CAG found delays in 26 of 46 Namami Gange schemes in 2017
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
The Namami Gange hybrid annuity model pays contractors 60 percent of capital over 15 years, and a 2017 CAG audit found delays in 26 of 46 schemes. At stake are the Ganga and Yamuna rivers, which the reporting says still receive untreated sewage.
- Annuity contractors — Receive 60 percent of capital over 15 years under the model PRS India
- Taxpayers — Pay the annuities; Delhi spent 6,856 crore rupees on the Yamuna in 2017–22 Tribune India
- Downstream communities on the Ganga and Yamuna — Exposed to untreated sewage discharges; the sources give no population figure Down To Earth
What happened
PRS India reported that the Namami Gange hybrid annuity model pays 60 percent of capital over 15 years, and that a 2017 CAG audit found delays in 26 of 46 schemes.
Tribune India reported that Delhi spent 6,856 crore rupees on the Yamuna in 2017–22, and that 84 percent of the pollution came from two drains.
Down To Earth reported a CAG audit finding that 12 of 44 sewage treatment plants in Uttarakhand discharged untreated sewage into the Ganga.
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Lawsuits and rulings
Insurers
What we don't know
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record Not reported in the sources reviewed: the total cost of the annuity payments or the number of plants built under the model.
- None on record Not reported in the sources reviewed: the scope of the 46 schemes that the CAG audited.
- None on record The sources reviewed give no date for the Down To Earth report of the CAG audit.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Press and investigations
- 6,856 cr spent but capital's lifeline Yamuna continues to dieTribune India · 2025
- CAG audit of sewage treatment plants in UttarakhandDown To Earth ·
Communities and civil society
- Audit: Namami GangePRS India ·
Connected cases
- CAG audit finds 12 of 44 Ganga sewage plants discharge untreated water India · date not stated
- Namami Gange programme (Government programme) — here: Government programme that pays the annuities; there: programme whose hybrid annuity model pays contractors
- Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Public authority) — here: Auditor that found delays and untreated discharges; there: audit body that found the untreated discharge
- Great Nicobar project compensatory afforestation (India) India · 2023–2025
- Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Public authority) — here: Auditor that found delays and untreated discharges; there: Auditor that reported on the compensatory afforestation fund
- India CAMPA compensatory afforestation fund India · 2006–2025
- Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Public authority) — here: Auditor that found delays and untreated discharges; there: Auditor: found misuse in Uttarakhand; 2013 audit of planting