Month after Modi’s campaign, Varanasi’s Assi ghat still awaits a facelift

A month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the cleanliness drive at Assi Ghat in Varanasi, little progress has been made for its restoration. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Nearly 60-feet high silt had got collected at Assi ghat after rise in water level of Ganga in last monsoon season. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Launching the campaign last month, Modi had said that various social organizations have assured that entire ghat will get cleaned within a month. However, nothing much seems to have changed on the ground. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Workers cleaning the Assi ghat. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

While launching the drive, Modi had removed silt for nearly six minutes in presence of other BJP leaders and officials of district administration. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Modi had nominated nine members to continue the campaign. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Silt gets collected at the ghat after every rainy season. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)

Official had earlier said that there would be nearly 40,000 trucks of silt that has covered the stairs of ghat. (Source: Express photo by Anand Singh)