River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti has recently declared that 231 projects were inaugurated at various locations in Uttrakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana and Delhi. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi the Minister said 47 such projects were inaugurated at various locations in Dehradun, Garhwal, Tehri garhwal, Rudraprayag, Haridwar and Chamoli districts of Uttrakhand. The main function was held at Haridwar, which was attended by Uttrakhand CM Shri Harish Rawat and Union Ministers Shri Nitin Gadkari, Choudhary Birender Singh, Shri Mahesh Sharma and Sushri Uma Bharti.
20 projects of Namami Gange were inaugurated at various locations in North 24 pargana, Nadia, South 24 pargana and Howrah districts of West Bengals. The main programme was held at Budge Budge. 26 projects were inaugurated at various locations in Buxar, Vaishali, Saran, Patna and Bhagalpur districts of Bihar. Main function was held at Patna. 112 projects under Namami Gange programme were inaugurated at various locations in Amroha, Bijnor, Hapur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Mathura, Allahabad, Varanasi, Farukhabad and Kanpur districts. The main functions were held simultaneously at Narora, Mathura , Varanasi and Kanpur.