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Uttar Pradesh authorities connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) said a broad enactment program is astatine enactment to guarantee zero discharge into rivers aiming to execute zero-discharge targets done adaptation of drone survey models successful aggregate districts.
“Drone surveys covering implicit 400 kilometers of the Ganga, Yamuna, Gomti, Varuna, and Pandu rivers person injected caller momentum into rejuvenation efforts. Surveys conducted successful large cities specified arsenic Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, and Kanpur person enabled precise appraisal of stream conditions, recognition of contamination sources, and mapping of drain discharge points. Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Hardoi, Ballia, Meerut, Mirzapur are among the districts acceptable to payment archetypal from this initiative. Based connected the drone survey findings, a broad enactment program is being prepared to guarantee zero discharge into rivers. Once implemented, the rivers successful the territory are expected to execute zero-discharge status,” Anurag Srivastava, Additional Chief Secretary, Namami Ganga and Rural Drinking Water Supply Department, Uttar Pradesh, told The Hindu.
Joginder Singh, Project Director of the State Mission for Clean Ganga said precocious geospatial technologies to enactment research-driven and evidence-based readying nether the Namami Gange Programme is practiced by the State helping generating precise geospatial datasets that are being integrated into a unrecorded GIS-based Drain Dashboard with 2D and 3D visualisation capabilities enabling basin-level contamination monitoring.
“High-resolution aerial surveys person been completed on the Ganga main stem successful Uttar Pradesh, generating precise geospatial datasets that are being integrated into a unrecorded GIS-based Drain Dashboard with 2D and 3D visualisation capabilities. The dashboard enables basin-level contamination monitoring, recognition of hotspots and prioritisation of drain remediation measures. It is the archetypal of its benignant inaugural wherever LiDAR based technological information has been coupled with ocular information generated done drone surveys. We are doing timely field-level validation by District Ganga Committees, effectual coordination and information to guarantee targeted interventions and strengthened drain-based contamination management. The inaugural volition peculiarly assistance successful mentation of broad and close DPRs with recognition of primary, secondary and tertiary drains and contamination load which it is carrying, National Mission for Clean Ganga, the genitor section is helping a lot,” added Mr. Singh, a 2015-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, who is Special Secretary, Namami Ganga and Rural Water Supply Department.
The Project Director added that the State has consistently emphasized the request for cleanable rivers and tangible benefits for section communities.
“In enactment with this vision, the recognition of drains and contamination power measures has go much efficient. A drone-based, integrated rejuvenation enactment program volition not lone rejuvenate rivers but besides simultaneously make opportunities for cleanliness, employment, and biology extortion successful agrarian regions. The advent of integer imaging drone exertion is revolutionizing the planning, execution, and monitoring of stream restoration initiatives. Initially utilized for subject reconnaissance, modern drones are lightweight, digitally stabilized, and often enhanced with AI, rendering them effectual instruments for biology conservation. Revitalizing rivers besides contributes to generating prospects for cleanliness, occupation creation, and biology safeguarding successful agrarian communities. Digital imaging drone exertion is changing the scenery of however stream restoration projects are conceived, implemented, and assessed. Once chiefly employed for subject surveillance, today’s drones are lightweight, equipped with integer stabilization, and often supported by AI, making them formidable assets for biology protection.,” said Mr. Singh, Special Secretary, Namami Ganga and Rural Water Supply Department.
