NEW DELHI:
NRI billionaire business magnates in London have committed more than Rs 500 crore of investment to the rejuvenation of the polluted Ganga, as the Director General of the National Mission for Clean
Ganga U P Singh said “cremations were not to blame”.
Union minister
Nitin Gadkari, whose responsibilities include water resources, said on Wednesday, that in addition to Ravi Mehrotra and Anil Agarwal’s commitments to the sacred river, the London-based Hinduja brothers have agree to maintain the
Haridwar stretch and Prakash Lohia, chairman of
Indorama Corporation, has committed to the Kolkata section.
Lohia is from Kolkata. In India, Shiv Nadar, chairman of HCL, has taken up the Varanasi part, Gadkari, who is on a trip to London, said.
TOI photo.He explained that whilst the government had sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore towards the clean Ganges programme, the corporates would pay for their 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 project.