Namami Gange Yojana UPSC

Namami Gange Yojana

Objective of Namami Gange Yojana

• To clean and protect the 

Ganga river in a comprehensive manner.

• Watershed management 

of Ganga river basin and 

reducing runoff and pollution 

• To develop the villages located along the main stem of river Ganga which have historic, cultural, and religious and/or tourist importance

• River Front Management 

• Conservation of Aquatic 

life

• Creating co-ordination between different ministries involved

Salient Features of Namami Gange Yojana

• Will cover 8 states/UTs, 47 towns & 12 rivers under the project.

• Establishment of Clean Ganga Fund. 

• Under the aegis of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) & State Programme Management Groups (SPMGs) States and ULBs and PRIs will be involved in this 

project. 

• Setting river centric urban planning process to facilitate better citizen connects, through interventions at Ghats and River fronts. 

• Entry Level Activities: river surface cleaning to address the floating solid wastes; rural sanitation to arrest the pollution (solid & liquid) entering through rural sewage drains and construction of toilets

• Medium Term Activities:

- Expansion of coverage of sewerage infrastructure in 118 urban habitations on banks of Ganga.

- Pollution will be checked through Treatment of waste water in drains by applying bio-remediation method, in-situ treatment, municipal sewage & 

effluent treatment plants

- Managing the industrial pollution.

- Biodiversity conservation, Afforestation, and water quality monitoring

• Long Term Activities: determination of ecological-flow, increased water-use efficiency, and improved efficiency of surface irrigation.

Recognizing the multi-sectoral, multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder nature of the Ganga Rejuvenation challenge, the key Ministries comprising of 

(a) Jal Shakti, 

(b) Environment, Forests & Climate Change, 

(c) Shipping, 

(d) Tourism, 

(e) Urban Development 

(f) Rural Development

Note:-

Ganga Gram Yojana was started in 2016 by MoWR to develop the villages located along the main stem of river Ganga which have historic, cultural, and religious and/or tourist importance under Namami Gange programme.

Another Ganga Gram Project has been launched by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in 2017 in collaboration with National Mission on Clean Ganga (NMCG).