REPORT ON JAL SHAKTI ABHIYAN  OUTCOMES AND LEARNINGS

The movement towards water conservation has to take place at the grassroots level.

- Shri , Prime Minister, Independence Day Speech, 15 Aug 2019 ह शेखावत जल श啍鄿 मं配셀ﴂगजेन्द्रस Gajendra Singh भारत सरकार Shekhawat Minister for Jal Shakti Government of

MESSAGE

Under the visionary leadership of the Hon’ble Prime Minister, India embarked on a historic journey in its approach to the water sector by integrating two key departments dealing with water: the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation-an efforts which has truly strengthened efforts for a holistic approach in the water sector. In his Mann Ki Baat address in June 2019, the Hon’ble Prime Minister made a clarion call to the people of India to come together and launch a jan andolan for water conservation, along the lines of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

That call to action led to the launch of the Jal Shakti Abhiyan in July 2019. The Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) has been a collaborative efforts of various Ministries of the and State Governments, coordinated by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, and has witnessed teams of officers from the central government working with district administrations in 1592 water stressed blocks in 256 districts, to ensure five important water conservation interventions.

The JSA manifested into a large-scale campaign which involved mass mobilization of different groups of people, which included school students, college students, swachhagrahis, Self Help Groups, Panchayati Raj Institution members, youth groups (NSS/NYKS/NCC), defence personnel, ex-servicemen and pensioners among various others.

I compliment all team Members involved at the national, state, district and village level for their remarkable contributions made during the campaign and call upon the people of India to scale up this programme over the next few years.

Jai Hind!

() जल श啍鄿 और सामाजिक ꅍयय सचिव रतन लाल कटारिया एवं अधिकारिता राज्य मं配셀 परमेश्वरन अय्यर भारत सरकार भारत सरकार Parameswaran Iyer पेयजल एवं स्वच्छता विभाग नई दि쥍ल-110001 जल श啍鄿 मं配रलय Minister of State for Secretary Jal Shakti And Social Justice Government of India & Empowerment Department of Drinking Government Of India, Water & Sanitation New Delhi - 110001 Ministry of Jal Shakti

MESSAGE FOREWORD

Laying impetus on jal sanchay, the Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) is a time-bound, mission-mode water Water is at the top of the development agenda today, having been placed there by the Hon’ble Prime conservation campaign which transformed into a people’s movement, with an array of stakeholders Minister time and again over the last year. Immediately after the creation of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, coming together and driving the campaign for water conservation. the Hon’ble Prime Minister called for a jan andolan for jan sanchay. This clarion call manifested into a massive water conservation movement – the Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA). In line with the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision for a people’s movement for water security, the JSA has been a collaborative efforts of various Ministries of the Government of India and State Governments. The JSA, an intensive campaign built on citizen participation to accelerate water conservation across The Abhiyan seamlessly dovetailed various institutions at the central and district levels, with its focus the country, ran in two phases: Phase 1 started from 1st July till 30th September 2019 for all States on the programmatic implementation of five key intervention areas: water conservation and rainwater and Union Territories; and Phase 2 started from 1st October till 30th November 2019 for States and harvesting, renovation of traditional and other water bodies/tanks, reuse and recharge of bore well Union Territories which receive the retreating monsoon (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Puducherry, and structures, watershed development, and intensive afforestation. These water conservation efforts Tamil Nadu). Led by the Minister of Jal Shakti, officers, groundwater experts and scientists from the were also supplemented with special interventions including the development of block and district Government of India worked together with state and district officials in India’s most water-stressed water conservation plans, and the promotion of efficient water use for irrigation and better choice of districts for water conservation and water resource management by focusing on the accelerated crops through Krishi Vigyan Kendras. implementation of five target interventions.

This final report of the JSA is an amalgamation of the rich and substantial observations and inputs The JSA witnessed collaborations by various stakeholders for promoting and facilitating water from the field which would be highly relevant for undertaking numerous jal sanchay initiatives, across conservation across India, in not only the specified districts, but far beyond the mandate as well. The the country in the future. I congratulate the team at Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, as the coordinating Department for the campaign, for their relentless effort in coordinating the initiative and I look forward to the campaign being coordinated with other implementing Departments regularly and, with active deliberations, charted implemented regularly in the coming years. out frameworks and parameters for the field visits of participating officials.

