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Name of the battalion of territorial army(ta) which is being raised by government as part of its mission to clean the ganga by 2020

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Territorial Army battalion of ex-Armymen to clean Ganga

This battalion will be raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, next month as a Composite Ecological Task Force (CETF) battalion of TA for National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).

Written by Sushant Singh | New Delhi |Published: January 9, 2018 2:00 am



The government has allocated Rs 167 crore for the battalion under NMCG.

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AS PART of its mission to clean the Ganga by 2020, the Central government has sanctioned the raising of a Territorial Army (TA) battalion comprising ex-servicemen of the Army.

This battalion will be raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, next month as a Composite Ecological Task Force (CETF) battalion of TA for National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).

The government has allocated Rs 167 crore for the battalion under NMCG, the nodal agency for cleaning the Ganga. The battalion will work on a book debit system with funding provided from the budget of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

Due to the slow pace of progress, it is feared that the government may miss its deadline of making the Ganga clean by 2020. This was noted by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources last year.

In December 2017, a CAG report tabled in Parliament noted that the NMCG “could not utilise any amount out of the Clean Ganga Fund”, which meant that the entire amount of Rs 198.14 crore — as of 31 March 2017 —was lying in banks.