Namami Gange projects worth Rs 2,000 crore green-lit by government

The Government of India has approved the ten Namami Gange projects in Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh to the tune of about Rs 2,033 crore on Thursday. Eight of the ten projects pertain to sewage infrastructure and treatment, one to ghat development and one to Ganga Knowledge Centre. 
 
These projects were approved in the fifth meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga.
 
In Bihar, three major sewage infrastructure projects with total estimated cost of Rs 1,461 crore in Barh, Kankarbagh and Digha have been approved. These projects will create additional sewage treatment capacity of 161 MLD (100 MLD in Digha, 50 MLD in Kankarbagh and 11 MLD in Barh). 
 
In West Bengal, three projects at an estimated cost of Rs 495.47 crore have been approved. Out of these two pertain to sewage infrastructure while the third one is for ghat development. These two projects will create additional sewage treatment capacity of 91 MLD in Kolkata. 
 
In Uttar Pradesh, sewage infrastructure work in Chunar, district Mirzapur, has also been approved at an estimated cost of Rs 27.98 crore under which an STP of 2 MLD capacity will be created apart from interception and diversion of drains.
 
A project to establish Ganga monitoring centres in five riparian Ganga states has also been approved at an estimated cost of Rs 46.69 crore. Besides, two projects of treatment of drains using the bioremediation method were approved. The drains, which will be treated with this technology, are the Danapur drain in Patna and the Nehru drain in Allahabad at a total estimated cost of Rs 1.63 crore. All projects will be funded in totality by the central government.