A great impetus to the campaign was also given by the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, which rendered support in developing tools to track the overall impact on groundwater levels, soil moisture Jai Hind! levels, and other parameters.

This final report of the JSA is a chronicle of the great effort made by the central, state and district levels, in accelerating the programmatic implementation of key interventions for water conservation and in generating the people’s movement for jal sanchay on the ground. (Rattan Lal Kataria)

(Parameswaran Iyer) In addition, the following special interventions Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and were carried out: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Prime i. Development of Block and District Water Minister along with ISRO and others are assisting Conservation Plans (To be integrated with the the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation District Irrigation Plans). in providing scientific inputs (like digital maps ii. Krishi Vigyan Kendra Melas to promote districts showing various layers like drainage, efficient water use for irrigation (More Crop per water bodies, MGNREGA works etc.) as well as in Drop), and a better choice of crops, for water outcome monitoring (Details in Annexure-II). conservation. The Department of Drinking Water and These areas of intervention broadly fell under Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti is the the mandate of the Ministry of Jal Shakti nodal department for the campaign. DDWS (the Department of Water Resources, River has constituted a JSA Secretariat consisting of 6 Development and Ganga Rejuvenation and the senior officers (including Secretary, DDWS). This Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation), committee is assisted by 6 Assistant Secretaries. Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, Ministry of

BACKGROUND The Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA), a collaborative effort of the Government of India and State Governments, was an intensive time-bound campaign to accelerate progress on water conservation activities in 1592 identified water-stressed blocks in 256 districts. 23 of these districts are aspirational districts.

Selection criteria for Water Stressed Blocks/Districts/States (National mapping at Annexure I): i. Water Stressed Blocks, for the purposes of this exercise, are those where groundwater levels are critical/ over-exploited [as per Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) 2017]. These fall under 20 States/UTs. ii. For other States, the district with least groundwater availability has been selected (as per CGWB2017).

Over- Other Blocks with Critical Total no. of Total no. of Total States/ exploited least groundwater Blocks Blocks Districts UTs Blocks availability

312 1186 94 1592 256 36

Under this campaign, targeted activities were iv. Watershed development undertaken under 5 key areas of intervention v. Intensive afforestation namely: Data on the above parameters from specific sites i. Water conservation and rainwater harvesting identified under the various interventions of the ii. Renovation of traditional and other water Abhiyan are analysed to measure outcomes in bodies/tanks consultation with the O/o the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India. iii. Reuse and recharge structures ROLL-OUT PROCESS MONITORING AND SUPPORT The campaign was carried out in two phases. Both Phase I and II involved 3 field visits each by There were various monitoring mechanisms A national-level JSA monitoring dashboard Phase I was being carried out between July the participating teams from the Government of in place to ensure seamless implementation has been developed that shows the progress 1 and September 15, 2019, for all States. India (GoI). The GoI teams consist of 256 Central and evaluation of outcomes. The monitoring of the States against key JSA interventions For States and Union Territories receiving Nodal Officers (CNOs) of Addl. Secretary/Joint mechanisms were as follows - and communications activities. the retreating monsoon, the campaign was Secretary level, 446 Block Nodal Officers (BNOs) i. Officers submitted their reports online on a conducted under Phase II between October 1st of Dy Secretary/Director level, 446 Technical designated portal (https://ejalshakti.gov.in/ and November 30th, 2019. Officers (TOs) from the Central Ground Water JSA) Board or the Central Water Commission, and Teams of officers from the central government, 169 Assistant Secretaries. A mobile application led by Additional Secretaries/ Joint Secretaries, ii. Real-time effective monitoring of campaign was developed to report feedback and key were mapped to each of the selected JSA with the use of mobile applications and observations from the teams including the geo- districts. The district administrations also monitoring dashboards tagging of assets being created. State-level nominated at least two members of their Nodal officers (SNOs) are responsible for overall iii. A Secretariat was being set up at the relevant departments to join these teams. coordination with Districts, CNOs and BNOs, Department of Drinking Water and The district administration provided the baseline and the implementation of JSA in their respective Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti data for all the interventions and then update States. data on progress under the key interventions. A portal was developed through which districts could report this progress.

