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Ganga Action Plan
It was the first River Action Plan that started in 1985 . Hence, Statement 1 is correct.
The nodal ministry is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Hence statement 2 is correct.
At the time of launching, the main objective of GAP was to improve the water quality of Ganga to acceptable standards by preventing the pollution load from reaching the river.
However, as decided in a meeting of the Monitoring Committee in June 1987 under the Chairmanship of Prof. M. G. K. Menon , then Member, Planning Commission, the objective of GAP was recast as restoring the river water quality to the 'Bathing Class' standard.
National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was registered as a society on 12th August 2011 under the Societies Registration Act 1860.
It acted as the implementation arm of the National Ganga River Basin Authority(NGRBA) which was constituted under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act (EPA),1986.
Hence, statement 3 is correct.
NGRBA has since been dissolved with effect from the 7th October 2016 , consequent to the constitution of National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection, and Management of River Ganga (referred to as National Ganga Council).
The Act envisages a five-tier structure at national, state, and district level to take measures for prevention, control, and abatement of environmental pollution in river Ganga and to ensure continuous adequate flow of water to rejuvenate the river Ganga as below;
1. National Ganga Council under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India .
2. Empowered Task Force (ETF) on river Ganga under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Union Minister of Jal Shakti (Department of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation).
3. National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG).
4. State Ganga Committees and
5. District Ganga Committees in every specified district abutting river Ganga and its tributaries in the states.
NMCG has a two-tier management structure and comprises of Governing Council and Executive Committee.
Both of them are headed by Director General, NMCG. Executive Committee has been authorized to accord approval for all projects up to Rs.1000 crore.
Similar to the structure at the national level, State Programme Management Groups (SMGs) acts as implementing arm of State Ganga Committees.
Thus the newly created structure attempts to bring all stakeholders on one platform to take a holistic approach towards the task of Ganga cleaning and rejuvenation.
The Director-General (DG) of NMCG is an Additional Secretary in Government of India .
For effective implementation of the projects under the overall supervision of NMCG, the State Level Program Management Groups (SMGs)are, also headed by senior officers of the concerned States
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