TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reviewed execution of his pet programme for cleaning river Ganga and is understood to have instructed officials to ensure its timely completion.
Today’s meeting on ‘Namami Gange’ programme assumed significance as it was the first since the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the river’s two key basin states whose previous governments were accused by the Centre of not cooperating fully.
During the meeting, the prime minister is learnt to have instructed officials working on the ambitious project to ensure involvement of the people so that it doesn’t remain only a government programme, official sources said.
He also directed the officials to ensure proper dissemination of information related to the project, they said. Modi’s instructions came amid reports that the implementation of the programme was lagging behind schedule and that the government was faced with precipice, particularly in view of the October 2018 deadline set for cleaning the river.
