Ganga Rejuvenation under Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Water Resources
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There is a general perception that nothing significant is being done under Namami Gange Programme but this is not correct. 251 Gross Polluting Industries (GPI) have been closed and closure directions have been issued to other non-complying GPIs. Real-time monitoring of pollution is being done in 938 industries. 211 main ‘Nallas’ that are releasing sewage pollution in Ganga have been identified, and 20 modular STPs are being deployed to treat Nalla water.
Regular review meetings with all the states government officials, contractors, consultants are being done and obstacles regarding DPR’s, Tendering Process, finalisation of design, overdue payments to contractors are being resolved for speedy completion of Projects.
Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Sushri Uma Bharti said that virtually all the 4470 villages on the bank of Ganga are now ODF (or Open Defecation Free) and ministry is now working on the strategy of ODF plus. Measures like Solid-Liquid waste management, tree plantation, making villages and towns plastic free and awareness programmes are being adopted.
Sushri Bharti said, “Our Ministry is working on Ganga Gram Project which is based on holistic development of villages situated on the bank of River Ganga with the active participation of villagers. Organic Farming, Water Conservation Project, proper disposal of solid and Liquid waste and renovation of Ponds will be emphasized.”
Namami Gange is an integrated Ganga Conservation Mission at an indicative cost of Rs. 20,000 crore. It approaches Ganga Rejuvenation by consolidating the existing and ongoing efforts and planning for a comprehensive action plan for the future.
Namami Ganga is to be implemented over a period of five years ending on December 2020. A total of 195 projects have been sanctioned for various activities such as sewage infrastructure, ghats and crematoria development, riverfront development, river surface cleaning, institutional development, biodiversity conservation, afforestation, rural sanitation, and public participation.
102 projects out of 195 were sanctioned for the creation of 2369 MLD new sewage treatment plants (STPs), rehabilitation of 887 MLD of existing STPs and laying/rehabilitation of 4722 km sewer network for abatement of pollution in river Ganga and Yamuna. Till date 24 projects have been completed which has created 217 MLD STP capacity, rehabilitated 62 MLD STP capacity and 1879.5 km of sewer network has been laid.
Presently, 45 sewage infrastructure projects are under execution. These projects envisage creating 841 MLD sewage treatment capacities. Another 33 projects are under various stages of tendering. In a paradigm shift in sewage sector in the past one year, works on two STP projects (50 MLD in Varanasi and 82 MLD in Haridwar) have been started under Hybrid Annuity PPP mode (HAM). Other projects sanctioned under HAM are Naini, Jhusi, Phaphamau, Unnao, Shuklaganj, Mathura, Kanpur, Mirzapur, Gazipur and Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh; Digha, Kankarbagh and Bhagalpur in Bihar; Howrah, Bally and Tolly’s Nalla (Kolkata), Kamarhati and Baranagar in West Bengal.
These sewage management projects will take care of the current gap in sewage treatment and will also sustain the sewage treatment for the future.
New initiatives taken by NMCG
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✢ One City One Operator
Focus under Namami Gange programme has been on 10 major towns that contribute 64% of total sewage discharge. Under “One City One Operator” initiative operations of STPs in 7 towns are being integrated and tendered with Hybrid Annuity based projects. Four have already been tendered (Kanpur, Allahabad, Mathura and Kolkata) and three remain (Patna, Howrah-Bally, Bhagalpur).
✢ Performance evaluation of STPs
Evaluation of existing STPs have been completed in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and project engineers have been appointed for Haridwar and Varanasi projects for installing new STPs. New STP projects are also being taken up on tributaries. Besides, annual inspection of STPs is being done by technical institutions in a time-bound manner along with close monitoring.
✢ River Front Development
Works at 152 ghats and 54 crematoria are in progress and expected to be completed by 2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 683.32 crore. Patna River Front Development project worth Rs 254.52 crore is at an advanced stage of completion (more than 85% work done). Under this, 20 ghats and 6.6 km of promenade are being developed among other services that include toilets, bathrooms, changing rooms etc. Pathri ghat in Patna which was developed under Namami Gange programme won 2A Asia Architecture Award 2016. One project of RFD at Chandi ghat in Haridwar involving a cost of about Rs. 50 crore is 68% complete.
