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Hundred of millions of people of India live in cities situated on the banks of the river Ganga. Many of these cities have population of over a million each and are also heavily industrialized.
#The threat to the ecosystem of Ganga caused by the sewage and industrial effluents was releasedby the Government of India in 1986. The Ganga Action Plan was launched in that year. But it has miserably failed to meet the expectations of the people and even of its planners
"Ganga Action Plan (GAP) was first launched by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. Since then, the plan has seen two extensions and an expenditure of thousands of crores of rupees. But the Ganga river has remained dirty".
The ultimate objective of the GAP is to have an approach of integrated river basin management considering the various dynamic inter-actions between abiotic and biotic eco-system.
Not withstanding some delay in the completion of the first phase of GAP it has generated considerable interest and set the scene for evolving a national approach towards replicating this program for the other polluted rivers of the country.
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