{"id":144900,"date":"2021-11-03T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=144900"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:48:13","slug":"union-minister-for-jal-shakti-inaugurates-ganga-utsav-2021-the-river-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-for-jal-shakti-inaugurates-ganga-utsav-2021-the-river-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister for Jal Shakti inaugurates \u2018Ganga Utsav 2021 \u2013 The River Festival\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union minister for Jal Shakti has launched <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">several initiatives during <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5th edition of Ganga Utsav.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the initiatives launched?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h6><b>Continuous Learning and Activity Portal (CLAP)<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><b>Developed by: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/initiatives-under-namami-gange-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG)<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drishtiias.com\/daily-updates\/daily-news-analysis\/national-mission-for-clean-ganga#:~:text=National%20River%20Ganga%20Basin%20Authority,'National%20River'%20of%20India.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in association with Tree Craze Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose of the Portal:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an interactive portal that is working towards initiating conversations and action around the rivers in India. The Portal is also a platform to facilitate debates and discussions and express ideas on various issues pertaining to the environment, water and rivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Funded and supported by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The World Bank.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Ganga Atlas<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was developed by IIT Kanpur. It documents the changes in River Ganga over the past 5-6 decades in terms of channel morphology, land use &amp; land cover, river dynamics and associated issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Ganga Mashal<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an expedition led by the Ganga Task Force (GTF). They will travel across 23 stations along the river Ganga to help sensitize the local people and organizations like Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan(NYKS) and Voluntary groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: GTF<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a unit of a battalion of ex-servicemen deployed in the services of the Ganga with the approval of the Ministry of Defence for the period of four years till December 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Ganga Quest<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>It\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">national online quiz on Ganga, rivers, and the environment. The quiz was first conceptualized in 2019 as an educational program to sensitize children and youth towards River Ganga to strengthen the Namami Gange program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Union Minister for Jal Shakti inaugurates Ganga Utsav 2021 \u2013 The River Festival<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>\u201cPIB\u201d <\/b>on <b>1st November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Union minister for Jal Shakti has launched several initiatives during the 5th edition of Ganga Utsav. What are the initiatives launched? Continuous Learning and Activity Portal (CLAP) Developed by: \u00a0National Mission for Clean Ganga(NMCG) \u00a0in association with Tree Craze Foundation. Purpose of the Portal: It is an interactive portal that is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-for-jal-shakti-inaugurates-ganga-utsav-2021-the-river-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister for Jal Shakti inaugurates \u2018Ganga Utsav 2021 \u2013 The River Festival\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,956,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704834238},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}