According to administrative sources, if the schedule remains unchanged, PM Modi may come to Kolkata for the National Ganga Council or Jatiya Ganga Parishad meeting on December 30. The Prime Minister himself is the president of that council. Mamata is also supposed to be at that meeting as the chief minister of the member-state of the council.
Matri Sadan
Dehradun: In the backdrop of the Chamoli tragedy, the seers of Matri Sadan have decided to start their fast unto death from February 23 onwards unless the government decides to scrap all the hydropower plants on Ganga and Yamuna and their main tributaries.
Swami Shivanand Saraswati, the 70-year-old Ganga activist and founder of the Haridwar-based Matri Sadan, will be sitting on protest fast. The activist has tagged his protest a tapasya’ to save the Ganga.
The protest consists of four demands. Their three other demands include removal of stone crushers 5km away from the banks of Ganga, banning mining and quarrying on the Ganga riverbed from Raiwala to Raighat and formation of a Ganga Parishad .