- 256 Additional Secretaries/Joint Secretaries/JS level officers were the Central Nodal Officer and were mapped to one district each, covering all water-stressed Blocks falling within it. In the case of Aspirational Districts, the Prabhari Officer is the Centre Central Nodal Officer of the district. - Scientists/IITs for technical guidance. - National level NGOs for guidance on community mobilization

Additional Chief Secretary/ Prin Secy (PR & RD and/or WR) are the State State Nodal Officer

District 2 officials nominated by the District Collector joined the teams from the Centre.

A team of officials was formed for every 3-5 Blocks. Each of these teams reported to the Addl. Secy /JS or JS level officer-in-charge of their district. This team (447 in total) Blocks comprised of a Deputy Secretary/Director, and a representative/Engineer from Central Ground Water Board or Central Water Commission. The State Government also deputed the concerned officers from State and District levels to join these teams. ACHIEVEMENTS Watershed Development The outcome of the JSA is assessed on the following parameters – Staggered trenches, gully plugs, percolation tanks. i. Quantitative Achievements 1,686 9,444 7,909 122,884 a. The number of works undertaken under five interventions Gully plug Percolation Staggered Other watershed b. The number of works under special interventions Tank Trench construction c. %age Increase in measurement parameters of groundwater level activities ii. Qualitative Achievements – Stories from the field and innovations

Intensive Afforestation The plantation of trees consuming less water in public and forests lands. a) Quantitative Achievements 77,320 a. The number of works undertaken under five interventions in MNREGA Number of activities for Sapling plantation

Water Conservation & Rainwater Harvesting Rooftop rainwater harvesting structures at Individual household level, check dams, trenches, and farm ponds. b) The Number of Works Under Special Interventions 17,137 16,308 72,495 7,267 16,058

Check dams Trenches Ponds Other Other rainwater rainwater District & Block Water Conservation Plan harvesting conservation structures structures 1,372 blocks and 228 districts have developed their Block and District Water Conservation Plans

Renovation Of Traditional & Other Water Bodies/Tanks Restoration of large water bodies, inventory of all traditional water bodies/ Krishi Vigyan Kendra Mela tanks, restoration of traditional water bodies/ tanks and periodical renovation of small water bodies at Individualhouseholds level. 22,157 Krishi Vigyan Kendra melas have been organized in 214 15,917 districts Traditional water Krishi Vigyan Kendra Melas to promote efficient water use for irrigation bodies/tanks restored (Per Drop More Crop) and adopting cultivation of crops requiring lesser water.

