Kumbh festival for incarnation of their sins by their strengthen believe through mere dip, inside the holy water of Ganga Maata.

If officers of the Pollution Control Board are asked to collect the sample under rules and industries/manufactures are asked to display & air quality testing results in their officers, it shall make clear the level of pollution induced by the industries and qualities of pollution to be removed form the system. This shall not only help in the pollution abatement but will also check exploitation of the organizations. 21. Cremation and disposal of dead bodies add another dimention of pollution. It is recorded that about 23000 to 32000dead bodies are burnt every year on two burning ghats of Varanasi named Harish Chandra and Manikarnika with the help of 8 – 10x 103 tons fire woods. During cremation of the dead bodies, 350 – 480x 108 Kcal Energy is consumed. It is also recorded that about 200 – 300 tons ash content and 140 – 200 tons half burnt flesh contents are released to holy river Ganga every from the cremation ground. Due to religious believe about 3000 human and 6000 animals dead bodies and huge quantity of minerals are also added to the river. 22. RAMNAGAR INDUSTRIAL AREA: Toxicants released from Ram Nagar Industrial estate and the town is an upstream discharge. S. No. Parameter Value 1- pH 8.65 2- Ec(umhoc cm-1) 1040 3- Total Alkalinity (mgL-1) 670 4- Acidity (mgL-1) 76.5 5- DO (mgL-1) 2.35 6- BOD(mgL-1) 310 7- COD (mgL-1) 767 8- Sulphate (mgL-1) 209.3 9- Chloride (mgL-1) 102.49 10- Nitrate –N (mgL-1) 2.64 11- Phosphate (mgL-1) 10.6 12- Potassium (mgL-1) 38.33 13- Iron (ugL-1) 14.37 14- Copper (ugL-1) 12.5 15- Zinc (ugL-1) 11.67 16- Lead (ugL-1) 20.24 17- Cadmium (ugL-1) 18.44 18- Chromium (ugL-1) 23.53 19- Total Coliform (MON) 14 x 105 Average of 52 samples 1997-------Total Sewage generated : 175 MLD-------Arrangement for Sewage Treatment – Dinapur – 100 MLD---- DLW – 12 MLD LONG TERM PROPOSAL Treatment Plants and Turtles Lessen Pollution Five thousand years ago the Ganga was not the river of choice in India. The Saraswati was the river, plentifully extolled in the Vedas, whereas the Ganga is mentioned only once. But due to climatic and geological changes the Saraswati river gradually dried up to a stream, then disappeared. The Ganga assumed preeminent sacred stature and the lore of its water's purifying and healing powers water failed through Hindu history. The high country Ganga deep in the granite folds of the Himalayas still runs with its emerald color of purity and cleanliness. But down in the factory-laden and urbanized plains the Ganga runs brownish pea-green with silt and pollution: sewage, industrial waste and corpses. To tackle the pollution, experts are farming giant snapping turtles to eat corpses, building massive sewage treatment plants and sewage diversion systems, and getting tough with polluting businesses. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi brewed up the Ganges Action Plan in 1986, pouring US$ 140 million into one of the most demanding river-cleanup projects undertaken in the world. The goal is to make the river's 1,568-mile length visually and chemically clean enough for fearless sacred bathing and other nonpolluting river activity. Standing on the shore of year 1993, many sewage treatment plants are operational, and the Ganga Directorate claims a significant reduction in the river's bacterial count. By 1994 there are supposed to be 35 plants. It is an urgent endeavor. By the year 2028 India's population is expected 10 have doubled, putting enormous pressure on the waterways. Taking a dip at the ghat edging the Ganga at Banaras - Hinduism's most sacred and oldest city - Dr. Veer Bhadra Mishra jokes that he hasn't been chomped into by a snapping turtle yet, possibly mistaking his still alive legs for a cadaver. Mishra, a professor of hydrologic engineering at Banaras Hindu University and a priest at one of Banaras' temples, performs his daily ablution in the Ganga dutifully, but not without squirming a bit at the river's foulness. Two of his disciples wade into the water before him, attempting to clear away foam and debris. He doesn't drink the water. He loves the Ganga dearly, believes in its sanctity, but is also equally committed to its salvation from toxic Hades, Mishra - who received the UNEP's Global 500 award for environmental service - has started his own cleanup-the-cleanup campaign. He disputes the Ganga Directorate's figures of the river project's first-phase purity, and is demanding a new system of pollution evaluation. Using his own water quality measurements along the 5-mile stretch of bathing ghats at Banares, Mishra gets figures of biochemical