Faith is long over and all that remains now are mounds of filth.
The Maha Kumbh that was so pompously organized by the Yogi Adityanath Government from January to March this year at a cost of over Rs 4,200 crore has generated more than 2,000 tonnes of unsegregated solid waste.
The event also championed the concept of ‘Swachh Bharat’ that prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare it the cleanest ever Kumbh held in Prayagraj.
According to reports coming in, the unsegregated solid waste was dumped into the city’s solid waste treatment plant at Baswar village which has been closed since September 2018.
Retired judge Arun Tandon, chairperson of the supervisory committee set up by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to review how Kumbh had affected the Ganga, has said in its report that the waste lies in the open, untreated and uncovered.