District Ganga Committees are at the grass-root level or the bottom most layer of the NMCG structure. It is chaired by DMs and DFOs are its member Secretaries. 

Asok Kumar's unique initiative of the DGC forum or the District Ganga Committee 4M (Monthly Mandated, Minuted and Monitored) meetings made a significant paradigm shift in the monitoring and management of Namami Gange activities. Staring from 6th April, 2022 all DGCS were asked to meet on a fixed day and  time of a month (recommended is the second Friday of the month , afternoon) with definite agenda.

On 6th April 2022, Asok Kumar started the concept of DGC forum meetings- a mandated monthly fixed meetings of District Ganga Committees formed earlier. 139 DGCs had held very few, or virtually nil meetings, till this was launched along with a portal -Ganga District Performance Monitoring System (GDPMS). From almost ZERO meetings at the start of April 2022, so far till December 2023,  DGCs have held 2493 meetings and their  MoM (Minutes of Meetings) uploaded to GDPMS. Meetings held under District Magistrates or the heads of the administration of districts on the banks of river Ganga, have  3 major agenda to deliberate.- “National or NMCG agenda,  local agenda and seasonal agenda. First is the “National or NMCG agenda” to discuss on the projects being taken up or to be taken up in the district to keep the river clean, monitor the drains out falling into the river, polluting industries etc. The second agenda is about the local issues like maintenance of ghats, natural farming, local festivals on river banks keeping them clean etc. The third is the “seasonal agenda” which deals with seasonal issues like “Catch the rain” campaign during monsoon, annual festivals, melas etc and to ensure that the river and its basin are kept clean. There has been a tremendous involvement of the local administration in management of the river. This decentralized involvement of local administration and stakeholders have attracted the attention of National Green Tribunal, which has started direct dialogues with the DGCs. They have been asked to prepare District Ganga Plans etc and oversee its implementation.

This is a great contribution of Asok Kumar to ensure sustenance and quality of the efforts done by Namami Gange to clean and rejuvenate River Ganga and its tributaries by actively involving local stakeholders and ensuring decentralized monitoring of the programs.