{"id":82332,"date":"2018-10-31T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/uncategorized\/g-d-agarwal-prominent-indian-activist-dies-while-fasting-for-cleaner-ganges"},"modified":"2021-02-19T23:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T22:07:48","slug":"g-d-agarwal-prominent-indian-activist-dies-while-fasting-for-cleaner-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/news\/g-d-agarwal-prominent-indian-activist-dies-while-fasting-for-cleaner-ganges","title":{"rendered":"G.D. Agarwal, prominent Indian activist dies while fasting for cleaner Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of India\u2019s most prominent environmental activists has died at the age of 86 after more than 15 weeks of a hunger strike to protest against government inaction on cleaning up the Ganges. The death of Prof. G.D. Agarwal, who held a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of California in Berkeley, prompted an outpouring of grief and tributes from activists.<\/p>\n<p>The Ganges, worshipped by Hindus, is India\u2019s largest river system and one of its most polluted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 with a pledge to clean up the 1,570-mile-long river, used for water by 400 million people, but increasingly choked with domestic and industrial waste. A flagship five-year project he launched in 2015 has fallen flat, critics say. Results of a federal audit released in Dec. 2017 revealed lapses in planning and financial management of the scheme and said under a quarter of the funds for the program had been spent in two years<\/p>\n<p>More information: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-ganges-death\/indian-activist-86-dies-while-fasting-for-cleaner-ganges-idUSKCN1MM28L<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-82332\" data-postid=\"82332\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-82332 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of India\u2019s most prominent environmental activists has died at the age of 86 after more than 15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":82327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85590,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82332\/revisions\/85590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}