The executive committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has approved 14 projects worth ₹1,145 crore pertaining to sewerage management, curbing industrial pollution, and biodiversity conservation among others, a statement said on Saturday.
The projects were approved at the 45th meeting of the executive committee under the chairmanship of G. Asok Kumar, Director General, NMCG, it said.
The projects include eight related to sewerage management in five main stem Ganga basin states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, the statement said.