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the 47th eC Meeting

ational Mission for Clean
Ganga (NMCG) on 22nd
Nfebruary 2023 held the
47th meeting of the Executive
Committee of NMCG under the
chairmanship of Mr. G. Asok
Kumar, Director General, NMCG.
Nine projects worth around Rs.
1278 crore were approved in the
meeting. Out of them, 7 pertain to at 8 locations in Muzaffarnagar, 35 MLD capacities. An important
abatement of pollution in the Ganga Meerut, Hapur and Bulandshahar component of this project is the
Basin and 2 to ghat development. was approved costing Rs. 95.47 creation of treated water reuse
crore. The wetland construction network with the 120 MLD and 35
Mr. Himansu Badoni, Executive consists of making arrangement MLD capacity STPs.
Director (Projects), NMCG, of horizontal and vertical filtration
Mr. S.P. Vashishtha, Executive by developing oxidation, filtration for the monitoring of industrial
Director (Admin.), NMCG, Mr. segments as well as plantation inside pollution, a project titled ‘Pollution
Bhaskar Dasgupta, Executive the water way at one location. for Inventorization, Assessment and
Director (finance), NMCG, Mr. ghat development, one project Surveillance on River Ganga Basin
D.P. Mathuria, Executive Director worth Rs. 2.84 crore was approved (PIAS) piloted by Central Pollution
(Technical), NMCG, Ms. Richa for Nageshwar Dham Ashram ghat Control Board (CPCB) was
Misra, Joint Secretary and financial in fatehpur. approved at an estimated cost of Rs.
Advisor, Department of Water 114.42 crore. The project envisages
Resources, River Development and A project for development of annual updation of inventory,
Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of two Sewage Treatment Plants annual inspection of Gross Polluting
Jal Shakti, senior officials from the (10.91 MLD and 10.66 MLD) Industries (GPIs) by Third Party,
states concerned also attended the for pollution abatement in River annual inspection of GPI by CPCB,
meeting In the main stem of River Ganga at an estimated cost of monitoring of Recipient Drains
Ganga, a project in West Bengal Rs. 94.12 crore was approved for of Highly Polluting Industries and
worth Rs. 123.02 was approved for Lakhisarai town in Bihar. for ghat Industrial Clusters, monitoring
creation of a 13 MLD STP and a development in Bihar, one project of drains, monitoring of STPs,
300 KLD decentralized STP at for the development of Atal Ghat monitoring of CETPs, Online
Chakdaha Municipal Town. Manjhi, Saran, Bihar was also given Continuous Emission Monitoring
a go ahead at an estimated cost of System (OCEMS) /Dashboard/IT
In Uttar Pradesh, three projects Rs. 10.04 crore. Atal Ghat project portal.
were approved worth Rs 422 crore. includes development of ghat area
These include a project to intercept for bathing, facilities, space for Pooja A first-of-its-kind project
and divert 13 drains by augmenting and other religious activities, place titled ‘Survey, Investigation for
the sewage treatment capacity of for ‘shraad’ pooja and ‘mundan’, Rejuvenation and Conservation of
Salori STP by 43 MLD in Prayagraj landscaping etc. Two projects Shahdara Drain with nature-based
was approved at an estimated cost were placed before the Executive treatment – Soil Biotechnology
of Rs. 324.35 crore. Construction Committee for Madhya Pradesh (SBT) was also approved worth Rs.
of one 20 KLD faecal sludge co- for approval, out of which a major 1.9 crore. The project envisages
treatment facility is also part of this project costing Rs. 511.15 crore was drone survey, bathymetric survey,
project. Another project in Uttar approved to abate pollution in Rivers field survey/data collection and
Pradesh pertains to rejuvenation of Kahn and Saraswati in Indore. The investigation of Inlet Drain
River Kali East by development of project envisages construction of Discharge, Water Quality & Testing
in-situ Constructed Wetland System 2 STPs of 120 MLD, 40 MLD and and Soil/Sludge Properties.

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