The Uttar Pradesh Government has chalked out a Rs 10 crore plan to cleanse the Ganga Ghats in the State with the help of CCTVs and state-of-the art gadgets.
The cleaning and monitoring plan will be executed in phases, with work to be first rolling out from religious hotspot Kashi. Around 200 CCTVs and best of state-of-the-art gadgets will be deployed to cleanse and monitor sanitation work at the ghats which are thronged by thousands of devotees every day.
The officials posted at the Ganga Namami Department of the Yogi Government will monitor the activities sitting in their offices in Lucknow through the computers connected with the 200 CCTVs installed on the Ghats.
“The 200 CCTV cameras to monitor the safety and cleanliness of the Ghats will be directly connected to the computers of officials associated with the Namami Gange project at Lucknow, the capital of the State,” said an official from the State Government.
The task is in keeping with the promise made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State Chief Minister Yogi who have promised to make Ganga incessant and clean.
Not only the ghats, efforts are already being undertaken to keep cleanse the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi so as to make it a role model.
For executing this mammoth task, the UP Government has already started the process of selection of an agency.
This time along with cleaning workers, modern machines will also be deployed on the Ghats.
The waste released from the Ganga Ghats will be collected into these machines to be recycled to ensure that the garbage does not again flow into the water and spoil ghat on the bank of the river.
After 79 ghats of Kashi, the Namami Gange department is also working on a plan to rejuvenate the cleaning system of 19 ghats of Prayagraj, 20 in Bithur, 21 of Kanpur Nagar, 27 ghats of Mathura and Vrindavan. “With the completion of the job at Kashi, work will be started at other ghats as well,” said the official.