Jamshedpur, Dec. 13 -- Five cities from Jharkhand, including Adityapur and Ranchi, have been included in the list of 62 cities across India for preparing Urban River Management Plans (URMPs) under the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) sanctioned Plan-2026.

"The state government told the assembly that five cities - Adityapur, Ranchi (the originating city of the Subarnarekha river), Dhanbad, Chas and Sahibganj/Rajmahal - have been included in the first phase under the NMCG for preparing URMPs. I had requested the state government to make public the detailed plans prepared for Ranchi and Jamshedpur under the River Cities Alliance (RCA) initiative by the Union ministry of jal shakti and the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs. ...