Stop polluting Ganga or shut shop: Uma Bharti
Government is now serious about river Ganga and directed the polluting industries to set up online effluent monitoring system by 31 st march next year. This tough message to polluting units is said by water resources minister Uma Bharti. "If the child (industry) would suck mother's (Ganga) blood, she would prefer the mother to survive", said Bharti. Her remarks came after several rounds of consultation with representatives of polluting industries. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar and many experts including Vinod Tare, coordinator of IIT Consortium that is preparing the Ganga River Basin Management Plan and R K Pachauri, director general of TERI and chairman of the UN's IPCC — attended the consultations and pitched for quick action to save the river. The online effluent monitoring will bring the transparency in the process of monitoring. As per the new system, the industries are required to install "continuous effluent and emission monitoring devices"