Question: In which city National Urban River Management Plan was launched recently by Jal Shakti Minister?
(a) Prayagraj
(b) Kanpur
(c) Indore
(d) None of the above
Ans: b
Related Facts
- On November 25 2021, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched River Cities Alliance and National Urban River Management Plan for Kanpur in New Delhi.
- The River Cities Alliance is the alliance for cleaning and preserving rivers across India and its core motto is to improve rivers and cities together.
- Thirty major cities across the country has joined the alliance so far.
- The participating cities in the River Cities Alliance are Dehradun, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Srinagar, Begusarai, Bhagalpur, Munger, Patna, Berhampore, Hooghly-Chinsurah, Howrah, Jangipur, Maheshtala, Rajmahal, Sahibganj, Ayodhya, Bijnor, Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Mathura-Vrindavan, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Aurangabad, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Pune, Udaipur and Vijayawada.
- The River Cities Alliance can play a crucial role in connecting cities with their rivers, and it can become a model for all cities in the Basin and beyond to emulate.
- Urban River Management Plan has the overall objective to assist cities along the Ganga River (referred to as Ganga towns hereafter in the document) improve the state of the river in their stretch.
Kameshwar Shukla
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