Under the Namami Gange Programme, an agreement was signed for the development of a 35 MLD (Mega Liters per day) sewage treatment plant in Maheshtala (a city on the east bank of the Ganga). The project was signed in the form of a Hybrid Annuity PPP.
The Namami Gange program is a comprehensive conseration mission. It was approved by the Union Government as a “flagship program” in June 2014 to achieve the dual goals of effectively reducing pollution and protecting and rejuvenating the national river Ganges.
It is operated by the Ministry of Resources“>Water Resources, River Development and Ganges Rehabilitation Department of Jal Shakti Ministry.
The program is implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and its state counterpart, the State Program Management Group (SPMG).
The National Ganga Council’s implementation wing is the NMCG (set in 2016; which replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority – NGRBA).
It has a Rs. 20,000-crore corpus that is centrally funded and non-lapsable, and it includes nearly 288 projects.