{"id":97308,"date":"2021-03-23T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=97308"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:40:17","slug":"pm-launched-jal-shakti-abhiyan-catch-the-rain-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-launched-jal-shakti-abhiyan-catch-the-rain-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"PM launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan: &#8216;Catch the Rain&#8217; campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Prime Minister has launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-to-expand-activities-under-jal-shakti-abhiyan-during-monsoon\/\"><strong>Jal Shakti Abhiyan:<\/strong><\/a> Catch the Rain campaign on World Water Day.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Catch the Rain Campaign:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Catch the Rain <\/strong>is a Jan Andolan campaign. It aims to take water conservation at the grass-roots level through people\u2019s participation. The campaign intends to accelerate water conservation across the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To encourage all stakeholders to create rainwater harvesting structures(RWHS). As it is suitable for the climatic conditions and subsoil strata. These structures will ensure the proper storage of rainwater.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tag line<\/strong>: Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Implementation: <\/strong>The campaign will be implemented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-water-mission-awards-2019\/\">National Water Mission(NWM)<\/a>, Ministry of Jal Shakti.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coverage: <\/strong>The campaign will take place across the country, in both rural and urban areas. It will be implemented from March 22 to November 30 (the pre-monsoon and monsoon period) in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Key activities under the Catch the Rain Campaign:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Catch the Rain Campaign will include certain key activities like,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, removal of encroachments <\/strong>and desilting of tanks. This will increase rainwater storage capacity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, the campaign includes drives to make water harvesting pits, rooftop RWHS and check dams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly, removal of obstructions <\/strong>in the channels bringing water from the catchment areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourthly, repairs to traditional Water Harvesting Systems(WHS)<\/strong> like step-wells. Further, using defunct bore-wells and old wells to put the water back to aquifers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finally, states have been requested to open Rain Centers <\/strong>in each district. These Rain Centres will act as a technical guidance centre in RWHS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About World Water Day:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Water Day <\/strong>is being observed on 22 March by the United Nations (UN).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: To raise awareness about people living without access to safe water and tackle the global water crisis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme of world water day 2021: \u201c<\/strong>Valuing Water\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1706580\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Prime Minister has launched the Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain campaign on World Water Day. About Catch the Rain Campaign: Catch the Rain is a Jan Andolan campaign. It aims to take water conservation at the grass-roots level through people\u2019s participation. The campaign intends to accelerate water conservation across&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-launched-jal-shakti-abhiyan-catch-the-rain-campaign\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan: &#8216;Catch the Rain&#8217; campaign<\/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":[1566,956,9,959],"tags":[1332],"class_list":["post-97308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-geog_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700786145,"cached_date":1701780530},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97308","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=97308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}