✢ Surface trash skimmers
11 skimmers have been deployed at Haridwar, Garh Mukhteshwar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Patna, Sahibganj, Nabadwip, Howrah, Delhi and Mathura-Vrindavan.
✢ Water Quality Monitoring Station
44 Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Station (RTWQMS) are operational to keep water quality check. As for the abatement of industrial pollution, a survey of all 938 Grossly Polluting Industries (GPIs) was conducted. Out of 938 GPIs, 251 were closed and closure notices were given to other non-complying GPIs.
✢ Plantation of trees
Afforestation drive involves planting 50m trees along the Ganga basin at cost of Rs. 112 crores and is intended for preventing erosion of soil and groundwater recharge in the Ganga basin. Afforestation campaign with public participation has been taken up.
✢ Wildlife conservation
A comprehensive bio-diversity conservation programme is being undertaken through Wildlife Institute of India involving a cost of Rs. 25 crores.
✢ Raising manpower
Composite Ecological Taskforce has been instituted involving three companies of 100 men, drawn from Territorial Army with headquarters at Allahabad. They would be taking up plantations, public awareness, patrolling of riverfronts and monitoring of river pollution.
✢ Village sanitation
All 4465 villages on the bank of river Ganga have been made ODF which involved the construction of 10,83,688 Individual Household Toilets. Effective monitoring will be done by various state and district level committees.
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There is a general perception that nothing significant is being done under Namami Gange Programme but this is not correct. 251 Gross Polluting Industries (GPI) have been closed and closure directions have been issued to other non-complying GPIs. Real-time monitoring of pollution is being done in 938 industries. 211 main ‘Nallas’ that are releasing sewage pollution in Ganga have been identified, and 20 modular STPs are being deployed to treat Nalla water.
Regular review meetings with all the states government officials, contractors, consultants are being done and obstacles regarding DPR’s, Tendering Process, finalisation of design, overdue payments to contractors are being resolved for speedy completion of Projects.
Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Sushri Uma Bharti said that virtually all the 4470 villages on the bank of Ganga are now ODF (or Open Defecation Free) and ministry is now working on the strategy of ODF plus. Measures like Solid-Liquid waste management, tree plantation, making villages and towns plastic free and awareness programmes are being adopted.
Sushri Bharti said, “Our Ministry is working on Ganga Gram Project which is based on holistic development of villages situated on the bank of River Ganga with the active participation of villagers. Organic Farming, Water Conservation Project, proper disposal of solid and Liquid waste and renovation of Ponds will be emphasized.”
Namami Gange is an integrated Ganga Conservation Mission at an indicative cost of Rs. 20,000 crore. It approaches Ganga Rejuvenation by consolidating the existing and ongoing efforts and planning for a comprehensive action plan for the future.
Namami Ganga is to be implemented over a period of five years ending on December 2020. A total of 195 projects have been sanctioned for various activities such as sewage infrastructure, ghats and crematoria development, riverfront development, river surface cleaning, institutional development, biodiversity conservation, afforestation, rural sanitation, and public participation.
102 projects out of 195 were sanctioned for the creation of 2369 MLD new sewage treatment plants (STPs), rehabilitation of 887 MLD of existing STPs and laying/rehabilitation of 4722 km sewer network for abatement of pollution in river Ganga and Yamuna. Till date 24 projects have been completed which has created 217 MLD STP capacity, rehabilitated 62 MLD STP capacity and 1879.5 km of sewer network has been laid.
Presently, 45 sewage infrastructure projects are under execution. These projects envisage creating 841 MLD sewage treatment capacities. Another 33 projects are under various stages of tendering. In a paradigm shift in sewage sector in the past one year, works on two STP projects (50 MLD in Varanasi and 82 MLD in Haridwar) have been started under Hybrid Annuity PPP mode (HAM). Other projects sanctioned under HAM are Naini, Jhusi, Phaphamau, Unnao, Shuklaganj, Mathura, Kanpur, Mirzapur, Gazipur and Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh; Digha, Kankarbagh and Bhagalpur in Bihar; Howrah, Bally and Tolly’s Nalla (Kolkata), Kamarhati and Baranagar in West Bengal.
