<span style="color: #222222;">National Mission for Clean Ganga, NMCG has approved 14 Projects worth one thousand  145 crore rupees pertaining to sewerage management, industrial pollution abatement River Front Development and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment. These include eight projects of sewerage management in five main stem Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. These projects were approved at the 45th meeting of the Executive Committee of NMCG held under the chairmanship of  Director General, NMCG   G. Asok Kumar. Ministry of Jal Shakti in a statement said that for sewerage management, four projects in Uttar Pradesh were approved including tapping of Assi drain in Varanasi by constructing a 55 million litres per day  Sewage Treatment Plant, STP, and other works costing around  308 crore rupees. The project was sanctioned with the objective of achieving zero untreated discharge from three drains  Assi, Sanme ghat, and Nakhha. Other projects include the construction of 13 MLD STP, and renovation of existing structures in Vrindavan City costing over  77  crore rupees.<br />''<br />''A big project for establishment of four Biodiversity Parks in four districts of Uttar Pradesh namely Hapur, Bulandshahar, Badaun, and Mirzapur has also been approved at an estimated cost of around 25 crore rupees. The NMCG  also approved indicative funds of 45 crore rupees for the installation of decentralized wastewater treatment systems in the main stem Ganga basin States.</span><br />