Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently visiting Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh to review the progress of the Namami Gange project aimed at cleaning river Ganga. He chaired the first meeting of the National Ganga Council earlier today at the Chandra Shekhar Azad Agriculture University.

It has been reported that Union ministers Prakash Javadekar, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Dr. Harshvardhan, RK Singh, Prahlad Patel, Mansukh Mandavia and Hardeep Singh Puri attended the meeting along with several officers from the Centre and the states. The PM took a boat ride on the Ganga river earlier today and while he was climbing up the Ganga ghat, he accidentally tripped and fell down, while the security officials rushed to pick him up. The video of the incident is being circulated on social media.