Reuse, Borewell Recharge Structures Farmers Mobilized Construction of bore well recharge Structures, construction of individual and Community soak pits, construction of Greywater treatment ponds. 21,60,442 farmers have been mobilized with the help of KVK Melas 48,993 44 308 Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) of Faridkot organized a massive Kisan Mela (1000 farmers) Soak pits Stabilization Other under the guidance of the Directorate of Extension Education, Punjab Agriculture pond Structures University (PAU), Ludhiana. The KVK Mela was intended to promote efficient water usage for irrigation (Per Drop More Crop) and a better choice of crops for water conservation. c) %Age Increase in Measurement Parameters of Table 5: States with top 5 block-wise average water-holding capacity addition Total Water Holding Groundwater Level State No. of Blocks in JSA Capacity (m3) Under the interventions, the following four To assess the Groundwater and Soil Moisture Maharashtra 3,265,850 20 parameters have been identified for before and Content levels across states, the JSA after monitoring: observations were compared to pre-monsoon Tamil Nadu 57,233,110 541 observations for both these parameters. The 1. Increase in the groundwater level in feet/ median value of various groundwater levels meter recorded in each district was compared to pre- Punjab 8,824,832 111 2. Increase in the surface water storage monsoon data obtained from Central Ground capacity in cubic meters Water Board (CGWB) for initial performance Madhya Pradesh 229,832 29 measurement. The median was chosen for 3. Increase in the soil moisture in farmlands in the sake of conservativeness, as is would not Haryana 541,380 81 % (i.e. % of quantum of water in a cubic meter be feasible to use averages for groundwater of soil) and measurements. An alternate method may also 4. Increase in the area covered with plantation have been to use the best values in a district, Table 6: States with the lowest 5 block-wise average water-holding capacity addition and the number of saplings planted under which would have thrown up much more afforestation activities in a hectare positive results. The soil moisture measurements Total Water Holding State No. of Blocks in JSA in each district were compared with pre- Capacity (m3) Towards this goal, each of the CNO, BNO, TO monsoon satellite based readings . These and DM/CEO identified one activity (one site) measurements provide the basis for ongoing Odisha 18 9 under each of the five interventions. These monitoring of the impact of JSA activities in the sites were monitored at the intervals and the coming years. Jharkhand 128 5 consolidated data was then sent to the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, for In case of Afforestation and Enhancement of Kerala 89 3 further analysis. Presented are the findings from Surface Water, a ranking based on averaging the office of the PSA. the aggregate plantations or total water-holding Chhattisgarh 681 2 capacity created in a state against the number This section outlines the results of an exercise of blocks that participated in the JSA has been carried out under the JSA to monitor the Delhi 10,706 24 used. This has been done to give due weightage outcomes of interventions across program to the number of blocks as a representative of districts. The exercise measured outcomes the total area/ opportunity that a state carried across all five JSA interventions through Table 7 reports the aggregate and block average surface water capacity created across points observed in the out these activities in. The ranking uses the area North East and Himalayan states and Table 8 in the Union Territories monitoring groundwater and soil moisture data of plantation and capacity of surface water from 6,247 specific points chosen by JSA teams Table 7: Surface water activity reported in the NE and Himalayan States structures as a key parameter of performance. across the country. The resultant measurements Total Water Holding have helped identify the relative performance UTs No. of Blocks in JSA The observations are summarized in the sections Capacity (m3) of states in line with the key goals of the below. JSA: Afforestation, Enhancing Groundwater, Daman and Diu 76,042 1 Enhancing Surface Water Storage capacity and Creation of Surface Water-Holding Capacity Improving Soil Moisture content. A total of 3,920 surface water-holding structures Andaman & Nicobar Islands 12,750 3 were recorded. After removing outliers, which have been marked for revalidation, a total of Lakshadweep 25 9 687,785 m3 of new water-holding capacity creation is estimated across these points. Based Chandigarh on this reported data, a ranking of the relative performance of states has been carried out Dadra and Nagar Haveli which is summarized in Table 5-6. Puducherry

*Source: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/home Table 8: Surface water activity reported in the NE and Himalayan States Since various parameters such as rainfall levels and the relative distribution of groundwater recharge structures in relation to the aquifer may also impact recharge rates, the ongoing long term monitoring Total Water Holding is essential to establish the actual performance and impact of these structures. NE & Hilly States No. of Blocks in JSA Capacity (m3) Soil Moisture Enhancement Assam 27,425 5 JSA teams recorded 2,002 soil moisture measurements. Table 10 shows the percentage of districts in Himachal Pradesh 7,748 2 states that show a positive change in their soil moisture status when compared with pre-monsoon remote sensing-based measurements.

Tripura 5,763 3 Table 10: Performance of states at enhancing soil moisture

Sikkim 8,415 11 Soil Moisture Levels States/ UTs Meghalaya 2,994 8 All districts showed an increase Meghalaya Nagaland 2,884 8 >50% of districts showed an increase Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh 957 4 Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, 20-50% of districts showed an increase Manipur 1,216 6 Haryana, Telangana, Bihar

Uttarakhand 91 3 <20% of districts showed an increase Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka

Mizoram 75 3 Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Da- man & Diu, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, No districts showed an increase Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura, Uttara- Groundwater Enhancement khand, West Bengal

JSA teams recorded 4,322 groundwater measurements. Table 9 lists the performance of states based on the percentage of districts that show a positive change in their groundwater status when CGWB Afforestation pre-monsoon data is compared with JSA post-intervention data. A total of 1,193 plantations were recorded which is estimated to cover a total area of 5,381 Hectares. Table 9: Performance of states at enhancing groundwater A ranking of the relative performance of states based on the reported data has been attempted and is summarized in Tables 1-2.

