Yamuna banks covered with filth a mockery of 'Clean India' mission

Yamuna banks covered with filth a mockery of 'Clean India' mission

                                                                                   

   

Broken earthen pots, rotting flowers, tattered pieces of cloth and sodden coloured paper litiered the banks of the Yamuna on Sunday, a day after hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga were immersed into the already polluted river to mark the end of Durga pooja in the capital.

The sight seemed to mock at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that aims to create a "clean India" in the next five years and was launched October 2 with much fanfare all over the country.

A \isit to one of the ghats revealed the utter disregard to the appeals made by the Prime Minister as part of the Clean India campaign as piles of garbage covered the banks of the river. A large quantity of insoluble waste like wood, plastic, and toxic material floated in the river while empty packets of chips, biscuits and plastic bottles were strewn around the bank. There was foul stench in the while hordes of stray dogssniffed ihegarbagepilesforsweetsandfood. "The filth will remain here for at least a few days before the ghats are cleaned," lamna Singh, a 17-year-old boatman ai the Kaliiuli Kunj river bank, one of the six spots where the authorities had permitted idol immersion, told IANS. "It's the same story   every   year   and    people

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