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70th Executive Committee (EC) Meeting

The rejuvenation of the Ganga Gange programme, which
is a multifaceted mission that increasingly integrates river
extends beyond pollution conservation with biodiversity

abatement to encompass
protection, circular water
ecological restoration,
economy principles, and
biodiversity conservation,
sustainable sanitation
resource recovery, and
systems.
sustainable urban
management. Reecting this Protecting the Ganga’s
Unique Aquatic Biodiversity
integrated approach, the 70th
Executive Committee Meeting One of the key approvals was a

of the National Mission for project dedicated to the The Ganga and its tributaries
Clean Ganga (NMCG), chaired recovery and conservation of support a remarkable diversity
by Director General Shri aquatic wildlife across the of freshwater fauna, including
Gangetic basin. To be
Rajeev Kumar Mital, approved the Gangetic River Dolphin,
implemented by Turtle
a series of important
Survival Alliance Foundation freshwater turtles, and
initiatives aimed at
India (TSAFI), Lucknow, over a gharials. These species serve
strengthening the ecological
period of two years, the as important indicators of river
and environmental resilience
initiative seeks to strengthen health and ecological balance.
of the Ganga basin.
on-ground conservation
Their conservation is therefore
The decisions taken during
efforts for several of the basin’s closely linked to the broader
the meeting underscore the
most threatened aquatic
evolving scope of the Namami objective of restoring the river
species.
ecosystem.
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