oxygen demand (a toxicity scale) that are twice that of the governments. He also urged the government to adopt a bacterial count measurement. Mishra notes that people bathing in the river add to its bacterial count. In an unwitting irony he says. "People should take showers before they bathe in the Ganga for spiritual purification." North of Banaras is another concern of Mishra's: new housing developments. Despite policing of the Ganga shoreline through Banaras, dumping of waste still gushes in huge quantities. Banaras is a city of 1 million with 1 million pilgrims bustling in each year. Of 655 million gallons of waste water produced every day, only 436 million gallons are treated. But not all of Banaras' citizens or pilgrims are worried about pollution. C.L. Pandey, a priest at the Kashi Vishvanath Temple, says a dip in the Ganga "gets rid of illness and infection. Even the breeze from the Ganga washes sins away." But Pandey does admit the river is dirty. And one last bit of newer technology - electric crematoriums - is helping to reduce the half-burnt corpse problem. They do a complete job of burning, cost 10% of the wood-fueled pyre and are becoming extremely popular despite fears they would be ignored. NINJA Turtles Are there Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles swashbuckling in the Ganga river or Banaras sewers? Or did the Ganga pollution turn turtles into mutant ninjas? Anybody who's seen the movie and seen giant snapping turtles swimming around Banaras is going to say, "Cawabunga." In one of the most snappy and controversial efforts to rid the Ganga of partially cremated bodies (or whole bodies illegally dumped up stream, thousands of 3-foot long snapping turtles have been bred to devour the problem. Out of the original US$ 140 million allocated for Ganga cleanup. US$ 32 million alone have gone into turtle farms outside Banaras. There are about 20,000 to 30,000 bodies cremated in Banaras every year and thousands more float in from up river. Since 1990, 24,000 turtles have been released. The assistant manager of the farm says they are raised on a diet of dead fish from infancy, conditioning them to go for rotten flesh in the river, but not for living bodies. When people bring a body in a bag, the turtles charge up to the shore and sometimes drag the bag off. No bitings have been reported. But there are still corpses daily floating on by. That the U.N. declaration on the rights to development may include the whole spectrum of civil, religious, culture, economic, political and social process. The adherences to a sustainable development principal are a sign quo non-for the maintenance of the symbiotic balance. Thus, the concept of intergenerational equity, public trust doctrine and precautionary principles are the ingredients of our environmental jurisprudence. 23. That the Large equality of static water provides fertile breeding grounds for disease – carrying vectors. Taking timely action within its frameworks may mitigate the disaster management. 24. The human rights people and environmental activists have approach to the Hon’ble Court through Public Interest Litigation to protect the interest of the general public. The upstream environmental and economical impacts are: - 1. Soil Erosion, 2. Micro-Climatic Changes, 3. Loss of Flora and Fauna, 4. Changes in Spawning Grounds, 5. Land slips, situation and sedimentation, 6. The water logging and solirity. 7. Impact on aquatic ecosystem. Our constitutional democracy may enshrine the concept of welfare states, for which we have to strive or mol to from Vedic times which is – “Let all be happy, let all be sin free, let everyone see good in everything and there should be no suffering anywhere.”- (Benefit of all and happiness of all). In the march of progress, the humblest and weakest should not be left behind. Taking a fish from a river and putting it to an aquarium, where it may survive, but it can never be happy. 25. Thus, the mere suggestions and measurements to protect the water of river Ganga from pollution may not have the desirable result for having the sanctity of river Ganga being protected amongst those who comes to have a dip at Sangam during Kumbh festival after taking the bath from outside, as there body secretion of sweat may not pollute river Ganga. Thus, apart from the threats of series of irreversible damage. We should also endeavor to protect the rights of conscience, faith and religion, guaranteed under article 25 to these pilgrimage comprising of a segmentation of more than 5 crores of population visiting Allahabad during Kumbh festival for incarnation of their sins by their strengthen believe through mere dip, inside the holy water of Ganga Maata.