Gadkari satisfied over progress of Clean Ganga Mission

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New Delhi : Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari on December 5, 2018, expressed his satisfaction over the positive feedback being received for Clean Ganga Mission and assured the people of the country that their dream of rejuvenated Ganga will soon be fulfilled. He said that with the support of all stakeholders, the work on Clean Ganga Mission is going on war footing and the hard work of all stakeholders has started to show visible results on ground.

“ The government has freed Kanpur from the ill effects of Sisamau drain after 128 years, which was infamous for the pollution it was causing to River Ganga,” Gadkari said adding, “140 MLD of waste water has been stopped from flowing into River Ganga.” Gadkari was speaking at the three-day India Water Impact Summit 2018 ( December 5 to 7, 2018) organized at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

Six reports prepared by cGanga were released on the occasion regarding flow regimes and Ganga River Basin Management Plan of five main stem Ganga basin states. Green Ganga App developed by Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO was also launched on the occasion. Green Ganga App is used for geo-tagging of saplings and delineation of plantation boundaries under ongoing afforestation activities of Namami Gange programme. The touch-enabled information kiosk about Namami Gange programme, developed jointly by NMCG and ISRO, was also launched.

Gadkari said that since inception of Ganga cleaning programme (1985) till 2014, central government had spent less than Rs 4,000 crore. With the launch of Namami Gange programme, provision of Rs 20,000 crore have been made for 5 years. So far, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has sanctioned 254 projects for more than Rs 24,000 crore and has spent about Rs 5,000 crore in the last 4 years. He said that not only has the pace of expenditure increased manifold, results are visible on the ground as well.

“Out of these 254 projects, 133 are for sewerage management, 11 bioremediation, one modular STP, 1 rural sanitation, 64 ghat and crematoria, 6 bio-diversity and 16 afforestation projects,” Gadkari informed the gathering. He added that 133 sewerage infrastructure projects costing Rs 19,789 crore will create 3,969 MLD of sewage treatment capacity and lay down 4,871 km of sewerage network.

Reiterating the focus on tributaries of Ganga, Gadkari said that 26 projects are being taken up on tributaries like Yamuna, Saryu, Ram Ganga, Gomti, Kali, Kosi, Gandak, Damodar, Rispana-Bindal etc, according to a PIB release.