{"id":17956,"date":"2023-12-09T05:39:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2025-04-05T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:15:24","slug":"river-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/river-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"River Cities Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About River Cities Alliance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched\u00a0in 2021.<\/li>\n<li>It is a first-of-its-kind Alliance in the world, symbolising the successful partnership of the two Ministries i.e.,\u00a0the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Objective:\u00a0To provide the member cities with a platform to discuss and exchange information on aspects that are vital for\u00a0sustainable management of urban rivers, sharing best practices and\u00a0supporting innovation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Alliance is open to all river cities of India. Any river city can join the Alliance at any time.<\/li>\n<li>The alliance has been launched\u00a0initially with 30 cities namely Dehradun, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Srinagar, Varanasi, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Farrukhabad, Mirzapur, Mathura, Bijnor, Ayodhya, Patna, Bhagalpur, Begusarai, Munger, Sahibganj, Rajmahal, Howrah, Jangipur, Hugli-Chinsurah, Behrampore, Maheshtala, Aurangabad, Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Pune, Udaipur and Vijaywada.<\/li>\n<li>It focuses on three broad themes-\u00a0Networking, Capacity Building and Technical Support.<\/li>\n<li>The Secretariat of the Alliance is set up at the\u00a0National Institute for Urban Affairs (NIUA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an institute for research, training and information dissemination in urban development and management in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1976 as an autonomous body under the Societies Registration Act. The Institute is supported by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1984100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India\u2019s River Cities Alliance Goes Global as NMCG forges alliance with MRCTI, USA at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Cities Alliance is a first-of-its-kind Alliance in the world, symbolising the successful partnership of the two Ministries i.e., the Ministry of Jal Shakti and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}