The Namami Gange programme is an integrated mission for Ganga rejuvenation.
It has a comprehensive multi-sectoral intervention with multi-stakeholder involvement and adopts a basin based approach which includes Ganga and its tributaries.
Namami Gange Programme is an initiative of Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR), which aims at making villages on the bank of river Ganga Open Defecation Free (ODF).
Interventions dealing with solid and liquid waste management are also being implemented by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS).
All 4470 villages located across 52 districts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal has since been made ODF by MDWS with active help of state governments.
The project is headed by National Ganga Council that replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority as the apex body for directing the rejuvenation project. It is headed by the Prime Minister.
Recently the Ministry has taken up 24 villages on the bank of river Ganga to transform them as Ganga Grams in coordination with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was registered as a society on 12th August 2011 under the Societies Registration Act 1860.
It acted as implementation arm of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which was constituted under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act (EPA), 1986.
NGRBA has since been dissolved with effect from the 7th October 2016, consequent to constitution of National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection and Management of River Ganga (referred as National Ganga Council).
