The Namami Gange programme is an integrated mission for Ganga rejuvenation.
It has a comprehensive multi-sectoral intervention with multi-stakeholder involvement and adopts a basin based approach which includes Ganga and its tributaries.
Namami Gange Programme is an initiative of Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR), which aims at making villages on the bank of river Ganga Open Defecation Free (ODF).
Interventions dealing with solid and liquid waste management are also being implemented by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS).
All 4470 villages located across 52 districts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal has since been made ODF by MDWS ....
