Ganga clean up in Rishikesh: Flowers offered by devotees to be used for making incense sticks
Synopsis
A cottage industry has already been set up in Keregaon for making organic incense sticks out of these flowers by a private entrepreneur.
Agencies
RISHIKESH: In a unique initiative to reduce pollution levels in the Ganga, the Rishikesh district administration will undertake a project as part of which flowers offered by devotees will be used for making organic incense sticks instead of letting them flow down the river.
A blueprint of the pilot project was presented by honourary president of Ganga Safety Plan and Dehradun District Magistrate Ashish Kumar Shrivastava before a government-appointed panel recently, Rishikesh Municipal Commissioner Narendra Singh Quiriyal told PTI on Friday.