Thread by @anityakr

Today Prime Minister @narendramodi Ji reviewing #NamamiGange at Kanpur.
let's go through achievements of this project till now. Not only it will give an idea of accomplishment till now but way forwards as well...

Under #NamamiGange, a total of 254 projects worth Rs.24,672 Cr have been sanctioned for sewage infrastructure, ghats & crematoria devt., river front devt., surface cleaning, institutional devt., biodiversity conservation, afforestation, rural sanitation, and public participation.

131 projects out of 254 were sanctioned for creation of 3076 MLD new sewage treatment plants (STPs), rehabilitation of 887 MLD of existing STPs and laying/ rehabilitation of 4942 km sewer network for abatement of pollution in river Ganga and Yamuna.
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For River Front Development, works at 145 ghats and 53 crematoria are in progress and expected to be completed by March 2019.
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For river surface cleaning, 11 trash skimmers have been deployed at Haridwar, Garh Mukhteshwar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Patna, Sahibganj, Nabadwip, Howrah Delhi and Mathura-Vrindavan.
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On rural sanitation front, all 4465 villages on the bank of river Ganga have been made ODF and 10,83,688 Household Toilets have been constructed by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS). NMCG has released Rs. 829.0 crore to MoDWS for this.
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Total 6 no. of projects on biodiversity conservation and restoration of aquatic biodiversity of river Ganga including Dolphin, Ghariyal, Otter, water birds and fish & fisheries have been taken up, out of which 2 projects have been completed.
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Rs. 190.3 crores has been sanctioned to the State Forest Departments of Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West-Bengal for the year 2018-19, as a part of the afforestation program in the Ganga basin.
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Two road shows in London and Mumbai resulted in collaboration of countries like Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Israel with the Indian government for river Ganga cleaning.
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Biggest achievement has been the recent interception and diversion of Sisamau Nala to a STP in Kanpur, the worst pollutant for river Ganga, that emptied 140 MLD waste water from the tanneries into the river.
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out of 961 Grossly Polluting Industries GPIs, 795 units have connected to Online Continuous Effluent Monitoring System. Action has been taken against 209 Non-Complying units and 10 units have been closed. Disposal of black liquor has been prohibited.
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Bio-monitoring of river Ganga at various locations (Haridwar to Diamond Harbour) has been carried out to study the Benthic Macro Invertebrates, which reflects the biological health of river. Water quality monitoring is carried out 130 locations.
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There has been improving trend in the biological water quality at various locations.
36 Real Time Water Quality Monitoring Station (RTWQMS) are operational under #NamamiGange.
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