80% Ganga to be cleaned before Kumbh Mela: Govt
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said that 80% of the Ganga river will be cleaned before the Kumbh Mela in 2019. Adding that â¹20,000 crore is being spent, Gadkari said 47 out of 189 projects related to the river have been completed by now. Notably, around 10 crore people gather on the shores of river Ganga during Kumbh.