Lok Sabha Question No. 722 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-20
Subject: Progress under Namami Gange Mission
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: PRASUN BANERJEE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES,

## RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UN STARRED QUESTION NO. 722

ANSWERED ON 20 .0 7.201 7

## PROGRESS UNDER NAMAM I GANGE MISSION

## 722. SHRI PRASUN BANERJEE

Will the Minister of WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the progress made in regard to the Namami Gange Mission so far;
- (b) the length in Kilometers which has been reclaimed /cleaned so far; and
- (c) the d etails of breakup of funds spent so far and how they were used?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  (IC)  FOR  YOUTH  AFFAIRS  &  SPORTS  AND  MINISTER  OF STATE FOR WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION

(SHRI VIJAY GOEL)

- (a) In  Namami  Gange project  total  number  of  155  projects  for  various  activities  such  as infrastructure, river front development, ghat & crematoria, ghat cleaning, rural sanit ation etc. has been sanctioned. Out of 155 projects 39 numbers of projects have been complete d so far.
- (b) Cleaning of river Ganga is being carried out through various activities including t municipal sewage, treatment of industrial effluent, river surface cleaning, rural sanitati & biodiversity etc. The municipal sew ge being generated in cities on the banks of Ganga is b managed by a mix of Interception & Diversion projects, sewerage network and sewage treatme (STP) projects.

The four stretches of river Ganga where Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) levels ar e more than permissible limits, as monitored by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) is given in tab

| State         | Stretch                       |   Identified Length of Stretch (Km) | BOD range/ max value (mg/l)   |
|---------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| Uttarakhand   | Haridwar to Sultanpur Adampur |                                  10 | 4.2 - 5.8                     |
| Uttar Pradesh | Kannauj to Varanasi           |                                 450 | 3.8 - 16.9                    |
| Bihar         | Buxar to Bhagalpur            |                                  40 | 7.8 - 27                      |
| West Bengal   | Tribeni to Diamond Harbour    |                                  50 | 3.1 - 5.8                     |

In  other  stretches,  BOD  levels  are  within  permissible  limits  i.e.  =< 3  mg/l.  However,  as  per monitoring reports of CPCB, entire stretch of river Ganga has high levels of faecal coli the prescribed limits.

- (c) The detailed status of break - up of funds spent/released to the states from Financial Year 201 - 15 to 2017- 18 till 30.06.2017 are given below.

## Rs. in crores

| States      | 2014- 15   |   2015- 16 |   2016- 17 |   2017- 18 |   Grand Total |
|-------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|---------------|
| Bihar       |            |     120.23 |      82.03 |       0.2  |        202.46 |
| Jharkhand   | 0.97       |      27.83 |      46.18 |       2.47 |         77.45 |
| UP          | 74.58      |     147.58 |     587.17 |      38.22 |        847.55 |
| Uttarakhand | 4.26       |      30.26 |      30.66 |      16.26 |         81.44 |
| West Bengal | 73.85      |     185.79 |     114.25 |       0.11 |        374    |
| Haryana     |            |      30    |      52.73 |       0    |         82.73 |
| Delhi       |            |       4.96 |       2.17 |       2.66 |          9.79 |

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