G. Asok Kumar, Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), presided over the 45th meeting of the Executive Committee of the NMCG in October 2022. Sewerage management, industrial pollution reduction, biodiversity conservation, reforestation, river front development, and decentralised wastewater treatment were among the 14 projects authorised at the meeting, with a total estimated cost of about Rs. 1145 crores. These are eight initiatives for managing sewage in the five states that make up the main stem of the Ganges River: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.
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Note: The above-mentioned news was first published by us in our ProjectX India | 1st November 2022 edition.
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