Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah presided over the Flag-in ceremony of the Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan, organized under the National Mission for Clean Ganga, in New Delhi. From 1985 to 2014, the government had spent merely Rs 4,000 crore From 2015 to 2020, the Modi government has sanctioned Rs 20,000 crore and started the Namami Gange project. In the Ganga basin, the centre and state together flagged off 310 projects worth Rs 28,790 crores, of which 116 projects have been completed and rest are running smoothly which will be completed soon.