The Prime Minister has launched a Mission Amrit Sarovar.<\/span><\/p>\n Aim: <\/b>To develop and rejuvenate 75 water bodies in each district of the country as a part of the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. In total, it would lead to the creation of 50,000 water bodies of a size of about an Acre or more.<\/span><\/p>\n Participating Ministries\/Departments<\/b>: Department of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Forest, Environment and Climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n Technical Partner: <\/b>Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics(BISAG-N).<\/span><\/p>\n Duration of the mission: <\/b>The Mission Amrit Sarovar is to be completed by 15<\/span>th<\/span> August 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Refocusing of Schemes:<\/b> The Mission works through the States and Districts through refocusing of various schemes such as MGNREGA, 15th Finance Commission Grants, PMKSY sub-schemes such as Watershed Development Component, Har Khet Ko Pani besides States own schemes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 The mission also encourages the mobilization of citizen and non-govt resources for supplementing these efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n Minimum Area:<\/b> This Amrit Sarovar will be constructed on at least 1 acre of land with a water holding capacity of about 10,000 cubic meters.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Mission Amrit Sarovar- A high-level meeting held to review the progress of the Mission under the chairmanship of Secretary, Rural Development<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on 11th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Prime Minister has launched a Mission Amrit Sarovar. What is Mission Amrit Sarovar? Aim: To develop and rejuvenate 75 water bodies in each district of the country as a part of the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. In total, it would lead to the creation of 50,000 water bodies… Continue reading Mission Amrit Sarovar- A high level meeting held to review the progress of the Mission under the chairmanship of Secretary, Rural Development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-184077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Mission Amrit Sarovar?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Implementation Strategy<\/b><\/h5>\n