Question

New center for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies is launched in
(a)New Delhi
(b)Kanpur
(c)Lucknow
(d)Varanasi

Answer 1

Hint: Ganga River Basin Management and Studies comes under the NGRBA or the National Ganga River Basin Authority. NGRBA’s mission is to safeguard the drainage basin and maintain water quality. A new center for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies is launched in the second-largest city in Uttar Pradesh which is famous for leather and textile industries.

Complete Answer:
Ganga River Basin Management and Studies comes under the NGRBA and develops plans to maintain the water quality of the Ganges. It draws measures relevant to river ecology in the Ganga basin states and strives to control pollution. A new center of this body has been set up in Uttar Pradesh in the city of Kanpur.

Additional Information:
NGRBA or the National Ganga River Basin Authority plans, implements, finances, coordinates, and monitors different schemes and is the authority for the Ganga river functioning established under the water resource ministry of our country.
The mission of the NGRBA is to safeguard the drainage basin which feeds water into the Ganges by protecting it from overuse and pollution.
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.
The National Ganga River Basin Authority was started with an appeal to conquer the challenges possessed to maintain the cleanliness of the Ganges which is affected by the sectors like riverfront development, industrial pollution, etc.

So, the correct answer is, “Kanpur”

Note:
-The authority NGRBA 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.
-Other than the planning and management arm which is the Ganga River Basin Management and Studies, the National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG) was also established by the NGRBA on 12th August 2011 to act as an implementation arm of the authority.