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Launch Workshop for NMCG project

(Phase - III) held on 10 February 2024 at

Farakka, West Bengal

A launch workshop for the , NTPC , NMCG and project Hilsa restoration and upliftment
NMCG project (Phase III) was team members. The launch event of the Hilsa stock. He briefly
organised by the Institute on was inaugurated with auspicious presented the initiatives undertaken

February 10, 2024, at the Farakka Ganga Puja followed by fish by ICAR-CIFRI for recovering
Barrage Authority premises. The ranching program. juvenile Hilsa and protecting the

objectives of this workshop was The workshop was initiated by biodiversity of the river Ganga.
to deliberate upon the major the lamp lighting followed by the Continuous efforts towards the
outcomes, recommendations, and ICAR song. Dr. Basanta Kumar conservation and sustainability
obstacles encountered throughout Das, Director of ICAR-CIFRI of Hilsa through holistic,
the project's activities related and Principal Investigator of the multidimensional awareness

to Hilsa at Farakka, , and to get CIFRI NMCG project, welcomed programs were also initiated on a
technical expert advice on how and emphasized the significance large scale under the project over
to mitigate problems that may of riverine biodiversity available at the last 5 years. Mass sensitization
arise. The program was graced Farakka and the importance of the on Dolphin conservation,
by Shri G. Asok Kumar, Director system. He also highlighted the growing plastic pollution, up

General -National Mission for conservation of the river Ganga gradation and strategic survey of
Clean Ganga, and officers from and the initiatives undertaken by the socio-economic condition
CIFRI, Farraka Barrage Project ICAR-CIFRI since 2018 towards of Hilsa fishers was emphasized

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