Groundwater Levels States/ UTs Table 1: States with top 5 block-wise average plantations

Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Goa, All districts showed an increase State Total Hectares planted No. of Blocks in JSA Meghalaya, Tripura Jharkhand 94.55 5 >50% of districts showed an increase Kerala Maharashtra 229.44 20 Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Him- 20-50% of districts showed an increase achal Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka 454.20 53 Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, <20% of districts showed an increase Telangana, Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh 242.68 29

Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh 11.43 2 No districts showed an increase Haryana, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, West Bengal Table 2: States with the lowest 5 block-wise average plantations Table 4: Afforestation activity reported in the Union Territories

Total Hectares State Total Hectares planted No. of Blocks in JSA UTs No. of Blocks in JSA Score planted

West Bengal 0.50 1 Dadra and Nagar 486.05 1 486.05 Haveli Tamil Nadu 377.24 541 Chandigarh 59.27 1 59.27 Bihar 22.62 30 Daman and Diu 44.46 1 44.46 Odisha 7.97 9 Andaman & Nicobar 9.04 3 3.01 Kerala 3.02 3 Islands

Table 3 reports the aggregate and block average plantations across points observed in the North East RADAR image based assesment of the impact of JSA intervention and Himalayan states and Table 4 in the Union Territories.

Table 3: Afforestation activity reported in the NE and Himalayan States A B

NE & Himalayan Total Hectares No. of Blocks in JSA Score States planted

Himachal Pradesh 61.53 4 15.38

Assam 68.96 5 13.79

Tripura 37.50 6 6.25

Sikkim 33.45 8 4.18 Traditional Water body restored in Edulapuram Gram Panchayat of Khammam Rural Block, Meghalaya 11.57 3 3.86 Khammam District, Telangana state.

a.) Status of water body before JSA Activity. Uttarakhand 10.49 8 1.31 b.) Status of water body after JSA Activity. The red dot is the geotag point. Arunachal Pradesh 8.69 11 0.79

Manipur 1.80 3 0.60

Mizoram 1.04 2 0.52

Nagaland 0.23 3 0.08 b) Qualitative Achievements

I. Stories from the Field –

District: Etah State: Uttar Pradesh District: Jalandhar Initiative: Renovation of traditional water bodies State: Punjab Achievements - IA tributary of the Ganga, Ishan River that flows near the town of Etah Achievements - The people of Haripur in Uttar Pradesh was fully clogged with polythene and plastics. Cleaning the river was a have converted a filthy water body into herculean task completed together by all government departments, political leaders, and a beautiful park with a pond. To achieve community through a massive mobilization drive. this, the village community constituted a committee called The “Haripur Vikaas Committee” for the development of the village including the pond site. Their interventions included laying underground pipelines for drainage of household wastewater and rainwater separately, and then lining all the streets of the village with interlocking tiles. All the pipelines led to the village pond, effectively collecting every drop of water that came either from household activities or rain.

District: Jalore State: Rajasthan

Achievements - A Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA) team comprising central government officers along District: Tiruvannamalai with district officials and the local community cleaned and deepened State: Tamil Nadu the main village pond in Samtipura village in Samiti Panchayat of Jalore district in Rajasthan on 12th July 2019. The activity will help Achievements - A detailed water budget increase the storage capacity of rainwater and at the same time has been prepared for all the villages in recharge groundwater and water for drinking purposes. the district. The water budget takes into consideration both the supply as well as demand for water. Supply of water is being calculated by considering both groundwater and surface water. Groundwater data is being taken as per the measurement of Groundwater board and the surface water data is being derived from the rainfall data in each village. District: Khammam State: Telangana The district has also implemented Pot Irrigation. Pot irrigation is one of the most effective techniques for water-saving in irrigation. In this Achievements - During the month of July 2019, technique, a clay pot is buried in the soil next to the plant root. A small as many as 26 RWH pits have been constructed hole is made at the bottom of the pot and a coir thread is attached within the premises of granite factories. It was a good example of the convergence to this opening. Water will drip through this coir thread and will be of industry and district administration. In August, an additional 55 RWH pits will be utilized at the rate at which water is being drawn by the plant. A total constructed as per the guidelines of JSA. Further as suggested by JSA, water-logged of 26,835 saplings are being planted using pot irrigation in the district. quarries are supplying their seepage water to adjacent agricultural lands and for the development of plantations around the quarries. 2. Innovations 3. Jal Andolan - Jan Andolan

