The Haryana government approved Rs 20 lakh to set up a centre for research on Saraswati river in Kurukshetra University.
The decision was taken after the Haryana Saraswati Heritage Development Board, which met under the chairmanship of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Chandigarh.
Khattar said that extensive research on both scientific and cultural aspect of this river should be conducted at the centre.
This centre would help in increasing the knowledge of students and will also promote research among the scholars, he said, according to an official release.
It was also decided in the meeting that sewerage treatment plants(STPs) would be set up at Saraswati Nagar and Bilaspur in district Yamunanagar “to check pollution in river Saraswati.”