NEW DELHI: Giving impetus to water conservation efforts, Centre has determined to assemble a million rainwater harvesting buildings, together with verify dams, percolation tanks and recharge wells, below a brand new initiative to boost groundwater replenishment throughout the nation earlier than the onset of subsequent 12 months’s monsoon.
The brand new initiative – Jal Sanchay, Jan Bhagidari (JSJB) – will strengthen the prevailing ‘Catch the Rain – The place it Falls When it Falls’ marketing campaign, launched in 1,592 blocks in 256 water harassed districts of the nation in 2019.
“It’s a community-led initiative which goals to boost water recharge via rainwater harvesting, aquifer recharge, borewell recharge and recharge shafts with useful resource assist from govt and non-govt assets like CSR funds, industrial homes, civic our bodies and water sector lovers who’re collectively working in direction of guaranteeing a water safe future,” mentioned a Jal Shakti ministry official.
“The important thing goal of the JSJB initiative is to make sure that each drop of water is conserved via collective efforts, following a whole-of-society and whole-of-govt method,” he mentioned.
The choice to assemble a million such buildings throughout India was taken after preliminary success of the initiative in Gujarat the place JSJB was launched in Surat final month.
Below the initiative, every district is tasked with guaranteeing that every one villages have not less than 5 recharge buildings to seize and retailer rainwater in a mission mode. In addition to, each municipal company has been requested to ascertain a minimal of 10,000 recharge buildings inside its jurisdiction.
A particular programme to showcase the potential of such initiative will likely be held in Surat on Sunday the place Jal Shakti minister C R Paatil and Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel are anticipated to commit for establishing 80,000 rainwater harvesting buildings throughout the state earlier than the following 12 months’s monsoon. The govts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are additionally anticipated to announce comparable commitments.
