As many as eight demonstrative recharge studies were approved for implementation in over-exploited and hilly areas including one in Arunachal Pradesh and one in Assam, official sources said on Monday.
With the Pagladiya project suffering inordinate delays, the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) is toying with the idea of shifting the project to upper reaches to neighbouring Bhutan.
This idea was discussed at a meeting between Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi and Union Minister of State for Water Resources, Vincent H Pala here on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: Against the backdrop of a looming below-normal rainfall this monsoon, the Union Ministry of Water Resources on Wednesday issued new directives to provide water to the needy areas and called for reports from the States on the progress of creating of water sources under various schemes.
The Centre is unlikely to offer further funding to States on the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) unless the State authorities briefed the Union Water Resource Ministry on the progress so far on the scheme.
Patna: The eastern Kosi embankment was safe and there was no need to panic, Bihar Water Resources Development Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said on Friday.
There has been a lot of panic following the reported breach of three coffer dams at Kusaha on May 26, resulting into heavy discharge of water into the Kosi river from Nepal.
The people of Sylhet and north-eastern side of the country are seriously opposing the construction of Tipaimukh Dam project on Borak River at the upper reaches of Rivers Surma and Kushiara, which is located just a kilometre from the border of Zakiganj in Sylhet.
The officially appointed Environmental Expert Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. Devendra Pandey, Director, Forest Survey of India to review the studies, planning and implementation of environmental safeguards for Sardar Sarovar and Indira Sagar Projects has submitted its Interim Report to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is the first ever law internationally, that guarantees wage employment at an unprecedented scale. NREGA aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled, manual work.
