Environment · 25 Jul 2026
The River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Authorities Order, 2016, which prohibits construction in the Ganga's active floodplain, was issued under which one of the following Acts?
The Supreme Court gave the Bihar government a six-week deadline to clear unauthorised structures along the Ganga in Patna, after only 55 of 213 identified encroachments had been removed despite the decade-old prohibition.
UPSC frequently tests which parent Act empowers a specific environmental order or notification - a precise, easily-confused static fact anchored to a live current-affairs case.
The River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Authorities Order, 2016 was issued under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and bans construction in the Ganga's active floodplain.
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