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Line 62: Kanh has faced massive pollution due to the flow of sewage from industries. As an additional load, the household drainage is also dumped into the Kanh without any purification or cleaning.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/the-story-of-kahn-a-river-swallowed-by-the-spreading-city-of-indore-1486579608.html\|title=The story of Kanh: A river swallowed by the spreading city of Indore\|website=CatchNews.com\|access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref> ==Rejunevation== In 2015, the Indian government announced the [[Smart Cities Mission]]. Indore successfully qualified in its Phase-1, and it ranked eleventh onin the list released by Union Minister [[Venkaiah Naidu]] (MoUD), becoming one of the first twenty cities to be developed as a 'Smart City'.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/list-of-first-20-smart-cities-under-smart-cities-mission/article8162775.ece\|title=List of first 20 smart cities under Smart Cities Mission\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|access-date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> An amount of Rs 39 crores had been spent till 2020 on the Kanh and Saraswati riverfront development, marking the completion of five out of eight stages of the riverfront's development.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/smart-city-spends-rs-660-cr-in-indores-development\|title="Smart City spends Rs 660 cr in Indore's development"\|publisher=[[The Free Press Journal]]\|accessdate=April 4, 2021}}</ref> In 2023 the Union government sanctioned Rs. 511.15 Crore for the cleaning of the Kanh and Saraswati rivers, under the '[[Namami Gange Programme]]’. Constructions undertaken using these funds are expected to be completed in the next two years.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=2023-02-24 \|title=511 cr for pollution check in city rivers \|work=The Times of India \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/511-cr-for-pollution-check-in-city-rivers/articleshow/98194971.cms?from=mdr \|access-date=2023-02-24 \|issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

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