Question

What does NGRBA stand for
(a) National Ganga River Basin Authority
(b) National Ganga River Basin Association
(c) National Ganges River Basin Authority
(d) National Ganges River Basin Association

Answer 1

Hint: Human beings have been abusing the water bodies around the world by disposing into them all kinds of waste, due to such activities the Government of India has passed the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) act, 1974 to safeguard our water resources and maintain the cleanliness of water bodies.

Complete answer:
NGRBA stands for the National Ganga River Basin Authority. It plans, implements, finances, coordinates, and monitors authority for the Ganga river functioning under the water resource ministry of India.
The mission of the NGRBA organization is to safeguard the drainage basin which feeds water into Ganga by protecting it from pollution and over-use.
In July 2014, The NGRBA was transferred from the ministry of environment and forest to the Ministry of water resources, river development, and Ganga rejuvenation.

Additional Information:
-National Ganga River Basin Authority was started with an appeal to conquer the challenges possessed to maintain Ganges cleanliness which is affected by the sectors like riverfront development, industrial pollution, etc.
-NGRBA functions include the development of the Ganga river basin management plan to maintain water quality, to make measures relevant to river ecology in Ganga basin states, and to control pollution.
-The authority is shared by the prime minister and has as its member the union minister, CM of States through which Ganga flows i.e. Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, etc.

So, the answer is ' National Ganga River Basin Authority'.

Note: National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was registered on 12th August 2011. It acted like an implementation arm on NGRBA.