Ministry Of Water Resources,

River Development & Ganga

Rejuvenation
Achievements in the Last One
Year
04.06.2015

Objective of Ministry
Water Resources

Enhancing irrigation potential

Bridging the Gap between IPC & IPU.
Sustainable Ground Water Management & its Regulation
Flood Management / flood forecasting.
Enhancing water use efficiency and water conservation.
Development of water resources data base for effective decision making
Operationalizing National Water Policy

River Development

Inter-Linking of Rivers
River Basin Management for efficient utilisation of water
Nurturing excellence & Innovation through R & D and Capacity Building

Ganga Rejuvenation

Ensure effective abatement of pollution and rejuvenation of the river Ganga

Ensuring water quality and environmentally sustainable rejuvenation of the
river Ganga

Ganga Rejuvenation

Structural Reorganization
Integrated Ganga Conservation Mission Namami Gange announced and
budget allocations made (July 2014); Gazette Notification - 1st of August
2014, for Ministry of (WR, RD & GR).
NGRBA reconstituted (29th Sep 2014), meetings held ( 27th of October 2014
chaired by Minister, WR, RD, & GR and 26th of March, 2015 chaired
by Honble PM)

Stakeholder Consultations
Ganga Manthan National level stakeholder consultation (7th of July 2014)
Website of NMCG launched with platform for suggestions (12th of
September 2014),
Suggestions from mygov.in considered regularly
Consultation workshop with Industries ( 19th September/ 8th October
2014)

Strategy Formulation
Constitution of Group of Secretaries to finalize the action plan for Ganga
Rejuvenation- 6th June 2014, Submission of the report (28th of August 2014)
Review by Honble PM on 8th September, 2014 and 6th Jan 2015
EFC meeting held on 30th Dec 2014

High Level Task Force (HLTF) constituted chaired by Cabinet Secretary,

2 meetings held 13th Feb & 5th May 2015
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Ganga Rejuvenation

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Cabinet approves Rs 20,000 Cr for Namami Gange

for 2015-20 on 13.05 2015
Projects ongoing in 50 towns (Rs 5900 crores)
Additional projects worth Rs. 1700 Cr slated for sanction

Last Mile Projects (100% Town coverage of sewage

treatment taken up/ongoing):
Allahabad; Varanasi; Haridwar (Preparations for upcoming
Ardh Khumbh - Chandighat construction); Garhmukteshwar
(Pilot Livelihood project for boatmen); Patna River Front
Development; Sahibganj; Bhatpara, Kalyani, Gayespur,
Halisahar
Kanpur Jajmau tannery cluster, under process

Ganga Rejuvenation- 3
Partnership launched with all 118 towns on the
main stem
Ganga PIU being established in all 118 towns with
rolling fund and dedicated staff under the Nirmal
Ganga Sahbhagita scheme
Similar exercise with all 1649 Gram Panchayats
Project sponsoring facility launched with Ministry of
Overseas Indian Affairs /CSR funding to incubate
innovation and expedite projects
Notices issued to all Municipalities(118 ULBs)/687
Grossly polluting industries follow up on action
plans

Ganga

Rejuvenation- 4

Bidders conference held with MoUD empanelled

consultancy firms for DPRs and city plans
Market conference held with domestic/international
sewage treatment industry- 268 participants
Conferences scheduled with District Magistrates of
Ganga districts in May /June
Partnership
with
Affairs/NYKS/AYUSH

Ministry

of

Youth

Projects formulated for tackling Ghat and river

surface pollution- Aerators/trash skimmers/Solid
waste collection
Eco-Task Force being operationalized

Achievements - INTER-LINKING OF
RIVERS
Projects identified for fast tracking.

Ken-Betwa Link declared as National

Project. Work on Forest; Wild life
and Environment clearance at a fast
pace

Meeting with CM Maharshtra to build

consensus on Damanganga - Pinjal and
Par-Tapi - Narmada links.

Detailed investigations of MahanadiGodavari link focus on flood

moderation helped in bringing Odisha
on-board.

