{"id":14667,"date":"2016-08-17T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2016-08-17T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T09:40:05","slug":"smart-ganga-city-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/smart-ganga-city-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Ganga City Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti and Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu launched Smart Ganga City Scheme in how many cities?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 15<br \/>\n(b) 10<br \/>\n(c) 12<br \/>\n(d) 18<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 13 August 2016 Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti and Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu launched Smart Ganga City Scheme in ten important cities through video conference.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">These cities are \u2013 Haridwar, Rishikesh, Mathura-Vrindavan, Varanasi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Patna, Sahibgunj and Barrackpore.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has chosen these cities in the first phase for infrastructure development for sewage treatment.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will be on hybrid annuity mode based on PPP model.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the first phase only ten cities have been taken up but gradually more and more cities will be taken up.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In previous schemes, Centre and states borne 70:30 ratios of the costs for setting up STPs. Now the programme will be completely Centre-sponsored.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">District level mentoring committees will be constituted to monitor the speedy implementation of Namami Gange programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148890\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148890<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/infrastructure\/smart-ganga-city-programme-launched-in-10-cities\/articleshow\/53686473.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/economy\/infrastructure\/smart-ganga-city-programme-launched-in-10-cities\/articleshow\/53686473.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti and Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu launched Smart Ganga City Scheme in how many cities? (a) 15 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 18 Ans: (b) Related facts: On 13 August 2016 Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}