BackPM Narendra Modi to launch 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain' campaign today
The Prime Minister will launch the campaign at 12:30 pm today via video conferencingThe campaign will be implemented from 22 March to 30 November - the pre-monsoon and monsoon period in the country
PremiumPrime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the 'Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain' campaign on World Water Day, which is celebrated on Monday, 22 March every year.
The Prime Minister will launch the campaign at 12:30 pm today via video conferencing.
Sharing the news on Twitter, PM Modi wrote, "Tomorrow, on World Water Day, the 'Catch the Rain’ Movement would be launched at 12:30 PM. This movement will take place across India based on the theme of 'catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls.’ It will strengthen water conservation efforts happening in our country."
According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the campaign will be undertaken across the country, in both rural and urban areas, with the theme "catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls".
It will be implemented from 22 March to 30 November - the pre-monsoon and monsoon period in the country.
"The campaign will be launched as a Jan Andolan to take water conservation at the grass-root level through people's participation. It is intended to nudge all stakeholders to create rainwater harvesting structures suitable to the climatic conditions and subsoil strata, to ensure proper storage of rainwater," the statement read.
Interlinking of rivers project
Other than the launching of the campaign, Prime Minister Modi will witness the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to implement the Ken Betwa Link Project, the first project of the National Perspective Plan for interlinking of rivers.
"The agreement heralds the beginning of inter-state cooperation to implement the vision of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to carry water from areas that have surplus water to drought-prone and water deficit areas, through the interlinking of rivers. This project involves the transfer of water from the Ken to the Betwa River through the construction of Daudhan Dam and a canal linking the two rivers, the Lower Orr Project, Kotha Barrage and Bina Complex Multipurpose Project," the statement said.
The project will be of immense benefit to the water-starved region of Bundelkhand, especially to the districts of Panna, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Sagar, Damoh, Datia, Vidisha, Shivpuri and Raisen of Madhya Pradesh and Banda, Mahoba, Jhansi and Lalitpur of Uttar Pradesh.
It will pave the way for more interlinking of river projects to ensure that scarcity of water does not become an inhibitor for development in the country, it added.
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