CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -UP CM Yogi Adityanath and the then Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat launched the yatra from Bijnor, a place where Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh. The aim of the yatra is to promote bio-diversity and to make the villages situated on the banks of the holy river more developed and prosperous.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Namami Gange Programme’, is an Integrated Conservation Mission, approved as ‘Flagship Programme’ by the Union Government in June 2014 with budget outlay of Rs. 20, 000 Crore to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga.

Detailed explanation-3: -Work on execution of some of the projects under the Namami Gange plan of the Central Government’s National Mission for Clean Ganga has begun in Haridwar.

Detailed explanation-4: -Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission, approved as a ‘Flagship Programme’ by the Union Government in June 2014 to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga.

Detailed explanation-5: -Under Namami Gange comprehensive set of interventions in the areas of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, river front management (ghats and crematoria development), e-flow, afforestation, biodiversity conservation and Public Participation etc.