Namami Gange

Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission which aims to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution, conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga. It is an initiative of Ministry of Jal Shakti, which aims at making villages on the bank of river Ganga Open Defecation Free (ODF).

• It involves a comprehensive multi-sectoral intervention with multi-stakeholder involvement and adopts a basin based approach which includes Ganga and its tributaries.
• The project is headed by National Ganga Council that replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority as the apex body for directing the rejuvenation project. It is headed by ....