The Indian government has signed a $1 billion loan with multilateral lending agency, the World Bank, to help support the cleaning of the Ganga river.
A National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) has been set up under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with chief ministers of the five states through which the Ganga flows, including Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, being
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/govt-bank-ink-2-environment-deals
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-age-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ganga
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttaranchal-uttarakhand
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttar-pradesh
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bihar
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/jharkhand
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industrial-pollution
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ganga-action-plan
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/world-bank
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-environment-and-forests-moef
