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World Bank okays funds for Namami Gange:
News:
- The World Bank has approved a five-year loan to the Namami Gange project worth $400 million (₹3,000 crore).
- The loan is granted to develop and improve infrastructure projects to abate pollution in the river basin.
More in the news:
- The Namami Ganga has already received ₹4,535 crore from the World Bank until December 2021 as part of the first phase of the National Ganga River Basin project.
- So far, 313 projects worth ₹25,000 crore have been sanctioned under the mission.
Namami Gange Mission:
- Namami Gange is an Integrated Conservation Mission, also known as Integrated Ganga Conservation Mission project.
- The objective of the programme was to reduce pollution of the basin by adopting a river-basin approach for comprehensive planning.
- The project also aims to maintain minimum ecological flow in the river, conserve and rejuvenate it.
- The Vision for Ganga Rejuvenation includes restoring the “Aviral Dhara” (Continuous Flow”) and “Nirmal Dhara”(“Unpolluted Flow”).
- According to mission, Namami Gange has focused on the followings:
(1) River Surface Cleaning
(2) Crematoria modernization
(3) Ghat repair
(4) Rural Sanitation
(5) Municipal Sewage Management.