Constitution of a Special Committee & Task

Force on Inter-linking of Rivers

National Hydrology
Project

HP - I (1995-2003)

HP - II (2006-2014)

NHP

INDI

Map not to
A
scale

On Going States
New
States

9 States
6 Central Agencies

13 States
8 Central Agencies

Pan-India
Cost Rs 3640 crore

NHP proposes:
Establishing and upgrading Hydro-met network in all the river basins;
Bringing the entire hydro-meteorological data on a standardised
central database for easy storage, validation and dissemination;
Development of Decision Support Systems for flood forecasting,
reservoir operations, water resources planning & management,
conjunctive use etc. following a river basin approach;
Enhancing capacity of the States and increasing collaboration
between Centre & States and amongst the States themselves.
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STAKEHOLDERS CONSULTATION
Three day conference
"Jal Manthan" organized
in November, 2014
simplification of schemes.
Weekly review meetings
conducted by Honble
Minister
expedited
decision
making
by
removing bottlenecks

AWARENESS GENERATION

3rd India Water Week on the

theme Water Management for
Sustainable
Development
successfully organised during
13-17 January, 2015.

Hamara Jal-Hamara Jeewan

organised in 485 districts
17.34 lakh students from 18,500
schools across the Country
participated in National Level
Painting Competition on Water
conservation.
JAL Grams selected in States.

INITIATIVES IN PROGRESS
Consequent to the visit of
Honble PM to Nepal, PDA
for Pancheshwar
Multipurpose Project on
river Sarda set up.
Rs. 250 crore released for
Polavaram Project
Siang Cabinet note

FLOOD FORECASTING
CWC started flood forecasting in J&K at
Rammunshibagh on Jhelum near Srinagar.
New flood forecasting web site launched, as part
of the E-governance initiatives for timely
dissemination of flood data.
Effective advisories issued to States during
unprecedented floods and very severe cyclonic
storms (HUDHUD and NILOFER).
Regional office of GFCC opened at Lucknow.

ASSISTANCE TO STATES
Grant of Rs. 2610 crore released to 26 Major & Medium
Irrigation Projects under AIBP - Creation of irrigation
potential 5 lakh hectares.
Rs. 200 crore released for 50 projects under CADWM for
creation of irrigation potential of 1.5 lakh hectare.
Rs. 131 crore released to 1092 projects under RRR of
water bodies.
Rs.320 crore released to NCT of Delhi for water sector
reforms including Rs.50 crore for Renuka Dam Project.
Rs. 320.23 crore released to States for 78 flood protection
works.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Loan assistance agreement for 33,959 million
Japanese Yen from JICA for Rengali Irrigation
Sub-project, signed on 27.3.2015
Fruitful collaboration with Australia and Germany
MOU between India and Bahrain on 22.2.2015
during the India Bahrain High Level Joint
Commission Meeting at New Delhi.

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM

Web based water resources information system
on GIS platform India-WRIS maintained.
Regularly updated data of CWC and CGWB
placed on portal for public access.
5th Minor Irrigation Census has been undertaken
for mapping of minor irrigation schemes in the
Country.
155 new Hydrological Observation Stations added
in the network

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM contd...

A cumulative basin impact study for

Siang sub-basin of Brahmaputra basin
carried out and master plan based
strategy on hydro development was
developed paving way for development
of 17,800 MW hydropower

Rapid simulation study regarding

formation of another landslide dam in
North Western Himalayan region (near
Phuktal) was conducted for suggesting
measures for safe handling of the
situation in the event of breach

Appraisal & Monitoring

Fully automated portal for online processing
and monitoring of proposals under AIBP was
launched
Appraisal of 4 irrigation (for irrigation to
2,30,417 Ha) and 12 flood protection (for
protection to 1,07,687 Ha) completed. 42
new irrigation projects; 16 revised cost
estimates are under appraisal.

Ground Water Management

Aquifer mapping 5.89 lakh sq.km

A web based NOC for ground water

extraction launched.

Three scientists of Central Ground

Water Board Dr. D. Gyansundar, Dr.
M. Sentil Kumar and Shri. N.
Ramesh Kumar honoured with the
prestigious National Geoscience
Award by the Honble President of
India

CGWB has been awarded Special

Achievement in GIS (SAG) award
at 15th ESRI India User Conference
for the application of GIS in data
base management in ground water
domain.

FOCUS ON NORTH - EAST

Visit of Honble Minister to North East during
February - Discussion with Honble CMs of
Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to build
consensus on issue of Middle Siang
Hydroelectric Project.
Visit to Majauli island and on spot assessment of
flood management.
Work started on establishment of NEBRRA.

THANKS