The focus of the Centrally-sponsored programme, which will be extended to other cities, would be to build and upgrade sewage treatment infrastructure and Circulating pump Manufacturers improve drainage networks." She further adding, "Several foreign companies have come forward to work under hybrid annuity model. Therefore, it is imperative on the part of the states to make sure that quality is maintained. Now the programme will be completely Centre-sponsored."An outlay of Rs 20,000 crore was approved for the clean Ganga mission by the Centre in 2014.In an attempt to give pace to the ambitious Clean Ganga project, Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu and Uma Bharti on Saturday launched "Smart Ganga City" programme in 10 locations along the river.. Responding to an issue flagged by the local administration officials of Varanasi who sought the creation of a separate wing in National Mission to Clean Ganga (NMCG) — nodal body for the Namami Gange project — for dealing with objections in obtaining NOCs for land from the ministry of defence and the ministry of railways, Ms Bharti said that "they will certainly work upon the suggestion."Union defence minister M Venkaiah Naidu stressed on the need for local participation while acknowledging the success of schemes like PPP and Hybrid Annuity Model for better execution. Ten cities chosen in the first phase of the project are Rishikesh and Haridwar in Uttrakhand; Mathura, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh; Patna in Bihar; Sahibganj in Jharkhand and Barrackpore in West Bengal. He added: "For the first time, we are also trying to entrench a mechanism as per which the treated water will be used by the industries. Speaking from Ujjain during a video-conferencing session with local representatives of ten cities, Union water resources minister Uma Bharti said: "In previous schemes, Centre and states have borne 70 per cent of the costs for setting up sewage treatment plants (STPs).

The work would be done based on hybrid annuity model in which first 40 per cent of the project cost will be paid by the government annually over a fixed period to the developer while the remaining 60 per cent will be disbursed on the basis of the quality of the asset created. However, he admitted, the government is not being able to take care of the remaining 3,100 MLD although efforts are on to reach that target. Out of this, about 4,200 MLD sewage is treated. This would not only result in leaving more fresh water for domestic and other uses but would also ensure automatic check on the quality of treated water."The OSD from the water resources ministry, Amarjeet Singh, while urging the states to raise their own resources to operate and maintain the sewage treatment infrastructure the Centre would build as part of this programme, said: "This is the first time that the Centre’s assistance in a project is 100 per cent for 15 years. Mr Singh added that in five Ganga basin states, a total of 7,030 million litres of sewage is generated per day.

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