Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday dismissed the news of pollution in the confluence during Mahakumbh and said that comprehensive water quality monitoring showed that the river was clean during the entire event. Speaking at a meeting of officials of the Indian Institute of Management and Indian Postal Service in Lucknow, Adityanath said that despite the baseless claims, our state pollution control boards and independent laboratories have constantly found water quality at low levels at the confluence.
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Yogi said that Mahakumbh-2025, Prayagraj, whoever came, was overwhelmed to see the amazing confluence. The one who saw Mahakumbh-2025, Prayagraj as the form of Mahakumbh-2025. He said that when the Prime Minister of Mauritius came on a tour in 2013, he avoided taking a dip in the Ganges after seeing pollution. We made sure that this time there is no such incident. The Chief Minister claimed that his government took preventive measures from day one to ensure that no sewage or industrial waste fell into the Ganges or Yamuna.
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The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh said that the most serious pollution point in Uttar Pradesh was Kanpur, where for 125 years, four crore liters of untreated sewage in Jajmau used to flow into the Ganges. We closed it three years ago and today, not a single drop of sewage falls into the river. Adityanath also said that Kanpur’s Tanney wastes, which were once highly poisonous and were responsible for ending the aquatic life in the Ganges, have been brought under strict control. He said that we had established CCTV surveillance round the clock two years ago and made treatment plants mandatory for all tanneries. Those who failed to follow it had to be closed.