River Ganga will be clean and full of water within a year, if not then I am ready to face the punishment that deems fit, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told India TV Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma in Aap ki Adalat.
During the interview, boradcast on Saturday, the Minister for Ganga Rejuvenation project said that the government has already allocated majority of the Ganga related projects and the work as afoot.
"The work has begun on 258 projects. Now we are focussing on the polluted water which falls into the river. We are not only working on Ganges, but also its tributaries like Yamuna. In Delhi, the state government has already started work on 11 out of 12 projects," Gadkari said.
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The minister claimed that 70 to 80 per cent projects have been awarded but they will take at least a year to show the results.
"I can promise you that there will be a significant improvement in Ganga waters within a year," he said, adding that soon a notification for 'Aviral Ganga' will also be issued, which aims at maintaining at least one-foot water level in the river at all times of the year.
"In the notification to be issued next week, we will block Ganga waters from certain areas to ensure that at least one to two feet of water level is maintained in March, April and May," the minister claimed.
The BJP minister said that he is ready to come back to India TV's show Aap ki Adalat next hear and accept his punishment if he fails to fulfill the promise of making Ganga clean with in the time.
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