%0 Book
%A Divya Deepankar
%D 2017
%C Hamburg, Germany
%I Anchor Academic Publishing
%@ 9783960677079
%T River Pollution Abatement to Achieve Water Security. Issues, Challenges and Progress of Ganga Action Plan and Namami Gange Mission towards River Ganga Pollution Abatement in India
%U https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/378245
%X Water security is crucial for a nation’s socio-economic growth and sustainable development. This research is motivated by the global environmental significance of water security for India with river pollution abatement as a means to achieve it. The case-study investigates two national river pollution abatement programs of the Ganga river – Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and Namami Gange Mission(NGM) – by analyzing their issues, challenges and progress. A human-geography based, mixed-method approach of literature review, policy-discourse analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant observation is adopted. The study builds on the achievements, failures, strengths, and weaknesses of GAP to critically analyze the vision, strategy and progress of NGM. Strong recommendations for improvements in the current strategy of NGM and scope for further research are suggested. This paper is one of the first academic documentations on NGM, laying a strong, fundamental progressive baseline for further study.
%K Ganges, Environmental Change, Environmental Management, River cleaning policy, Sustainable development, Socioeconomics, Interview
%G English