Lok Sabha Question No. 3453 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-23
Subject: Cleaning of Major Rivers
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: HARI NARAYAN RAJBHAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES,

## RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †3453 ANSWERED ON 23.03.2017

## CLEANING OF MAJOR RIVERS

## †3453. SHRI HARINARAYAN RAJBHAR

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

(a) whether major rivers including Ganga and Yamuna have been cleaned from time to time to make them pollution free during the current Plan period and if so, the details thereof, State-wise; (b) the funds released and spent to clean each of the major rivers in the country including Uttar Pradesh, State-wise and the role played by the private sector in their cleaning; and (c) the time by which these rivers are to be made pollution free?

## 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) The initiative for cleaning of river Ganga started with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP)-I in 1985. Further in 1993, GAP-II was introduced for taking up pollution abatement works for the tributaries  and  later  merged  with  National  River  Conservation  Programme  (NRCP).  In  2009, NGRBA  programme  was  launched  and  then  in  2014,  Namami  Gange,  an  Integrated  Ganga Conservation Mission, was introduced.

In  the  Namami  Gange  programme,  till  31st  January  2017,  143  projects  are  sanctioned  at  an estimated cost of Rs 10,485.62 Crores. Out of these 63 projects are sanctioned for creation of 906.73 MLD new Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) and rehabilitation of 1091.00 MLD of STP and laying/rehabilitation of 4031.41 km sewer network for abatement of pollution in river Ganga and Yamuna. Out of these 63 projects, till date 13 projects are completed which has created 198.13 MLD STP capacity  (153.1  MLD  for  river  Ganga  and  45  MLD  for  Yamuna  River)  and  laid 1147.75 km of sewerage network.

- (b) State-wise funds allocated and spent so far on cleaning of river Ganga and its tributaries since 2012-13 is tabulated below:-

National Mission for Clean Ganga Funds allocated and spent so far on Cleaning of river Ganga & its tributaries FY from 2012-13 to 2016-17

Rs. in crore

| States         | 2012-13   | 2013-14   | 2014-15   |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   Grand Total |
|----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------------|
| Bihar          | 0.6       | 91.14     |           |    120.23 |      5.83 |        217.8  |
| Jharkhand      | 0.5       | 6.26      | 0.97      |     27.83 |     37.35 |         72.91 |
| Uttar Pradesh  | 109.10    | 92.30     | 74.58     |    147.58 |    468.78 |        892.34 |
| Uttarakhand    | 12.85     | 17.05     | 4.26      |     30.26 |     16.13 |         80.55 |
| West Bengal    | 0.6       | 48.91     | 73.85     |    185.79 |     72.88 |        382.03 |
| Haryana        |           |           |           |     30    |     37    |         67    |
| Delhi          |           |           |           |      4.96 |      2.17 |          7.13 |
| Madhya Pradesh |           |           |           |      3.39 |      6.5  |          9.89 |
| Total          | 123.65    | 255.66    | 153.66    |    550.04 |    646.64 |       1729.65 |

- (c) Under Namami Gange programme, it is targeted that by the 2020 no untreated municipal sewage or industrial effluent will be discharged into River Ganga.

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