Lok Sabha Question No. 906 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-21
Subject: Budget Utilisation for Clean Ganga Mission
Ministry: WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANAGA REJUVENATION
Asked by: SISIR KUMAR ADHIKARI, BHARATENDRA SINGH, DEVENDRA (ALIAS) BHOLE SINGH SINGH

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 906

ANSWERED ON 21.07.2016

## BUDGET UTILISATION FOR CLEAN GANGA MISSION

906. SHRI SISIR KUMAR ADHIKARI KUNWAR BHARATENDRA SHRI DEVENDRA SINGH BHOLE

Will  the  Minister  of  WATER  RESOURCES,  RIVER  DEVELOPMENT  AND  GANGA REJUVENATION

(a) the present status of Ganga cleaning projects in the country along with budgetary allocations made and status of their utilisation;

(b) whether several State Governments/ municipalities and local bodies have applied for clean Ganga projects;

(c) if so, the details of discharging effects from tannery, sugar, paper mills and the factory toxic substances during the last two years;

(d) the details of State-wise proposals received so far towards beautification of Ganga banks and specially "waste-on-water" control projects; and

(e) the action taken by the Government thereon?

## ANSWER

THE  MINISTER FOR WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT AND GANGA REJUVENATION ( SUSHRI  UMA  BHARTI)

(a) As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including  the  existing  projects  sanctioned  under  NGRBA  programme)  in  53  towns  at  an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these 12 projects are sanctioned exclusively under  new  components  of  Namami  Gange  programme  with  a  sanctioned  cost  of  Rs  351.42 Crore. Out of 97 projects, 32 are completed. The break-up of the projects are given below:

- Sewerage and Sanitation: 58 project are sanctioned to create 808.23 MLD new STP and rehabilitation of 1089.00 MLD of STP and laying / rehabilitation of 3627.15 Km sewer network. Out of these 7 projects are completed which created 126.5 MLD of STP and laid 833.24 km of sewerage network
- River  Front  Development  (RFD):  28  RFD  projects  which  include  creation  of  Ghats, Crematoria,  Public  and  River  interface  and  promenade.  Out  of  these  24  project  are completed.
- 3 projects on Water quality Monitoring of river Ganga
- 2 projects on Ganga Knowledge Centre;
- 1 projects on Educating Schools and communities for conserving habitat of Ganga river Dolphin;

- 1 projects on DPR preparation for 'Forestry Intervention for river Ganga'. Completed.
- 1  project  on  Assessment  of  Water  Quality  and  Sediment  Analysis  to  understand  the special property of river Ganga;
- 1  project  on  Assessment  of  fish  &  fisheries  of  the  Ganga  river  system  for  developing suitable conservation & restoration plan
- 1 project on Rural Sanitation initiatives for Ganga Rejuvenation in Jharkhand-UNDP
- 1 projects Biodiversity Conservation and Ganga Rejuvenation given to WII

Apart from above, the other initiatives taken include:

- 'River Surface and Ghat Cleaning' programme using thrash skimmer has been taken up initially in 6 cities namely Mathura-Vrindavan, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna and New Delhi under the Namami Gange programme.
- 5  central  public  sector  units  namely  WAPCOS,  EIL,  NBCC,  NPCC,  EPIL  have  been recently engaged to carry out of work on condition Assessment & Feasibility Study and Entry  level  activities  under  under  Namami  Gange  Programme  in  their  respective  river stretches  in  Uttarakhand,  UP,  Bihar,  Jharkhand  and  West  Bengal.  59  towns  have  been surveyed so far and 27 pre-feasibility reports prepared and received. The other activities taken up under entry level activities include repair and modernization of Ghats, provision of  public  amenities,  village  level  drain  (VLD)  treatment,  repair  and  modernization  of crematoria  etc.1242  ghats,  369  crematoria  and  411  VLDs  identified  so  far  from  the surveys and out of these 191 Ghats and 64 Crematoriums are recommended by ESC till date.
- The Government has decided the implement waste management in the towns/cities along the river in order to prevent the city drains from discharging into the river Ganga. The Government  plans  to  include  Private  players  under  Hybrid  Annuity  arrangement  to ensure effective and regular sewage management. The Government has invited Expression of Interest from innovative technology providers for taking up demonstration projects on insitu treatment of drains discharging into river Ganga.
- A project on ghat cleaning at Varanasi has been entrusted to Varanasi Nagar Nigam at an estimated cost of Rs. 5 crore per year
- Re-habilitation and up-gradation of existing STPs;
- Creation  of  Rural  sanitation  facility  in  identified  1657  Gram  Panchayats  along  river Ganga has been taken up with support from Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. The 24.58 % of Indian House Hold Latrines (IHHLs) have been completed till end of June  2016.  979  villages  of  the  total  4257  villages  along  Ganga  declared  as  Open Defecation Free villages. Letter of Authority for Rs.263 Crore has been  has been issued to MDWS.
- UNDP has been engaged for rural sanitation initiatives for Ganga rejuvenation Jharkhand for (a) improved sanitation, b) sanitation linked livelihood activities, c) capacity building in 78 villages along Ganga in Jharkhand.

