Maven eclipse plugin not found error

Error: The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found

If you get this error, please go to Maven local repository [ In my case C:\Documents and Settings\karthikeyanc\.m2] and navigate to org.apache.maven.plugins.
Delete the folder maven-eclipse-plugin from C:\Documents and Settings\karthikeyanc\.m2\org\apache\maven\plugins folder.

Now run commands like mvn eclipse:eclipse or mvn eclipse:clean and the commands will get executed without the above error.