Lok Sabha Question No. 2725 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-27
Subject: Projects under Namami Gange Mission
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN, T. RADHAKRISHNAN, VIJAY KUMAR S.R., SUDHEER GUPTA, S. RAJENDRAN

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

## LOK SABHA UN STARRED QUESTION NO. 2725

ANSWERED ON 27.12 .201 8

## PROJECTS UNDER NAMAM I GANGE MISSION

| 2725. KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH SHRI T. RADHAKRISHNAN SHRI SUDHEER GUPTA   | SHRI ASHOK SHANKARRAO CHAVAN SHRI S.R. VIJAYAKUMAR SHRI S. RAJENDRAN   |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

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

- (a) whether the Government has recently reviewed the execution of projects under Namami Gange in some States;
- (b) if so, the details along with the outcome thereof;
- (c) the number of projects sanctioned under the said mission so far, State/UT - wise;
- (d) the cost involved in each project along with its completion date and the details of Me Understanding (MoU) signed so far, if any; and
- (e) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to complete the said projects in time boun

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER  OF  STATE  FOR  WATER  RESOURCES,  RIVER  DEVELOPMENT  AND  GANGA REJUVENATION & HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT (DR.  SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) & (b) The Government of India is closely monitoring and regularly reviewing the execution Gange projects with concerned States with a perspective to assess the progress, identify the affecting  the  progress,  improve  coordination  and  to  evolve  enabling  measures  to  exped implementation.  The  details  of  the  review  meetings  held  at  the  level of  Hon'ble  Minister  of  Water Resources,  River  Development  and  Ganga  Rejuvenation  during  2018  to  monitor  the  execution projects are given below:

|   Sr. No. | State Reviewed   |   No. of reviews during 2018 |
|-----------|------------------|------------------------------|
|         1 | Uttarkhand       |                            4 |
|         2 | Uttar Pradesh    |                            4 |
|         3 | Bihar            |                            3 |
|         4 | Jharkhand        |                            3 |
|         5 | West Bengal      |                            3 |
|         6 | Delhi            |                            3 |

In addition to the above 11 Executing Committee (EC) meetings held during the year date, in which the progress of execution of the projects in the States / UT was reviewed.

(c) & (d) Under Namami Gange Programme, variety of coordinated activities meant for cleaning Ganga including treatment of municipal sewage, treatment of industrial effluent, drain bi - remediation, river  surface  cleaning,  rural  sanitation,  river  front  development,  constr uction  of  ghats  and  crematoria, afforestation & biodiversity conservation, public outreach programme etc. have been taken total of 254 projects have been sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs. 24,672 crore as pe breakup.

Cost

| S. No.   | Projects Category                                  |   No. of Projects |   Sanctioned (Rs. In crore) |
|----------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
| 1        | Sewerage Infrastructure                            |               131 |                    19742    |
| 2        | Bioremediation                                     |                11 |                      201.23 |
| 3        | Modular STPs - Decentralized Treatment             |                 1 |                      410    |
| 4        | Rural Sanitation                                   |                 1 |                     1426.26 |
| 5        | Industrial Pollution Abatement                     |                12 |                      900.13 |
| 6        | River Front Development                            |                 1 |                      243.27 |
| 7        | Ghats & Crematoria (old)                           |                24 |                      204.39 |
| 8        | Ghat & Crematoria (New)                            |                35 |                      717.39 |
| 9        | Ghat Cleaning                                      |                 3 |                       43.87 |
| 10       | River Surface Cleaning                             |                 1 |                       33.53 |
| 11       | Biodiversity Conservation                          |                 6 |                       33.42 |
| 12       | Afforestation                                      |                16 |                      236.56 |
| 13       | Institutional Development                          |                 6 |                      185    |
| 14       | Project Implementation Support / Research projects |                 4 |                      126.56 |
| 15       | Composite Ecological Task Force                    |                 2 |                      167.7  |
|          | Total                                              |               254 |                    24672    |

The state wise breakup of the projects is as under:

| Sr. No.   | State                                                                      | No. of Projects   |
|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|
| 1         | Uttarakhand                                                                | 47                |
| 2         | Uttar Pradesh                                                              | 69                |
| 3         | Bihar                                                                      | 39                |
| 4         | Jharkhand                                                                  | 10                |
| 5         | West Bengal                                                                | 50                |
| 6         | Delhi                                                                      | 12                |
| 7         | Haryana                                                                    | 2                 |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh                                                           | 1                 |
| 9         | Other institutional, research, rural projects applicable to all the states | sanitation 24     |
| Total     | Total                                                                      | 254               |

Details of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed so far are given in the Annexure .

- (e) In order to ensure effective implementation and timely completion of projects, regul reviews  are  being  held  at  different  levels  and  the  bottlenecks  are  resolved through  continuous coordination with the state government at various levels, field visits and by regular monit following measures have been taken for timely completion of projects:
- i . Engagement of Project Management Consultants / Supervision Consultants.
- ii . Providing hand holding support to States in implementation of projects on new and concepts such as 'Hybrid Annuity Based Public - private partnership (PPP Mode)',  'One City - One Operator' etc.

Cleaning  of  the  river  is  a  continuous  process  and  efforts  are  being  made  to  co

- iii . Developed guidelines for preparation of Detailed Progress Reports (DPRs). projects by the year 2020.

*****

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART S  (c ) &  (d) OF  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2725 TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 27.12.2018 REGARDING 'PROJECTS UNDER NAMAMI GANGE MISSION'.

1. Project: Environment literacy programme in 1438 Gram Panchayats located along the b of river Ganga in Sakshar Bharat Districts.

Sanctioned Cost: Rs. 2.40 crore

Comple tion date: 31

st December 2020

An Environment literacy program funded by NMCG is under implementation by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education in 1438 Gram Panchayats in five Ganga river bank states.

2. Project: Involvement of Youth in Namami Gange Programme.

Sanctioned Cost:

Rs 10.00 crore

Completion date: 10

th August 2020

Nehru  Yuva  Kendra  Sangathan  (NYKS), Ministry  of  Youth  Affairs  &  Sports has  been assigned a project 'Involvement of Youth in Namami Gange Programme' for 20 months.

3. Project: Rural sanitation programme in Ganga bank villages.

Rural  Sanitation  programme  is  being  implemented  by Ministry  of  Drinking  Water  & Sanitation for  whi ch  NMCG  has  been  sanctioned  Rs. 1020  cr.  to  MoDWS  for  the construc tion  ofIndividual  Household  Latrine (IHHL),  liquid  waste  management  & afforestation in Ganga bank villages.

4. Project: Swachhta Action Plan (SAP), Namami Gange Clean Abhiyan.

Sanctioned cost: Rs.11.00  crore

Completion year -December, 2018

Ministry  of  Agri culture  and  Farmers  Welfare  released  an  amount  of  Rs.11.00  crore  f organic farming to the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand.

5. Project:  Promotion,  Conservation  &  plantation  of  medicinal  plant  under  central scheme.

Sanctioned cost: Rs.3.30 crore

Completion year:  upto 5 year.

Ministry of AYUSH has sanctioned amount of Rs.30.80 crore for Namami Gange Program for the project of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.

In  addition  to  above NMCG  has  entered  into  Memorandum  of  Understanding  with following  participating  Central  Ministries  to  work  in  close  coordination  for  ensuri synergy in the task of pollution abatement and Ganga rejuvenation.

- 1) Ministry of Railways
- 2) Ministry of Shippin g
- 3) Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD)
- 4) Ministry of Tourism
- 5) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (IOCL)
- 6) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

*****