These sewage management projects will take care of the current gap in sewage treatment and will also sustain the sewage treatment for the future.
New initiatives taken by NMCG
✢ One City One Operator
Focus under Namami Gange programme has been on 10 major towns that contribute 64% of total sewage discharge. Under “One City One Operator” initiative operations of STPs in 7 towns are being integrated and tendered with Hybrid Annuity based projects. Four have already been tendered (Kanpur, Allahabad, Mathura and Kolkata) and three remain (Patna, Howrah-Bally, Bhagalpur).
✢ Performance evaluation of STPs
Evaluation of existing STPs have been completed in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and project engineers have been appointed for Haridwar and Varanasi projects for installing new STPs. New STP projects are also being taken up on tributaries. Besides, annual inspection of STPs is being done by technical institutions in a time-bound manner along with close monitoring.
✢ River Front Development
Works at 152 ghats and 54 crematoria are in progress and expected to be completed by 2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 683.32 crore. Patna River Front Development project worth Rs 254.52 crore is at an advanced stage of completion (more than 85% work done). Under this, 20 ghats and 6.6 km of promenade are being developed among other services that include toilets, bathrooms, changing rooms etc. Pathri ghat in Patna which was developed under Namami Gange programme won 2A Asia Architecture Award 2016. One project of RFD at Chandi ghat in Haridwar involving a cost of about Rs. 50 crore is 68% complete.
✢ Surface trash skimmers
11 skimmers have been deployed at Haridwar, Garh Mukhteshwar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Patna, Sahibganj, Nabadwip, Howrah, Delhi and Mathura-Vrindavan.
✢ Water Quality Monitoring Station
44 Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Station (RTWQMS) are operational to keep water quality check. As for the abatement of industrial pollution, a survey of all 938 Grossly Polluting Industries (GPIs) was conducted. Out of 938 GPIs, 251 were closed and closure notices were given to other non-complying GPIs.
✢ Plantation of trees
Afforestation drive involves planting 50m trees along the Ganga basin at cost of Rs. 112 crores and is intended for preventing erosion of soil and groundwater recharge in the Ganga basin. Afforestation campaign with public participation has been taken up.
✢ Wildlife conservation
A comprehensive bio-diversity conservation programme is being undertaken through Wildlife Institute of India involving a cost of Rs. 25 crores.
✢ Raising manpower
Composite Ecological Taskforce has been instituted involving three companies of 100 men, drawn from Territorial Army with headquarters at Allahabad. They would be taking up plantations, public awareness, patrolling of riverfronts and monitoring of river pollution.
✢ Village sanitation
All 4465 villages on the bank of river Ganga have been made ODF which involved the construction of 10,83,688 Individual Household Toilets. Effective monitoring will be done by various state and district level committees.
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- Status of State projects
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Scores for 98 mentioned below:
Complete U/C Assess Tend'
Uttarakhand 13 18 - -
Uttar Pradesh 8 9 2 11
Bihar - 10 4 6
Jharkhand - 2 - -
West Bengal 2 4 - 9
Uttarakhand
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31 projects have been sanctioned out of which 13 have been completed and in 18 work is under progress. The projects in Kirtinagar, Tapovan, Uttarkashi, Rishikesh are likely to be completed by June 2018, projects in Joshimath, Srinagar, Haridwar network by Nov 2018 and projects in Badrinath, Chamoli, Nandprayag, Rudraprayag, Karnprayag, Haridwar (Interception and Diversion work) by December 2018.
Uttar Pradesh
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30 projects have been sanctioned out of which 8 have been completed and work is under progress on 9 projects. 3 tenders are under evaluation and 10 under tendering.
The completed projects include those in Allahabad (4 projects, completed before 2017) and four projects (Garhmukteshwar, Kannauj, Anupshahar and Narora) in April 2018. The projects which are likely to be completed are [Allahabad Dist C and Dist E (Additional) by May 2018, Moradabad by June 2018, Varanasi (JICA- Dinapur) by July 2018, Kanpur (Sismau nala), Allahabad Dist A by October 2018 Allahabad Dist B and Varanasi (Ramana) by December 2019.
