Gadkari<\/a>, Choudhary Birender Singh, Mahesh Sharma and Uma Bharti.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Ganga Gram Yojana, Bharti said 400 villages along the river will be developed as Ganga Gram in phase-I.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen IITs have adopted five villages each for development as Ganga Grams. She said training for 328 sarpanchs was completed at Sichawal in Punjab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/231-projects-under-modi-govts-namami-gange-to-be-launched-all-over-country-today-2898592\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">231 projects under Modi govt\u2019s \u2018Namami Gange\u2019 to be launched all over country today | The Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an aim to give a major boost to Namami Gange Programme, 231 projects will be inaugurated today at various locations in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana and Delhi. Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti made this announcement at a press conference in the national capital on July 6. She said these projects [&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\/9727"}],"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=9727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}