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Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PM

Aiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Applications invited for SuSanA - ISC Coordinator
The India Sanitation Coalition (ISC) together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für international Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), are looking for a SuSanA India chapter coordinator.
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 03:20 PM

Background:
Press release: National Sustainable Water & Sanitation Summit 2016
The focus of the summit was to create awareness about the existing water & sanitation issues in India, Governments’ future plan for Swachh Bharat Mission, national reforms on water & sanitation.
Swati Bansal
Posted on 20 Jan, 2016 12:52 AM

Day 1:
National Summit on Sustainable Water & Sanitation
Development Management Programme on ''Fresh Water Resources Conservation with a special focus on Supply and Demand management in Southern Peninsular India”
The Water Knowledge Centre at Tata-Dhan Academy is organising the Development Management Programme (DMP) on fresh water resources conservation in Hyderabad
Posted on 19 Jan, 2016 08:05 PM

Objectives of the DMP: 

  1. The DMP builds the knowledge of the participants on surface water bodies conservation and managemetn by various stakeholders. 
  2. It widens the participants perspectives on blue and green water concept and management of the same. 

For registration, contact: 
Centre speeds up its Clean Ganga Mission
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 19 Jan, 2016 11:36 AM

Centre to involve public, private firms for urban sewage treatment and Ganga clean up 
Ganga river at Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
3rd India Water Forum 2016
The theme of the forum is 'Water for Sustainability: Towards Development and Prosperity'. The forum aims to identify challenges related to ensuring the adequate quantities of acceptable quality water.
Posted on 12 Jan, 2016 03:07 PM

About the conference:
IMD to stop using the term 'drought'
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 12 Jan, 2016 09:55 AM

IMD to replace the term 'drought' with 'deficient year'
Affected by drought (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
NITI Ayog allocates Rs 1000 crore for groundwater contaminated zones
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 11 Jan, 2016 09:48 PM

Government to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones
A hand pump in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Rice-fish culture transforms the lives of cyclone-hit farmers in Odisha
Rice-fish systems allow for the production of fish and other aquatic animals as well as rice from the same rice field area, and generally without causing reductions in rice yields.
Jagannath Chatterjee
Posted on 06 Jan, 2016 11:24 PM

Coastal regions of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts of Odisha have been hit by cyclonic storms for more than two decades.
Integrated Rice Fish Culture Unit Rajnagar (Source: RCDC, Odisha)
Centre provides relief fund to drought and flood-hit states
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Jan, 2016 11:19 AM

Relief assistance to drought-hit Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and flood-hit West Bengal
Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)
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