Uttarakhand's efforts to clean the Ganga show progress, yet significant challenges persist, including sewage treatment and STP compliance, per CPCB's 2024 report
Despite being considered purifying and healing by millions of Hindus, the truth is that the waters of the Gange are so polluted that they have caused more than 50,000 cases of pancreatic cancer, among other diseases, in the population of northern India.