Lok Sabha Question No. 2115 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-08
Subject: Shortage of Manpower in NMCG
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: A.P. JITHENDER REDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UN STARRED QUESTION NO. 2115

ANSWERED ON 08.0 3.201 8

## SHORTAGE OF MANPOWER IN NMCG

## 2115. SHRI A.P. JITHENDER REDDY

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

(a) the percentage of manpower shortage in the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) d the year 2016 - 17 and the reasons for the same;

- (b) the steps taken by the Government in this reg ard;

(c) the details and the reasons for not utilising the funds amounting to Rs. 2,133.76 cro and Rs. 59.28 crore by the executing agencies/ central public sector undertakings; and

- (d) the corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard so far?

## ANSWER

## THE  MINISTER  OF  STATE  FOR  WATER  RESOURCES, RIVER  DEVELOPMENT  AND GANGA REJUVENATION & HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

( DR. SATYA PAL SINGH )

(a) & (b)As per the approval of the Competent Authority, no permanent posts for National Missio for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is to be created. However, permanent posts, wherever necessary, wo created separately with the approval of Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. Ac , the  present  manpower  requirement  for  NMCG  is  being  met  as  per  organogram  contained  in relevant Cabinet Note, as per which, the revised manpower for NMCG has been fixed at 11 earlier 59 posts. There are at present 96 numbers of technical and adm inistrative manpower drawn from  open  market,  Project  Management  Consultancy  and  from  Government  on  deputation. percentage  manpower  shortage  works  out  to  be  14%  during  the  year  2016 - 17. The  filling  up  of vacancies is continuous process and suitable staff is engaged as and when need is felt for the sam per due process.

(c) & (d) It is true that Rs. 2,133.76 crore remained unutilized in the bank accounts of Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) as on 31 March 2017.  Funds flow to the Central Publ ic Sector Undertaking and other executing agencies through the mother and child account arrangement,

no unutilized bank balance was lying with them. The reasons for non utilisation of funds during 2014 - 15  funds were released only for the ongoing Projects and after approval of N Gange  Program  in  May  2015  though  budgetary  allocation  and  releases were ubstantial,  actual expenditure,  incurred  was  as  per  demand  from  field  level  executing  agencies  and  the unspent balances were therefore taken forward for utilization during the ensuing years.

Further, it was decided that future Sewage Treatment Pla n s (STPs) would be setup under Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) which included Operation & Maintenance (O&M) cost for a period o 15 years. This was approved by competent authority in 2016. The Government has since constituted NMCG as an Authority and after its operationalization in December 2016, the pace of sanction STPs, Interception  and  Diversion (I&D)  Works  and  associated  projects,  as  also  various  othe projects leading to capital creation, have gained pace and are at different stages of im and execution. Since the end of 2016, a number of projects have been sanctioned and process to  take  up  all  STP  projects,  across  118  cities  on  main  stem  Ganga,  in  the  first  phase expected  that  the  pace  of  expenditure  under  major  component  of 'Namami  Gange'  Program  i.e. STPs and I&D works, is likely to gain pace in the coming months.

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