India, Aug. 21 -- Keeping the holy river Ganga clean has been a long-drawn battle in the country. Many have put in efforts to ensure the river stays pollution free but in vain. Hopefully, now, things will shape up differently as a new law is soon going to be furnished to prevent polluting Ganga. By Kumar Shree

Ganga, one of the most sacred rivers in India, spans across 2,510 km. Cleaning a river of such scale is a gargantuan task, and the efforts of doing so have been under process since the 1980s. First, the Ganga Action Plans and then the mammoth Namami Gange campaign has been in effect to clear one of the world's most polluted rivers of its woes.

However, all this collective effort have not been able to produce the desired results, a...