Water structures at 44,000 villages to be mapped under Jalyukta Shivar 3.0

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) volition beryllium signed betwixt the 2 bodies to facilitate the enactment utilizing the GIS.
Each h2o conservation centre volition beryllium marked connected the representation utilizing circumstantial markings and they volition beryllium physically verified to analyse its contiguous status.

“This volition beryllium the first-of-its-kind workout wherever full information of village-level h2o conservation structures volition beryllium collected. It volition assistance recognize the indispensable works to beryllium carried retired successful respective areas based connected the contiguous information of the structures,” said Priya Khan, Officer connected Special Duty (OSD) moving with the CMO, with a work of execution of the scheme.

All h2o conservation structures, but dams, volition beryllium mapped nether the strategy — cheque dams, workplace ponds, K T Weir, contour bunds and watershed development.

The h2o conservation structures to beryllium mapped volition see those constructed by the authorities government, section civic bodies, those built nether the firm societal work (CSR) oregon by NGOs successful collaboration with locals.

In 2015, Maharashtra authorities had launched the Jalyukta Shivar scheme to marque Maharashtra drought-free.

In its archetypal version, a full of 22,000 villages were covered and works specified arsenic deepening and widening of streams, operation of cement and earthen halt dams, enactment connected nullahs and digging of workplace ponds were undertaken.

In 2022, Jalyukta Shivar 2.0 nether past Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was approved which catered to astir 5,000 villages. The caller mentation of the strategy was a premix of method and societal attack towards h2o conservation. The societal facet progressive spreading consciousness astir h2o literacy, h2o absorption and conservation principles.