Pollution Brings Threat to Bharalu River

The Bharalu River has taken a dangerous turn as the river is under immensepollution. Although crores of rupees have been sanctioned to clean the river,but still it gets polluted as the river is seen dumped with waste materials.

The government has released a fund of Rs. 2crores 44lakhs 73thousand toGMC to clean the river while in 2014-15, Rs. 750 crores have been sanctioned tocontrol artificial flood in the city but still the city gets clogged duringmonsoon in a short spell of rain as the drains and rivers gets blocked due tothe waste materials.

Moreover, the government has also released 2crores 55 lakhs rupees to Water Resource department, PWD, Guwahati Municipal Corporation and Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority in 2006-07, in 2007-08, the government released an amount of Rs. 5crores 63 lakhs while in 2008-09, the government released 6crores for cleaning of Bharalu River.

Although the government released funds every year, the concerneddepartment neglected to clean the River for which it gets polluted.It may also be mentioned that the River gets pollutedwith the waste material as the GMC throws the garbage collected from house tohouse in the River.