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Centre will implement a four-pronged programme under which 1,600 villages along Ganga river will be made filth free by October.
Union Minister Uma Bharti said while speaking on the sidelines of ‘Swachh Ganga-Gramin Sahbhagita’, a national-level consultation programme organised in New Delhi yesterday for heads of villages located along the river banks.
She said, the government will implement the package in 1,600 village panchayat headquarters along the river banks within the next six months and complete the first phase of Ganga cleaning by October this year.
The Water Resources Minister said the second phase will be attained in four years after that in which 6,000 villages will be taken up for the programme.
The event, considered to be the first attempt to rope in villagers in the ‘Clean Ganga’ mission, saw participation of around 1,200 panchayat heads.