Agra (Uttar Pradesh): Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has claimed that during former prime minister late Rajiv Gandhi's tenure, Rs. 5,000 crore was spent on cleaning the Yamuna which yielded no results but after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the government initiated projects to clean not only river Ganga but also the river Yamuna.

In 1986, the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga action plan with the key objective of removing the pollutants from the river and to improve its water quality. When Prime Minister Modi came to power, Centre's flagship Namami Gange Programme was approved by the Union Government in June 2014 with a planned budget of Rs. 20,000 crore.