New Delhi: Three non-official members in the PMchaired National Ganga River Basin Authority, including ‘waterman’ Rajendra Singh, resigned from the panel protesting against the government’s inaction to tackle pollution in the river.
The trio – Rajendra Singh of Tarun Bharat Sangh, Ravi Chopra of Peoples’ Science Movement and R H Siddiqi, a retired professor of the Aligarh Muslim University – have said that the government’s apathy towards the continuing fast byProfessor G D Agarwal on the banks of Ganga in Varanasi has led them to quit the board.
“We are sending this letter of resignation as we are deeply concerned and worried about the fast deteriorating health condition of Professor G D Agarwal, an eminent scientist who served with distinction at IIT-Kanpur and Central Pollution Control Board. He has been consistently campaigning for several years to save the river Ganga. He had undertaken the fast on January 14, 2012, and has even stopped taking water from March 8, 2012. He is at present sitting at the bank of Ganga at Varanasi. His health is extremely critical. We have been requesting the Government to immediately intervene but no action has been taken so far,” they cited.
Criticizing the lack of action by the authority that was set up with much fanfare about a year ago, they wrote, “We may humbly point out that though the authority has been constituted nearly three years back but it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years in spite of our repeated requests. It is also on record that no worthwhile action has been taken by the authority on any of the critical issues concerning the river Ganga.”
The trio – Rajendra Singh of Tarun Bharat Sangh, Ravi Chopra of Peoples’ Science Movement and R H Siddiqi, a retired professor of the Aligarh Muslim University – have said that the government’s apathy towards the continuing fast byProfessor G D Agarwal on the banks of Ganga in Varanasi has led them to quit the board.
“We are sending this letter of resignation as we are deeply concerned and worried about the fast deteriorating health condition of Professor G D Agarwal, an eminent scientist who served with distinction at IIT-Kanpur and Central Pollution Control Board. He has been consistently campaigning for several years to save the river Ganga. He had undertaken the fast on January 14, 2012, and has even stopped taking water from March 8, 2012. He is at present sitting at the bank of Ganga at Varanasi. His health is extremely critical. We have been requesting the Government to immediately intervene but no action has been taken so far,” they cited.
Criticizing the lack of action by the authority that was set up with much fanfare about a year ago, they wrote, “We may humbly point out that though the authority has been constituted nearly three years back but it has met only twice. There has been no meeting for the last one and a half years in spite of our repeated requests. It is also on record that no worthwhile action has been taken by the authority on any of the critical issues concerning the river Ganga.”
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