{
 "no": 50,
 "id": "case-50",
 "sk": 20140601,
 "year": 2014,
 "date": "Launched 2014, ongoing",
 "cat": "Public money",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "Namami Gange. Tens of thousands of crore, a river still filthy",
 "stamp": "Money spent, results missing",
 "human": {
  "v": "The crores who live along a Ganga still carrying large volumes of untreated sewage",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Outlays of <b>₹20,000 cr</b> and then <b>₹22,500 cr</b>; over <b>₹13,000 cr</b> spent; CAG flagged unspent funds and failing sewage plants",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Launched in 2014 as the Prime Minister's flagship river-cleaning mission with an outlay of ₹20,000 crore, later topped up to ₹22,500 crore, Namami Gange has seen more than ₹13,000 crore spent, yet the Ganga still carries large volumes of untreated sewage.",
 "dodge": "Successive CAG audits have found underutilised funds, delayed and faulty sewage-treatment plants, and, in recent state audits, only a handful of plants meeting pollution norms, even as the government advertises the mission as a triumph. A decade and tens of thousands of crore later, the core promise of a clean Ganga is largely unmet, and the gap between the spending, the claims and the state of the river has never been honestly owned.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Union Jal Shakti Ministry",
   "r": "National Mission for Clean Ganga"
  },
  {
   "n": "Narendra Modi",
   "r": "Prime Minister (flagship project)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government says pollution has fallen, hundreds of sewage plants have been built or sanctioned, and wildlife such as river dolphins has returned.",
 "alt": "Tie funding to measurable water-quality outcomes, build and actually maintain the treatment plants, and publish honest, independent monitoring of the river against every rupee spent.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "CAG audit: unspent funds, delays (PRS summary)",
   "url": "https://prsindia.org/policy/report-summaries/audit-namami-gange",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260415041843/https://prsindia.org/policy/report-summaries/audit-namami-gange"
  },
  {
   "label": "₹33,000 cr spent, river still polluted (Scroll)",
   "url": "https://scroll.in/article/1056887/after-spending-rs-33000-crore-has-the-indian-government-finally-managed-to-clean-the-ganga",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "costInrCrore": 22500
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-50/"
}