Ecological Reforms
The Government initiated two projects recently with the assistance from World Bank to accelerate ecological conservation. The National Ganga River Basin Authority has accessed World Bank assistance for conservation of Ganga River Basin. Another project with the World Bank assistance, namely, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project has also been launched.
Besides, Government has, under the National River Conservation Plan, sanctioned projects costing Rs 367.51 crores for conservation of River Musi along Hyderabad, River Godavari along Bhadrachalam, Mancherial, Rajahmundry and Ramagundam in the State of Andhra Pradesh. So far, funds of Rs 259.80 crores have been released by the Government of India for implementation of the projects and sewage treatment capacity of 600 MLD has been created. A project namely, ‘Rehabilitation & Rejuvenation of Banjara Lake’ in Hyderabad has been sanctioned at a cost of Rs 4.30 crores under the National Lake Conservation Plan. So far, an amount of Rs 2.70 crores has been released for implementation of the projects.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Environment and Forests (independent charge) Shrimati Jayanthi Natarajan in a written reply to a question by . Shri Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy in Lok Sabha today.
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