Indian Policymakers Wasting Billions in Name of Cleansing Rivers

Looking at the appalling condition of major rivers of the country, including Ganga and Jamuna, the common man can only conclude that the mechanism responsible for keeping rivers pollution-free has become utterly useless. It is the height of callousness that despite intervention by the Supreme Court, there is no change in the situation.

Matter of Shame for Policymakers
It should be a matter of shame for the country's policymakers that in spite of spending billions of rupees, pollution of the Ganga and Jamuna has increased instead of decreasing. This clearly means that the massive sum was spent in a manner that made the rivers more polluted.
If it is not so, the country should be informed who would be accountable for the billions of Rupees wasted in the name of cleaning the rivers. What is the guarantee that along with declaring Ganga as the national river, preparations that are being made to spend billions to clean it would also not have the same result as the earlier?

Clean Rivers Campaign
If the Clean Ganga campaign is not run properly, nothing can be achieved except waste of time and money. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to create a system that would ensure achievement of desired goal in a project in time and without wasting money. That is why after spending Rs.18 billion, it comes out that the Jamuna has reached a condition worse than a drain, and that too in the country's capital, Delhi.
It seems our policymakers do not have the willpower to raise the hope of cleaning the country's major rivers. It is a fact that the resolve to clean the Jamuna by 2010 has been given up. Cleansing of Jamuna is not among the government priorities, a proof of which can be found in the fact that the Supreme Court has extended the time limit to cleanse it three times. When they are indulging in fraud at every level in the matter of cleansing these two major rivers, one can easily guess what would be the situation in the case of making other rivers pollution-free.

Fundamental Reasons for Pollution
What could be more disappointing than that in the matter, court orders are also not being implemented properly? One fails to understand when our policymakers would realize that neither is anything going to be achieved by merely expressing concern, or by the kind of work plans that are being run for years in the name of cleaning Ganga and Jamuna?
Rivers can be made free of pollution only when the fundamental reasons for pollution, which are turning these rivers into sewers, are diagnosed.