Center To Pay Rs 7,000 cr Liabilities Of Previous Clean Ganga Projects: Uma Bharati

15 May, New Delhi

Water Resource Minister Uma Bharti has said that around Rs 7,000 crore will be spent on payment of dues of previous clean Ganga projects, which have escalated due to time and cost overruns.

Speaking to media after the 4th meeting of Inter-linking of rivers in New Delhi Thursday , Ms Bharti said, only Rs 4,000 crore were spent in the past 29 years for cleaning of Ganga and now, government will have to pay the liabilities of previous projects due to cost escalation.
She said, various options would be explored for making the old policies more effective to yield better results by involving experts, NGOs and other stakeholders.