Namami Gange

Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission which aims to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga. It is an initiative of Ministry of Jal Shakti, which aims at making villages on the bank of river Ganga Open Defecation Free (ODF).

  • It involves a comprehensive multi-sectoral intervention with multi-stakeholder involvement and adopts a basin based approach which includes Ganga and its tributaries.
  • 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.

The main pillars of Namami Gange Programme are:

  1. Sewerage Treatment Infrastructure
  2. River-Front Development
  3. River-Surface Cleaning
  4. Bio-Diversity
  5. Afforestation
  6. Public Awareness
  7. Industrial Effluent Monitoring
  8. Ganga Gram

Achievements

  • All 4480 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.
  • As of December 2021, a total of 357 projects have been sanctioned and 178 projects have been completed and made operational. Sewage treatment capacity along the Ganga main stem towns has increased than the sewage generation.
  • The multiple projects and interventions taken up under the programme has led to marked improvement in water quality across various erstwhile polluted stretches of river Ganga.
  • As per the CPCB data of 2021, no stretch falls under higher pollution level category in the Ganga main stem.

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