pratiyogita kiran english magazine

 pratiyogita kiran english magazine

pratiyogita kiran english magazine publish this article page  no  32 there was a paradigm shift in policy. in the droughts of the late 1990s state governments launched massive programmes to capture rainwater by digging tanks and building check-dams on streams. by the mid-2000 these efforts coalesced into the mahatma gandhi rural employment guarantee act (mgrega) – investing labour into building rural water assets. by this time it was also understood that groundwater – considered a "minor" resource was the "major" supplier of water for both drinking water and irrigation in the country. it was also understood that over 50 per cent of agriculture was still rainfed and so water conservation and decentralised rainwater harvesting – ensuring that every well and every waterbody was recharged — was critical for productivity and wellbeing pratiyogita kiran english.