- The guidelines for the development of Ganga Grams (including activities pertaining to IHHLs,  decentralized  waste  treatment,  awareness  creation,  capacity  building  etc.)  has been published and distributed
- Forest  Research  Institute  (FRI)  Dehradun  was  engaged  for  development  of  a  DPR  on 'Forestry Interventions for Ganga Rejuvenation'. The main objective of the DPR is to make plantation in such a manner so that river flow may be improved and a biological feeder is created. In the 1st phase for the year 2016-17, 2700 hectare of plantation along banks  of  river  Ganga  has  been  recommended  by  ESC  based  upon  the  annual  plan  of operation  (APO)  received  from  Forest  Departments  of  the  concerned  5  states  along ganga. Out of these 1580 hectare of plantation (with special focus on medicinal plants) will be made in Uttarkhand alone.
- Real  time  monitoring  of  water  quality  at  specific  locations  along  river  Ganga  in association with CPCB Real Time Effluent Monitoring Stations installed in 508 out of 764 GPI
- IIT consortium has been entrusted the work of development of urban river management action plans for different towns.
- DPR prepared for construction of 100 MLD CETP at Jajmau to tackle waste load from tannery industries; DPR being prepared for CETP for textile 5 textile clusters at Ruma, Farrukabad, Bhadohi, Pilkhuwa& Mathura.
- Expression of Interest (EOI) has been invited to evolve innovative technologies to treat drains discharging into river Ganga
- Further other action points like development of model dhobi ghats, public amenities in char DhamYatra and Ganga Sagar, conservation of diversity of Gangetic aquatic life are also taken up on priority to improve the health of river.
- (b) the details of the fund allocated and utilized under this project since its inception is as below:

| Funds allocated and spent so far on Cleaning of Ganga since inception of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) till 13.07.2016   | Funds allocated and spent so far on Cleaning of Ganga since inception of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) till 13.07.2016   | Funds allocated and spent so far on Cleaning of Ganga since inception of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) till 13.07.2016   | Funds allocated and spent so far on Cleaning of Ganga since inception of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) till 13.07.2016   |
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|                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                    | Rs. In crore                                                                                                                       |
| FY                                                                                                                                 | BE                                                                                                                                 | RE                                                                                                                                 | Actual Expenditure by Govt. of India                                                                                               |
| 2011-12                                                                                                                            | 500.00                                                                                                                             | 216.61                                                                                                                             | 192.58                                                                                                                             |
| 2012-13                                                                                                                            | 512.50                                                                                                                             | 193.50                                                                                                                             | 191.52                                                                                                                             |
| 2013-14                                                                                                                            | 355.00                                                                                                                             | 309.00                                                                                                                             | 303.95                                                                                                                             |
| 2014-15                                                                                                                            | 2,137.00                                                                                                                           | 2,053.00                                                                                                                           | 326.00                                                                                                                             |
| 2015-16                                                                                                                            | 2,750.00                                                                                                                           | 1,650.00                                                                                                                           | 1,632.00                                                                                                                           |
| 2016-17                                                                                                                            | 2,500.00                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                    |                                                                                                                                    |
| TOTAL                                                                                                                              | 8,754.50                                                                                                                           | 4,422.11                                                                                                                           | 2,646.05                                                                                                                           |

(b) Yes, Madam. The state government of UP, Jharkhand, WB have posed projects to NMCG.

(c) The tannery, sugar and paper units are amongst the five major industrial sectors which contribute 95 TPD of pollution load (in terms of BOD) as against the total pollution load of 131 TPD contributing into the River Ganga. The quantity of effluent being discharged into the river by these sectors is given in the table:

| Sl. No.   | Sectors     |   No. of units |   Effluent generation (MLD) |   Organic Pollution Load (TPD) |
|-----------|-------------|----------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
| 1.        | Pulp& Paper |             67 |                         201 |                           76.5 |
| 2.        | Sugar       |             67 |                          96 |                           12.5 |
| 3.        | Tanneries   |            442 |                          22 |                            6.4 |
|           |             |            576 |                         319 |                           95.4 |

(Data 2011-12)

The discharge from GPIs is estimated to be 501 MLD against the total discharge of 6600 MLD from  drains  joining  River  Ganga.  The  impact  of  the  industrial  discharge  does  not  seem significant as observed in the monitoring mechanism.

(d) & (e)   5 central public sector units namely WAPCOS, EIL, NBCC, NPCC, EPIL have been recently engaged to carry out of work on condition Assessment & Feasibility Study and Entry level  activities  under  under  Namami  Gange  Programme  in  their  respective  river  stretches  in Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. 59 towns have been surveyed so far and 27 pre-feasibility  reports  prepared  and  received.  The  other  activities  taken  up  under  entry  level activities include repair and modernization of Ghats, provision of public amenities, village level drain (VLD) treatment, repair and modernization of crematoria etc.1242 ghats, 369 crematoria and  411  VLDs  identified  so  far  from  the  surveys  and  out  of  these  191  Ghats  and  64 Crematoriums are recommended by Empowered Steering Committee (ESC) till date.

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