Ganga Mahasabha


Ganga Mahasabha
Location Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal
Causes Pollution and damning of Ganges river in India.
Methods Public movement
Status On going
Lead figures
Non centralised leadership
G. D. Agrawal
K. N. Govindacharya
Just. Giridhar Malviya
Indresh Kumar
Acharya Jitendra

Ganga Mahasabha is an Indian organisation working for the conservation of Ganges river, founded by Madan Mohan Malviya in 1905.[1] A proposed National River Ganga Act 2012 aimed at addressing pollution in the river Ganges was proposed by the mahasabha but not drafted by the Indian government.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Giridhar-Malviya-will-do-more-justice-to-Ganga-cause-Uma/articleshow/44787404.cms
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