NAMAMI GANGE- GEOGRAPHY
HOLIDAY HOMEORK
TANMOY
BHATTACHARJEE
CLASS-9 SEC-C
ROLL NO. - 32
INTRODUCTION
• Namami Gange Programme’, is an Integrated
Conservation Mission, approved as ‘Flagship
Programme’ by the Union Government in June 2014
with budget outlay of Rs.20,000 Crore to accomplish
the twin objectives of effective abatement of
pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National
River Ganga.
MAIN PILLARS OF THE NAMAMI
GANGE PROGRAMME
• Sewerage Treatment Infrastructure
• River-Front Development
• River-Surface Cleaning
• Bio-Diversity
• Afforestation
• Public Awareness
• Industrial Effluent Monitoring
• Ganga Gram
KEY ACHIEVEMENT OF NAMAMI
GANGE PROGRAMME
• 4. Bio-Diversity Conservation:- Several Bio-Diversity conservation
projects are namely: Biodiversity Conservation and Ganga Rejuvenation,
Fish and Fishery Conservation in Ganga River, Ganges River Dolphin
Conservation Education Programme has been initiated. 5 Bio-Diversity
center’s at Dehradun, Narora, Allahabad, Varanasi and Barrackpore has
been developed for restoration of identified priority species.
• Public Awareness:- A series of activities such as events, workshops, seminars
and conferences and numerous IEC activities were organized to make a strong
pitch for public outreach and community participation in the programme.
Various awareness activities through rallies, campaigns, shram daan, cleanliness
drives, competitions, plantation drives and development and distribution of
resource materials were organized and for wider publicity the mass mediums
such as TV/Radio, print media advertisements, advertorials, featured articles
and advertorials were published. Gange Theme song was released widely and
played on digital media to enhance the visibility of the programme. NMCG
ensured presence at Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc.
KEY ACHIEVEMENT OF NAMAMI
GANGE PROGRAMME
• Afforestation:- Forestry interventions for Ganga through Wildlife Institute
of India; Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute and Centre for
Environment Education has been initiated.Forestry interventions for
Ganga has been executed as per the Detailed Project Report prepared by
Forest Research Institute, Dehradun for a period of 5 years (2016-2021) at
project cost of Rs.2300 Crores. Work has been commenced in 7 districts of
• 1. Creating Sewerage Treatment Capacity:- 63 sewerage management
projects under implementation in the States of Uttarakhand,Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.12 new sewerage
management Projects Launched in these states.Work is under construction
for creating Sewerage capacity of 1187.33 (MLD).Hybrid Annuity PPP
Model based two projects has been initiated for Jagjeetpur, Haridwar and
Ramanna, Varanasi.
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