West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed that her state has topped in executing Clean Ganga mission schemes.
"West Bengal tops in executing the Clean Ganga mission schemes among the five states through which the Ganges flows. The other four states are Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. This is given in a recent report of the Ministry of Water Resources," Banerjee said in a Facebook post.
She said that the data shows Bengal also has the highest number of sanctioned projects and completed 24 out of the 30 sanctioned projects.
These projects are being implemented in 24 towns across the state, with a sanctioned cost of Rs 1352 crore.
A meeting held in Delhi recently showed the state has topped in executing the clean Ganga mission schemes among the five states through which the Ganges flows.
The meeting was held by officials of the ministry of water resources to review the performance of the five Ganga states in implementing said schemes.
