NMCG Executive Committee Approves Projects Worth Around Rs2700 Crore For Developing Sewerage Infrastructure in Ganga Basin.
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The 46th meeting of the Executive Committee of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was organised under the chairmanship of Shri G. Asok Kumar, Director General, NMCG. Projects worth about Rs2,700 for the development of sewerage infrastructure in Ganga basin have been approved at a meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). Out of the approved projects, 12 pertain to the development of sewerage infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal worth more than Rs2700 crore. Afforestation programmes for 2022-23 for Uttarakhand and Bihar were also approved at an estimated cost of Rs42.80 crore. In West Bengal, a big project for the Rejuvenation of River Adi Ganga, a tributary of Ganga, in Kolkata was approved at an estimated cost of Rs653.67 crore. In Bihar, four projects of cost enhancement were also approved. The project will be implemented in collaboration with Patanjali Research Institute (PRI) and Patanjali Organic Research Institute (PORI), Haridwar, Uttarakhand, and has three components.
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