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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A billion dollar credit from World Bank to clean up the Ganga

A billion dollar credit from World Bank to clean up the Ganga

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published Published on Jun 3, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 3, 2011
The World Bank has approved $1 billion as credit and loan to support India's efforts to clean up the Ganga river.

The sprawling river basin accounts for a fourth of the country's water resources and is home to more than 400 million people.

The $1.556 billion National Ganga River Basin Project with $1 billion in financing from the World Bank group, including $199 million interest-free credit and $801 million low-interest loan, was approved by the Bank's board of executive directors earlier this week and will be implemented over eight years.

The project will support the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) in building the capacity of its nascent operational level institutions so that they can manage the long term Ganga clean-up and conservation programme, a statement by the World Bank said.

Apart from dedicated operational-level institutions at the Central and State levels, the Project will help the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) to set up a state-of-the-art Ganga Knowledge Centre to act as a repository of knowledge relevant for the conservation of the Ganga.

While NGRBA will fund investments (in sewage treatment plants, sewer networks and the like) that are critical for reducing pollution in the Ganga, it is the cities and municipalities that will have to be responsible for managing and maintaining them in the long run. The project will help build the capacity of city-level service providers responsible for running these assets and also modernise their systems for doing so.

The project will also help strengthen the Central and State Pollution Control Boards for monitoring the pollution in the Ganga better by modernising their information systems and providing staff training. The project will also finance the upgradation of the Ganga water quality monitoring system, as well as carry out an inventory of all the sources of pollution that affect water quality in the Ganga.

One of the reasons why earlier efforts to clean the Ganga did not take root was the lack of public participation. The project will help the NGRBA devise and implement communications programmes to encourage people to participate in the clean-up programme.

The Hindu, 3 June, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/03/stories/2011060364051700.htm


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