Clean Ganga: As 2020 deadline looms, less than 25% of funds spent so far

As on October 2018, Rs 37 billion, or about 77% of the expenditure of Rs 48 billion, had been spent on creating no more than 11% of sewage-treatment

With a self-declared deadline of 2020 to clean the Ganga looming, the central government has so far spent less than 25% of Rs 200 billion to be spent by 2019 under the Clean Ganga Mission, according to official data.

Since the launch of Namami Gange or the Clean Ganga Mission in 2015, Rs 48 billion has been spent on projects meant to clean the Ganga and its tributaries--Yamuna and Chambal--over about four years to November 2018, according to data presented to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on December 14,