True to the spirit of JSA, village leaders, community members, school students have taken up the task of Water Conservation. The Abhiyan is especially being led by young children, highly enthusiastic and actively participating in water conservation activities. District: Sikar Just ahead of the monsoons, two historical step-wells located in Bhadrajun and Thanwala Gram State: Rajasthan District: South Goa Panchayats of Jalore district in Rajasthan were cleaned by removing contaminated water, debris, dirt A farmer based in Danta Ramgarh State: Goa and filth by the village community and block functionaries of Ahore block. block of Sikar District in Rajasthan has To prepare the wells to receive rainwater, the district administration of Jalore, under the leadership of discovered a method of growing a tree In Sanguem block of South Goa District Collector, Mahendra Soni organized the village community numbering about 400 people, to with just one litre of water. In other abandoned mining pits are being used clean up the Bhadrajun well and its surroundings. Stagnated water had to be pumped out using a words, a plant would require one litre of for harvesting of rainwater and the mechanized pump set for which villagers contributed Rs 20000/-. This resulted in gushing in of clean water for its entire lifespan. The method stored water is being used for irrigation water from the underground into this step well. As many as 400 people were involved in the laborious is a great boon not only for the water- and drinking water supply to nearby task of cleaning the wells. scarce district of Rajasthan but also villages by pumping into bhandaras for other arid regions of the country. constructed across Khanderar River. The basis for the technology is to break Mining dump has been stocked as the capillary of the soil. To achieve hillocks and they were treated with this, ploughing is done two times – first bio-fertilizers and about 2 lakh saplings would be five to seven days after the were planted on these hillocks. first rainfall and the second after the last IDEA rainfall in the area.

Township: Aligarh District: Tiruvannamalai State: Uttar Pradesh State: Tamil Nadu

Aligarh Development Authority (ADA) In Tiruvannamalai, in order to avoid in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh has wastage of water in overflowing tanks, set up a modular rooftop rainwater automatic cutoff switches have been harvesting (RWH) unit atop the office fixed in all OHT water pumps. This of the Divisional Commissioner, Aligarh will ensure that the pump turns off Division. Unlike conventional RWH immediately after the tank is filled. The systems, the recharge chamber in system has a simple and inexpensive modular RWH need not be PCC/ RCC, design whereby the motor is switched on thereby making it significantly more manually but switched off automatically. economical. Further, modular RWH It has twin benefits of saving water and with polypropylene blocks wrapped improving the motor life on all sides with geotextile is almost maintenance-free and has a higher useful life. WAY FORWARD ANNEXURE I National Mapping Of Water Stressed Blocks, Districts, And States It is necessary to build on the momentum created by the Jal Shakti Abhiyan and to consolidate gains already made during the period. Towards this, the following suggestions are provided for district Categorization Of Blocks/ Mandals/ authorities to implement in coordination with respective departments and agencies: Talukas In India (2017) States / Union S.No. Blocks Districts Territories (i) The digital inventory of all the water bodies/resources should be completed and shared with all 1 Andhra Pradesh 68 9 17 Manipur 3 1

stake-holding Departments and their headquarters. 2 Arunachal Pradesh 11 1 18 Meghalaya 3 1

