{"id":239513,"date":"2023-04-25T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239513"},"modified":"2023-04-26T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T12:26:25","slug":"indias-first-water-body-census-how-was-it-done-what-does-the-report-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-water-body-census-how-was-it-done-what-does-the-report-say\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first water body census: How was it done, what does the report say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cIndia\u2019s first water body census: How was it done, what does the report say\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on <b>25th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Jal Shakti has released the report of India\u2019s first water bodies census, a comprehensive database of ponds, tanks, lakes, and reservoirs in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the need for a water bodies census?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centre earlier maintained a database of water bodies that were getting central assistance under the Scheme of Repair, Renovation and Restoration (RRR) of water bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, a Standing Committee of Parliament pointed to the need to carry out a separate census of water bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government then commissioned the first census of water bodies in 2018-19 along with the sixth Minor Irrigation (MI) census.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the objective of the first water bodies census?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-ever-census-on-water-bodies-in-india\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What does the census reveal about the encroachment of water bodies?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The census found that 1.6% of enumerated water bodies \u2014 38,496 out of 24,24,540 \u2014 had been encroached upon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 95% of these were in rural areas \u2014 which is logical because more than 97% of the water bodies covered by the census were in the rural areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uttar Pradesh accounted for almost 40% (15,301) of water bodies under encroachment, followed by Tamil Nadu (8,366) and Andhra Pradesh (3,920).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No encroachment was reported from West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia\u2019s first water body census: How was it done, what does the report say\u201d published in Indian Express on 25th April 2023 What is the News? The Ministry of Jal Shakti has released the report of India\u2019s first water bodies census, a comprehensive database of ponds, tanks,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-first-water-body-census-how-was-it-done-what-does-the-report-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s first water body census: How was it done, what does the report say<\/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":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10500,11474],"class_list":["post-239513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-indian-express","tag-waterbody-census","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239513","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=239513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}