Pollution assessment: river Ganga

Abstract

"The water quality data collected and collated by Central Pollution Control Board under National Water Quality Monitoring Programme and Assessment of sources of Pollution is presented in this treatise. This report also provides insight to the contribution of pollution from River Kali and River Ramganga. The cooperation extended by State Pollution Control Boards of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal in collecting and collating the data is acknowledged. The data presented in this report has been assessed, processed and compiled by Sh. Vishal Gandhi, Scientist, ‘C’, Sh. R M Bhardwaj, Scientist ‘D’, Sh.A.K.Sinha, Scientist ‘D’ and Ms. Garima Dublish, Research Associate under the supervision of Sh. J S Kamyotra, Member Secretary. We hope, the information contained in the report would be useful to the concerned authorities, academic institutions, researchers and others stakeholders involved in mission clean Ganga.