{"id":54296,"date":"2021-10-03T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=54296"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:46:03","slug":"government-declares-chacha-chaudhary-as-official-mascot-of-namami-gange-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/government-declares-chacha-chaudhary-as-official-mascot-of-namami-gange-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Declares Chacha Chaudhary as official Mascot of \u2018Namami Gange&#8217; Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The iconic Indian comic book cartoon character,&nbsp;<strong>Chacha Chaudhary<\/strong>,&nbsp;whose brain works faster than a computer, has been declared as the official mascot&nbsp;for the centrally-sponsored&nbsp;<strong>NamamiGangeProgramme.<\/strong> Union Minister of Jal Shakti&nbsp;Gajendra Singh Shekhawat&nbsp;announced the appointment of&nbsp;Chacha Chaudhary as the mascot for the mission on Friday, saying that the Centre was making an effort to&nbsp;connect children with the campaign of river cleanliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An outlay of&nbsp;<strong>Rs. 2.26 crore<\/strong>&nbsp;has been dedicated to the project. The comics will initially be launched in<strong>&nbsp;Hindi, English, and Bengali languages.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has tied up with Diamond Toons, the publisher of the Chacha Chaudhary comics, to conceptualize, develop and distribute the new comics, e-comics, and animated videos featuring the cartoon character. Chacha Chaudhary has been chosen to especially connect children with the campaign of river cleanliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Union Government, Namami Gange is not&nbsp;just a program for cleaning river Ganga but an effort to bring collective consciousness among the masses. The initiative brings together Central and State ministries under a common &#8216;task force&#8217; for the mission and ensures smooth coordination among agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Indian comic book cartoon character,&nbsp;Chacha Chaudhary,&nbsp;whose brain works faster than a computer, has been declared as the official mascot&nbsp;for the centrally-sponsored&nbsp;NamamiGangeProgramme. Union Minister of Jal Shakti&nbsp;Gajendra Singh Shekhawat&nbsp;announced the appointment of&nbsp;Chacha Chaudhary as the mascot for the mission on Friday, saying that the Centre was making an effort to&nbsp;connect children with the campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":54297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[1948,2842],"class_list":["post-54296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-namami-gange","tag-national-mission-for-clean-ganga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115311,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54296\/revisions\/115311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}