riveris neeri equipped to do the job of prevention and control of pollution if entrusted with it yes i am sure neeri will do the job effectively the institute does have the technical expertise for it we had offered to do the quality monitoring job to the ministry and that is the reason minister uma bharti had visited neeri last month she has asked us to speed up work and complete it within 15 monthsso what will be different this time in the implementation of technologies for cleaning ganga first our approach will be completely a decentralized implantation plan it means that instead of having huge treatment plants both effluent and sewage we will go for much smaller and more number of plants all over so that most of the water or sewage discharged into ganga is already within the permissible limits a check will be kept on pollution at source level itself stress will also be on establishing more natural treatment systems like the phytorid technology and use of liquid hydrogen which uses plants which can absorb majority pollutants if set up near the polluting source q as a ritual people drink the ganga water the minister wants you to make it potable is it possible a it is difficult to predict now whether water can actually be made potable but it could be brought near that level the river has its own purification capacity due to dilution river water is diluted ten times where the waste enters it it gets further diluted a 100 times down its flow and even much more before entering the sea but with ganga the dilution factor is less as the amount of pollutants poured are very high this factor was not considered in gap i and ii