The National Mission of Clean Ganga, NMCG has approved seven projects worth around 692 crore rupees. These projects were approved at a meeting of the Executive Committee of NMCG held under the chairmanship of its Director General G. Asok Kumar. Ministry of Jal Shakti in a statement said that out of the seven projects approved, four are related to sewage management in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. For sewage management in Uttar Pradesh, 3 projects worth over 661 crore rupees were approved in the meeting. These include creation of a 100 Million Litres per Day Sewage Treatment Plant in Lucknow along with Interception and Diversion works under Hybrid Annuity Mode. Besides, Two STPs at an estimated cost of over 74 crore rupees for tapping of Pipra ghat drain and Chhatiya ghat drain was approved for Raxaul town in Bihar. This project will abate pollution in Sirsiya River that originates in Nepal and enters Bihar at Raxaul in East Champaran district.
 
NMCG has so far sanctioned a total of 452 projects worth around 38,126 crore rupees and 254 of them have been completed.