Uma Bharti on 2,500-km tour a long Ganga to oversee clean-up

Union minister Uma Bharti on Thursday set off on a tour to inspect execution of the Centre’s ‘Namami Gange’ programme at various places along the Ganga in a bid to amplify efforts to clean up the heavily-polluted river. Bharti will begin her 15-day trip from Ganga Sagar in West Bengal and culminate the same at Gangotri in Uttarakhand.