(TNIE)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cruise through the Ganga River in Kanpur on Saturday to review the ‘Namami Gange’ project and get a first hand experience of the impact of the programme on the holy river. Twelve union ministers, nine secretaries of Central departments and chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Bihar are scheduled to reach Kanpur, late on Friday, to participate in the first meeting of the National Ganga Council on Saturday.
Chief Ministers of two other Gangetic states, West Bengal and Jharkhand, may not attend the Saturday meet. While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is yet to confirm her presence at the meeting, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das is in the midst of Assembly elections. During his visit, the Prime Minister is likely to announce a slew of measures under the ‘Namami Gange’ project, which has failed to make a visible change in the waters of the river in the past few years.
