New Delhi: The NDA government on Wednesday asserted before the Supreme Court that PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious clean Ganga plan has a “vision” to achieve the goal of aviral (uninterrupted) and nirmal (clean) river.
“The ultimate (plan and target) is clean and continuous flow of Ganga. Aviral and nirmal flow of Ganga,” solicitor general Ranjit Kumar submitted before a bench headed by Justice T.S. Thakur. The SG made the statement in the wake of remarks by the bench that the Centre was “visionless” in its mission to clean the “holiest of its holy rivers”.
“You are unable to tell about the vision for the last three hearings. We want to know what is the ultimate,” the bench asked SG. Mr Kumar said, “118 towns have been identified to be focused and 1,649 gram panchayats to be focused and the focus today is that we have to achieve the target.”
