The PRESS Pad

From Delhi’s Sahibi to Mumbai’s Mithi and Chennai’s Cooum, many of India’s smaller rivers have been narrowed, polluted or transformed into sewage-carrying drains. A new draft Small River Rejuvenation Framework under the National Mission for Clean Ganga proposes a different solution — restore rivers as living ecosystems rather than treating them merely as channels of water. India's river-cleaning story has traditionally been dominated by its giants — the Ganga, Yamuna and othe