3 Assam 5 1 19 Mizoram 2 1 (ii) The list of water bodies that were renovated, rejuvenated or ones in which encroachments were removed should be documented and recorded in the revenue records so that they do not fall into 4 Bihar 30 12 20 Nagaland 3 1 disuse/abuse/encroached again. 5 Chhattisgarh 2 2 21 Odisha 9 1 6 Delhi 24 10 22 Punjab 111 20 (iii) Such water bodies in (ii) above should be linked to people’s livelihood so that the people’s 7 Goa 7 1 23 Rajasthan 218 29 economic interest can protect them. For example, fisheries can be encouraged, and water bodies 8 Gujarat 30 5 24 Sikkim 8 1 leased (Matsya Mitra Yojana of Jharkhand) so that they can be maintained by communities benefitted out of them. 9 Haryana 81 19 25 Tamil Nadu 541 27 10 Himachal Pradesh 4 4 26 Telangana 137 24

(iv) Encourage social water bodies policing (Volunteer Jal rakshaks) for the sustenance of restored 11 Jammu & Kashmir 15 1 27 Tripura 6 1 water bodies using the services of college and senior secondary students, volunteers, NGOs etc. 12 Jharkhand 5 2 28 Uttar Pradesh 139 35

(v) Survival of plantations must be monitored periodically so that the original number is maintained. 13 Karnataka 53 18 29 Uttarakhand 8 1 A protection mechanism needs to be adopted from grazing, while replacement of decayed plants 14 Kerala 3 2 30 West Bengal 1 1 should be covered by the department/ administration 15 Madhya Pradesh 29 11 31 Andaman & Nicobar 3 1

16 Maharashtra 20 8 32 Chandigarh 1 1 (vi) Incorporate voluntary shramdan to build awareness as well as completing various works. 33 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 1 1 Starting with children the whole community can be involved. 34 Daman & Diu 1 1

(vii) Capacity building of farmers on water conservation should go on simultaneously. The focus 35 Lakshadweep 9 1

should involve usage of micro-irrigation techniques for water-guzzling plants. 36 Puducherry 1 1

(viii) Considering the sustainability aspect, a plan must be made under the current JSA for including Total 1592 256 maintenance of structures as part of the plan costing.

(ix) All Government buildings may mandatorily include RWH structures. Many government schools do have structures for rainwater harvesting but are mostly non-functional. These non-functional can be used with minor repairs.

(x) Create a dedicated JSA cell at district level post Abhiyan period to complete the follow-up activities under Jal Shakti Abhiyan.

INDEX

Total districts with water-stressed blocks : 256 Districts with water-stressed blocks (non-Aspirational districts) : 233 Districts with water-stressed blocks (Aspirational districts) : 23 ANNEXURE II Intervention areas for select water-related schemes

Intervention S.No. Activity Existing scheme(s) Ministry/Dept Areas

No. of water conservation structures constructed: Rooftop rainwater harvesting Water structures Mahatma Gandhi conservation Rural Employment Ministry of Rural 1 - public and rainwater Guarantee Act Development - private harvesting (MGNREGA) Check dams Trenches Farm Ponds

Ministry of Rural Mahatma Gandhi Development, and Renovation No. of traditional water bodies/ Rural Employment Department of of traditional tanks restored (includes Guarantee Act Water Resources, 2 and other individual household units) (MGNREGA) and River Development water bodies/ No. of other water bodies Repair, Renovation and River tanks restored and Restoration of Rejuvenation, Water Bodies Ministry of Jal Shakti

No. of borewell recharge structures constructed Reuse, No. of soak pits Mahatma Gandhi borewell Rural Employment Ministry of Rural 3 - Individual recharge Guarantee Act Development structures - community (MGNREGA) 3.3 No. of greywater2 treatment ponds

Area covered under watershed development (in ha) Integrated Department of No. of watershed structures Watershed Watershed Land Resources, 4 constructed: Management development Ministry of Rural Programme Staggered trenches Development Gully plugs (IWMP Percolation tanks

Ministry of National No. of seedlings planted Environment, Afforestation and Intensive Area covered under plantation Forests and Climate 5. Eco-Development afforestation on public and forests lands Change; and Board (NAEB) and Ministry of Rural MGNREGA Development

Total number of activities monitored: 15

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