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At the 37^th Executive Committee meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga , Chacha Chaudhary was declared as the mascot of the Namami Gange Programme and some major projects in Uttar-Pradesh and Bihar were discussed and evaluated.

Bihar

• NMCG has been focusing on youth as part of its outreach and public communications efforts as they are the impellers of change.
  
• As a step towards this NMCG has tied-up with Diamond Toons to develop and distribute comics, e-comics and animated videos.
  
• The content will be designed with the objective of bringing about behavioral change amongst children towards Ganga and other rivers. 
  
• The major components of the project will be Wetland inventory and assessment, Wetland management planning, Wetland’s monitoring, and Capacity development and outreach. 

Aim

The proposal aims at creating a knowledge base and capacities for effective management of floodplain wetlands in the 12 Ganga districts in Bihar to ensure sustained provision of wetlands ecosystem services and securing biodiversity habitats.

Uttar Pradesh

• A Detailed Project Report (DPR) for “Interception and Diversion of Drains and Sewage Treatment Works at Pratapgarh, Uttar-Pradesh” was presented.
  
• It will also add to the overall aesthetics of the area.
  
• Major components of this project will be Interception and Diversion of drains discharging into the river to existing STPs, development of 12.472 KM sewer line for connection of drains to STP (of these 7.60 KM is already built and the balance 4.872 KM is in-progress), two separate low-cost treatment processes based STPs for two different drains and an onsite low-cost treatment based on wetland technology proposed for Ramlila drain which flows parallel to  the railway line.
  

Aim

The main aim of this project is reduction of pollution load from Pratapgarh into river Sai along with the improvement in bio-diversity and eco-system of the river and improvement in general hygiene and sanitation.

Source: PIB