CBSE Class 9 Answered

The National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) deals with conserving and cleaning river waters. The National River Conservation Authority reviewed the progress and failures of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) phase I. The NRCP minutely studied the failures of the GAP and on the basis of the lessons learnt and experience gained from GAP phase I, the plan was applied to other major rivers of the country. The second phase of the GAP was merged with NRCP. The latter covers 152 towns located in 16 states. So far, 69 schemes of pollution abatement have been completed under the plan.