New Delhi, Oct 21 () In a bid to actualise the dream of a `nirmal` and `aviral` Ganga, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said Sunday the government is looking to complete about 200 projects for ghats and crematoria by March 2019. Also, the Centre is taking various measures to ensure ecological flow or the minimum quantity of water at different stretches of the Ganga, he said. `A total of 227 projects have been taken up for the Ganga for sewage infrastructure, ghats and crematoria, river-front development, river-surface cleaning and bio-diversity conservation, among others, at a cost of Rs 22,374 crore,` Gadkari, who holds Ganga rejuvenation and water resources portfolio among others, told in an...
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