Namami Gange Programme

Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission, approved as a flagship Programme by the Union Government in 2014 to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga.
It is being operated under the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti.
The program is being implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), and its state counterpart organizations i.e., State Program ManagementGroups (SPMGs). The main pillars of the programme are:

The World Bank has approved a five-year loan to the Namami Gange project worth ₹3,000 crore ($400 million) to develop and improve infrastructure projects to abate pollution in the river basin.

The Namami Ganga or the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has already received ₹4,535 crore ($600 million) from the World Bank valid until December 2021 as part of the first phase of the National Ganga River Basin project.
So far, 313 projects worth ₹25,000 crore have been sanctioned under the mission.

The loan would fund three new ‘Hybrid Annuity Projects’ (the government bears 40% of the project cost and the remaining amount is arranged by the developer) in Agra, Meerut and Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh for the tributaries of the Ganga.
Some of the projects include spillover projects from the first phase of the mission as well cleaning projects in tributaries such as the Yamuna and Kali rivers.
Rs.1,209 crore is provided for the ongoing DBOT-Design, Build, Operate and Transfer (It is a model in which a private partner is responsible to design, build, operate during the contracted period and transfer back the facility to the public sector) projects in Buxar, Munger, Begusarai in Bihar.
It would include institutional development, improving investment resilience to Covid-19 like emergency situations, performance based incentive for Urban Local Bodies and communication and management programmes.

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