Kanpur: Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Agency (UPPCB) has taken effective steps to keep the Ganga water clean as long as Magh Mela will be held in Prayagraj.
A few days ago, the Board had collected water samples from Farrukhabad to Fatehpur and found them satisfying.
According to Anil Kumar Mathur from the Regional Office of the Regional Police Pollution Control, one team has visited Fatehpur and others to Farrukhabad to collect water samples.
Moving to Toi, Mathur said water samples were collected regularly.
The dissolved oxygen level at the barrage point of the ganga and the jajmau point is found around 10 mg per liter against 5mg per liter which is a normal value.
Likewise, dissolved oxygen levels in all other points are found 10 mg per liter.
The pollution control board has sent roasters to tanning the city located in the Jajmau area to stop wet tanning three days before every day until March when Magh Mela will end.
Mela 47 days will begin on January 14 and conclude on March 1 on the Mahafivratri day.
There will be six main baths during Mela — Sankranti Makar (January 11/14), Payh Purnima (January 17), Mauni Amajasya (February 1), Basant Panchami (February 5), Maghi Purnima (February 16) and Mahashivratri ( March 1), Mathur said.
District judges have formed a committee to keep tabs on tanning and will go to the field starting January 11.
Committee members’ meetings are held here and discuss ways to apply the direction of the state government.
In addition, special direction has been spent to monitor distillation located on the edge of the Ganges.
The units will be monitored specifically recently, Mathur further said.
It must be ascertained the release of sewers or NULLAH not poured into the river without being treated, the court ordered …
The court also directed that the discharge of the factory and tanning in Kanpur also did not need to be treated.