{"id":8928,"date":"2020-07-10T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:36:07","slug":"national-ganga-river-basin-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/national-ganga-river-basin-project\/","title":{"rendered":"National Ganga River Basin Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Polity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/content\/dam\/photos\/780x439\/2015\/dec-21\/IN-Gangainfopart1.jpg\" alt=\"The National Ganga River Basin Project\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The World Bank and the Government of India signed a loan agreement to enhance support for the Namami Gange program that seeks to rejuvenate the Ganga river.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Dale_Whittington2\/publication\/273227257\/figure\/fig1\/AS:294662658117632@1447264460645\/The-Ganges-River-basin-Full-colour-versions-of-all-the-figures-in-this-paper-appear.png\" alt=\"The Ganges River basin. (Full colour versions of all the figures ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Second National Ganga River Basin Project (SNGRBP) will help stem pollution in the river and strengthen the management of the river basin which is home to more than 500 million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The $400 million operation comprises a loan of $381 million and a proposed Guarantee of up to $19 million. The $381 million variable spread loan has a maturity of 18.5 years including a grace period of 5 years. The $19 million Guarantee Expiry Date will be 18 years from the Guarantee Effectiveness Date.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The SNGRBP will finance sewage networks and treatment plants in select urban areas to help control pollution discharges.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Project will build on the innovative Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) of public-private partnership introduced under the ongoing NGRBP.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Under this model, the government pays a private operator 40 % of the capital cost to build a sewage treatment plant during the construction period; the remaining 60 % is paid as performance-linked payments over 15 years to ensure that the operator runs and maintains the plant efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The World Bank has been supporting the government\u2019s efforts since 2011 through the ongoing National Ganga River Basin Project, which helped set up the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) as the nodal agency to manage the river, and financed sewage treatment infrastructure in several riverside towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EcD2enuVAAANGCB.jpg\" alt=\"namamigange hashtag on Twitter\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Polity Why in news? \u2022 The World Bank and the Government of India signed a loan agreement to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}