Tenders are under evaluation for Chunar and Mathura. The projects under tendering are Bithoor, Ramnagar, Unnao, Shuklaganj, Kanpur (Pankha), Allahabad (Jhusi, Naini, and Phaphamau), Farrukhabad, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, rehabilitation of existing STPs in Allahabad
Bihar
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20 projects have been sanctioned out of which work is under progress on 10 projects while four are under evaluation and six under tendering. The locations where work is under progress are Buxar and in various zones of Patna. In Barh, Sultanganj, Mokama,
Naugachia tenders have been received and evaluation is in process whereas tenders are to be floated for Bhagalpur, Digha and Kankarbagh zones of Patna.
Jharkhand
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Two projects are under progress. One in Sahibganj is where a 12 MLD STP, 55 km Sewer are being constructed. The project is likely to be completed by December 2018. Another project in Rajmahal of the creation of 3.5 MLD STP, 34 km sewer has recently been awarded and likely to be completed by June 2019.
West Bengal
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15 projects have been sanctioned out of which 2 have been completed; work is under progress on 4 projects while 4 others are under tendering. For five projects tenders have to be floated.
REPLY 37w - What is Ganga Gram or ODF plus
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❡— Ganga Gram vision is an integrated approach for holistic development of villages situated on the banks of River Ganga with the active participation of the villagers. After achieving ODF target, implementation of solid and liquid waste management and other such activities have been taken up ❡—
In other words, an undertaking to complete a range of works for development (economic & human), to further strengthen sanitation, and to create sustainability of resources and ecology (or sensitivity to the environment).
▬ Development incl renovation of ponds (agriculture), freight villages, etc
▬ Sanitation incl solid & liquid waste management
▬ Water conservation incl tree plantation, water recycling, drip irrigation
▬ Ecological protection incl tree plantation, wildlife conservation, organic farming, making villages and towns plastic free
▬ Behavioural change incl awareness programme against littering, etc
For peoples participation (create peoples movement, voluntary army & behavioural change), Gadkari appealed to the village sarpanches to pledge unconditional support. Officials also appealed for everyone's support.
Evaluation and Monitoring of Systems and Processes feature prominently in all Ganga rejuvenation projects. Gadkari announced that additional funds will be generated from NRIs to support the various Ganga projects.
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- Status of 221 projects at 30/8/2018
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Scores for 103 sewage projects as below:
Complete U/C Tend' Total
Uttarakhand 15 16 - 31
Uttar Pradesh 8 10 14 32
Bihar - 10 10 20
Jharkhand - 2 - 2
West Bengal 2 4 10 16
Haryana 2 - - 2
84 STPs out of 34 had some repair, 14 upgraded, 12 upgraded & operationalized. All done by private players & the use of IT.
Projects for tributaries, infra like diversions, etc: Delhi's 12 projects (Rs 4500cr) have all started. Putna 7 out of 11 started. Kanpur 4 out of 5 projects have started. 80 out of 140 MLD Sismau Nalla has been diverted and remaining done by this Oct. Varanasi 5 out of 7 projects have started.
Video & http://bachpanexpress.com/index.php/2018/08/14/shri-nitin-gadkari-inaugurates-20-ghats-in-kanpur-and-bithoor-announces-steps-to-tackle-the-citys-two-major-pollution-hotspots/REPLY 27w - About NamamiGange
221 projects are sanctioned for sewage infrastructure, Ghats and crematoria development, riverfront development, river surface cleaning, institutional development, biodiversity conservation, afforestation and rural sanitation at a total cost of Rs. 22,238 crore. 58 projects have been completed.
95 projects (Rs. 14,475cr) for sewerage infrastructure to create new STPs / rehabilitate old STPs (overall: 1948.18 MLD) and laying of 4,344 km sewer network were sanctioned.
The projects taken up so far will take care of all the interventions required for the 5 states along the Ganga main stem– Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal in respect of sewage treatment requirements till the year 2035.
For Ganga’s tributaries, 10 projects are being taken up on the Yamuna, Kali, Ram Ganga, Saryu and Kosi to create and rehabilitate a total STPs of 1353.5 MLD, laying of 436 km sewerage network at an estimated cost of Rs. 3027.59 crore.
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