Kolkata/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the meeting of the 'National Ganga Council' (NGC) here on Dec 30, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here on Wednesday.

The prime minister is the president of the council.

Banerjee said she has received an invitation to the meeting and would attend it in her capacity as the chief minister of a member-state of the council.