NGRBA sounds like it hands power to state governments on rotation. It actually keeps the Prime Minister in the chair the whole time.
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What NGRBA Actually Does and Who Actually Chairs It
- River Basin as Unit NGRBA treats the river basin as the unit of planning and management, an internationally accepted strategy for river conservation.
- National-Level Leadership NGRBA spearheads river conservation efforts at the national level, with implementation carried out by state agencies and urban local bodies.
- PM Chairs, Not a Rotating CM NGRBA is chaired by the Prime Minister. No Chief Minister of a Ganga-basin state takes the chair on rotation.
- Two of Three Are Real Only the river-basin-unit and national-leadership claims are correct. The rotating-chairmanship claim is false.
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How NGRBA Is Actually Structured
- Set Up in 2009 NGRBA was established in 2009 to ensure conservation of the Ganga through comprehensive basin-wide planning.
- Union Ministers as Members Besides the Prime Minister as chair, NGRBA includes concerned Union Ministers and the Chief Ministers of Ganga-basin states as ordinary members.
- State-Level Support Bodies At the state level, State Ganga River Conservation Authorities support NGRBA, each chaired by that state’s own Chief Minister.
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UPSC CSP 2016 — Key Features of NGRBA
- UPSC 2016 River basin as the planning unit and national-level leadership are genuine NGRBA features. Rotating CM chairmanship is false; the Prime Minister chairs it. See UPSC CSP 2016 GS Paper I, Q23. View this question.
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NGRBA’s Successor and Legacy
- Superseded by NMCG NGRBA’s functions were later absorbed into the National Mission for Clean Ganga under the Namami Gange programme.
- Five Basin States The Ganga flows through Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal, all represented on NGRBA.
- Connects to Other PYQ Facts This same PM-chairmanship structure recurs across other national river and environmental authorities UPSC tests.
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