Newsletter No . 60 ; IRBMS and habitat diversity , loss of water bodies and wetlands , loss of floodplain vegetation and biodiversity … and loss of ecosystem functions� , the report said .
Both the Modi-led national government and the Delhi administration , normally at loggerheads , had supported Shankar�s event , and the Delhi water minister , Kapil Mishra , continued to defend it .
Shankar said in a statement the report was �completely flawed , unscientific and biased� .
Already tens millions of rupees have been spent in the past two decades to clean the river , with little improvement in water quality . Experts blame poor coordination between agencies and said that too much water is being diverted for human use .
Maharashtra ’ s polluting factories are making its rivers the filthiest in India
People from Dhabol Khadi village , in the coastal district of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra , used to catch 25 different kinds of fish from Vashisthi , - the local river . But for the past 25 years , factories in the neighbouring industrial belt of Lote Parshuram have been dumping untreated effluents in the river , destroying all living forms in it . The fish are dying and the river no longer offers a livelihood
option to the fishermen in the village .
The officials of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board as well as the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation which maintains the belt remain indifferent . Maharashtra , the state with India�s biggest economy , also has the highest number of polluted river stretches in the country . And , at 161 , it also has the most number of cities and towns along polluted stretches , according to a 2015 report of the Central Pollution Control Board . Of the 156 locations where the Central Pollution Control Board has set up its monitoring units on the 49 rivers and tributaries in the state , 153 do not meet the water quality criteria , according to the Board . The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued over five thousands of show-cause notices to erring factories between 2011 and 2017 . The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has limited powers to discipline these units , and hence it is unable to contain river pollution .
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Half of India ’ s rivers are polluted , says Govt . Report
An assessment by the Central Pollution Control Board reports that the number of rivers defined as �polluted� in India has more than doubled in the last five years from 121 to 275 . The report found the
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