007- Apr 12, 2025
🌊 NAMAMI GANGE 2.0: Cleansing the Current, Healing the Spirit
Theme & Tags:
💧 River Rejuvenation, Sustainable Development, Urban Sanitation, Ganga Conservation
📘 Category: Environment & Infrastructure | GS Paper 2 & 3
🕊️ Opening Whisper
To clean a river is not just to remove its filth, but to rediscover its memory.
🚰 Key Highlights
- What Is It?
- Namami Gange Mission 2.0 (NGM 2.0) – extension of the original 2014 programme
- Active till March 2026
- Managed by National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) under Ministry of Jal Shakti
- Fully funded by the Central Government
🎯 Core Objectives
- Sewage Treatment & Drainage Management
- Riverfront Development & Surface Cleaning
- Afforestation & Biodiversity Conservation
- Community Participation & Awareness
- Restoration of cultural and spiritual significance of the Ganga
🔧 Project Implementation (as of Feb 2024)
| Metric | Details |
|---|---|
| Projects Sanctioned | 457 |
| Projects Completed | 280 |
| Sewage Treatment Capacity | 3722 MLD |
| Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) | 157 commissioned |
| District Ganga Committees | 139 established |
🏗️ Notable STP Projects
Uttar Pradesh
- Farrukhabad: 47.70 MLD STP | ₹261 Cr
- Ayodhya (Saryu River): 33 MLD | ₹222 Cr
- Muzaffarnagar: 32.50 MLD | ₹234 Cr
Bihar
- Bakhtiyarpur: 10 MLD | ₹85 Cr
- Fatuha & Phulwari Sharif: Additional STPs improving regional flow
Delhi
- Asia’s Largest STP (Yamuna Conservation):
- Capacity: 564 MLD
- Cost: ₹666 Cr
- Tech: A2O Technology | DBOT Model | NGT-compliant
💸 Financial Overview
- FY 2024–25 Project Completion Expenditure: ₹3,184 crore
- Model: Design-Build-Operate-Transfer (DBOT)
- Focus on urban wastewater reuse, non-point source management, and eco-restoration
🔮 Future Prospects
- Improved Urban Sanitation & Public Health
- Foundation for sustainable river rejuvenation
- Model for other river missions across India
- Public engagement and grassroots governance to deepen mission impact
🧭
Namami Gange 2.0 – A River Remembered, A Nation Reclaimed
“The river does not ask for worship—it asks for breath.”
📚 GS Mains Mapping
- GS Paper 2
- Government Policies & Interventions
- Role of Local Bodies & Community Participation
- GS Paper 3
- Environmental Pollution & Degradation
- Wastewater Management
- Infrastructure (Urban Sanitation & Technology)
🌾 A Thought Spark — by IAS Monk
A nation’s soul flows in its rivers. And when a river is healed, so is its people.
💦 Closing Whisper
Let every STP not just purify water, but remind us: cleanliness is a covenant, not a campaign.
