NEW DELHI: NRI billionaire business magnates in London have committed greater than Rs 500 crore of funding to the rejuvenation of the polluted Ganga, because the Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga U P Singh stated "cremations were not to blame".
Union minister Nitin Gadkari, whose responsibilities come with water resources, stated on Wednesday, that along with Ravi Mehrotra and Anil Agarwal's commitments to the sacred river, the London-based Hinduja brothers have conform to care for the Haridwar stretch and Prakash Lohia, chairman of Indorama Corporation, has committed to the Kolkata segment. Lohia is from Kolkata. In India, Shiv Nadar, chairman of HCL, has taken up the Varanasi phase, Gadkari, who is on a commute to London, stated.
He defined that whilst the federal government had sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore towards the clean Ganges programme, the corporates would pay for his or her stretches themselves as "total charity cause" and he appealed to "all Indian companies and NRIs across the world" to participate. The costs vary between Rs100 and Rs 200 crore per challenge.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari, whose responsibilities come with water resources, stated on Wednesday, that along with Ravi Mehrotra and Anil Agarwal's commitments to the sacred river, the London-based Hinduja brothers have conform to care for the Haridwar stretch and Prakash Lohia, chairman of Indorama Corporation, has committed to the Kolkata segment. Lohia is from Kolkata. In India, Shiv Nadar, chairman of HCL, has taken up the Varanasi phase, Gadkari, who is on a commute to London, stated.
He defined that whilst the federal government had sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore towards the clean Ganges programme, the corporates would pay for his or her stretches themselves as "total charity cause" and he appealed to "all Indian companies and NRIs across the world" to participate. The costs vary between Rs100 and Rs 200 crore per challenge.
UK NRIs commit Rs 500cr for clean Ganga plan
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