Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Polluted Lakes, 25/04/2016. Based on the proposals received from different States, the Ministry has so far sanctioned projects for conservation of 63 lakes in 14 States at a total cost of 1096.09 crores under the NLCP/NPCA. So far, an amount of 635.902 crore has been released for the sanctioned projects and work on 33 lakes has been completed. The State wise details of amount sanctioned and released to the State Governments so far are given in Annexure-I.