The prime minister may have expressed his condolences but — this is telling — several letters written by the activist to Narendra Modi, demanding urgent interventions based on his concerns about the river, had gone unanswered. In India, elected representatives cutting across political lines have remained indifferent to the ecological crisis that is threatening to obliterate the nation’s natural resources. Mr Modi is doubly complicit in this criminal negligence. Before storming to power, the prime minister had made the cleaning of the Ganga one of his primary electoral promises. Since then, Namami Gange — an integrated conservation mission that is supposedly one of the flagship programmes of the Centre — has made little progress.

Source: The Telegraph October 15, 2018 21:11 UTC