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Ganga Haritima Abhiyan-Greening Ganga
The 'Ganga Haritima Abhiyan' is an initiative by Uttar A 'Top Committee' has been constituted, chaired by
Pradesh Government to plant 10 crore trees all along Hon'ble Chief Minister, UP, for continuous monitoring of
the banks of Ganga. The campaign was flagged off by the campaign. More than twenty seven departments of the
the Honourable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi UP state government are involved in this campaign. The
Adityanath on 7th April, 2018 at Allahabad. The main campaign will ensure participation of corporate sector for
objective of campaign is to improve and maintain the the plantation activities with an aim to ensure people’s
forest/ vegetation cover in the buffer zone along the course participation through 'One Person One Tree' scheme.
of river Ganga and its tributaries in the state of Uttar
Pradesh. The State Government has estimated `203.24 crores
for the campaign mainly for publicity, awareness, plantation
The Campaign aims to achieve - Aviral Dhara activities, meetings and workshops. During specific
(continuous flow), Nirmal Dhara (clean water) and identified dates (festivals/religious occasions), all the
ecological restoration of Ganga River, adopting community concerned and participating departments will be
participatory approach. The buffer zone on either side of responsible to organise the campaign at their end.
the river will be cleaned through proper solid waste
management, water/soil conservation activities and This programme provides a perfect synergy with the
developing proper beneficiary schemes. ongoing afforestation drive under the Namami Gange
programme. Since 2016 NMCG has funded `18.65 crores for
plantation in 831 ha. of land in the state of UP. Further for
2018-19, NMCG has allocated `21.86 crores for carrying out
plantation in 4111.0 ha. of land in the Ganga river bank in
U.P, which will be a part of the Haritma Abhiyan.
Ganga Vatika
Development of Ganga Vatika is an important activity under
afforestation programme along buffer zone of Ganga. These
green hubs attract a numbers of visitors who get to interact
with nature with a message to keep Ganga clean.
Hon'ble Chief Minister, U.P., Planting a sapling A view of Ganga Vatika developed at
during Ganga Haritima Abhiyan Rishikesh under Namami Gange
