Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has noted that the number of polluted river stretches in the country increased from 150 to 302 in the past five years, indicating how rivers other than Ganga too are victims of constant neglect.
A total of 532 towns / cities fall along the polluted stretches of different rivers across the country. In comparison the Ganga river basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal have 118 such stretches.
March 27, 2015
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