Gadkari gets Rs 500-cr promise for Ganga cleaning from UK tycoons

Nitin Gadkari, the Union minister responsible for cleaning the Ganga, received in the course of a three-day visit to London a Rs 500-crore commitment for the project from businessmen of Indian origin. He confirmed this at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon before his return to Delhi.
 
Gadkari listed the Hinduja family and Sri Prakash Lohia of the Indorama Corporation among the donors. On Monday, at an Indian Journalists’ Association dinner, he had mentioned Anil Agarwal of Vedanta Resources and Ravi Mehrotra of Foresight Shipping as contributors. The four will take up developing and improving ghats and other infrastructure