{"id":6000,"date":"2022-12-10T05:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:40:25","slug":"what-is-the-national-mission-for-clean-ganga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-national-mission-for-clean-ganga\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the National Mission for Clean Ganga?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the National Mission for Clean ganga:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NMCG was established in 2011 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 as a registered society.<\/li>\n<li>NMCG under National Ganga Council is supported by the State level Programme Management Groups (SPMGs) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.<\/li>\n<li>It is an initiative taken by the Government of India to address the pollution of the river Ganga by providing financial and technical assistance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aims and objectives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To accomplish the mandate of National Ganga Council<\/li>\n<li>Prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution and rejuvenation of the river Ganga by adopting a river basin approach.<\/li>\n<li>To maintain minimum ecological flows in the river Ganga with the aim of ensuring water quality and environmentally sustainable development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vision:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Restoring the wholesomeness of the river defined in terms of ensuring:\n<ul>\n<li>Aviral Dhara &#8211; that is continuous flow of water<\/li>\n<li>Nirmal Dhara &#8211; that is unpolluted flow of water<\/li>\n<li>Geologic and ecological integrity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structure:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a two-tier management structure, comprising of Governing Council and Executive Committee<\/li>\n<li>The work of coordinating, supervising and deliberating on funding Namami Ganga projects is carried out by an executive committee of the NMCG that meets every month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In 2020, the World Bank has approved a five-year loan (for the second phase) to the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) or Namami Gange Project worth Rs.3,000 crore to help stem pollution in the Ganga river basin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is NGRBA?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The \u2018National Ganga River Basin Authority\u2019 (NGRBA) was set up by the Central Government on 20th Feb, 2009 as a collaborative institution of Central and State Governments under the Environment (Protection) Act (EPA) of 1986 for abatement of pollution of River Ganga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Jal-Shakti-Minister-Gajendra-Singh-Shekhawat-chairs-10th-meeting-of-Empowered-Task-Force-of--National-Mission-for-Clean-Ganga&amp;id=452072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMCG is an initiative to address pollution of Ganga &#038; accomplish the mandate of National Ganga Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6000","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\/6000","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=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}