‘Dolphins return to the Ganga in U.P.’- UPSC Daily Important Topic | 29 November 2022

‘Dolphins return to the Ganga in U.P.’

✓Dolphins have started coming back to the Ganga with improvement in the quality of the river water owing to Namami Gange programme.

✓Present dolphin population in  Ganga ~ 600.

● Namami Gange programme:

✓The flow of > 460 MLD (million litres a day) of sewage into the Ganga has been stopped.

✓Additional treatment capacity of about 33 MLD will also be created till December in:

✓Jhansi, Kanpur, Unnao, Shuklaganj, Sultanpur Budhana, Jaunpur and Baghpat.

● Dolphin breeding areas:

✓Brijghat, Narora, Kanpur, Mirzapur and Varanasi