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Government Programmes
Water and sanitation sector needs a budget push
Posted on 30 Jan, 2016 12:56 PMWhile the WatSan sector has been prioritised in the country’s policy agenda through the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, last year’s budgetary outlay was way below desired levels.
![Handwashing at a Karnataka school](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing_in_a_karnataka_school_0.jpg?itok=DFnpKoyP)
Pumping up hopes the solar way
Posted on 28 Jan, 2016 03:29 PMHaryana's agriculture sector uses seven lakh tubewells, most of which are connected to the grid as the state has a policy of providing highly subsidised electricity to farmers costing Rs. 6200 crore a year. As a result, groundwater exploitation is rampant.
![Better incentives needs to be provided to farmers to use solar pumps for tubewells in Haryana](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/image_14.jpg?itok=8Ww2QUZ-)
Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:09 PMAiming for an outcome-oriented programme, Government sets ambitious targets for MGNREGS
![Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5498477595_b432f838e5_z_0_1.jpg?itok=7mRSfDtn)
UP Coca Cola plant in trouble again
Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:03 PMCPCB finds Coca Cola plant in Hapur pumping toxic water into a pond
![Coca Cola bottling plant (Source: S. Subramanium via Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/coca_cola_bottling_1629227g_0_1.jpg?itok=mMsWDFAN)
Centre speeds up its Clean Ganga Mission
Posted on 19 Jan, 2016 11:36 AMCentre to involve public, private firms for urban sewage treatment and Ganga clean up
![Ganga river at Gadmukteshwar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/6172024170_3151074271_z_1_2.jpg?itok=JOD5IXnY)
IMD to stop using the term 'drought'
Posted on 12 Jan, 2016 09:55 AMIMD to replace the term 'drought' with 'deficient year'
![Affected by drought (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5498477595_b432f838e5_z_0_0.jpg?itok=XlBfng7_)
NITI Ayog allocates Rs 1000 crore for groundwater contaminated zones
Posted on 11 Jan, 2016 09:48 PMGovernment to install community water purification plants in water toxic zones
![A hand pump in Madhya Pradesh (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/4483915884_6da8e3b48c_b.jpg?itok=XpaaYen0)
Ken-Betwa river gets some respite
Posted on 08 Jan, 2016 01:03 PMIn December 2015, more than forty years after it was conceived, the Government was set to launch India’s ambitious 30-link river interlinking project linking 37 rivers.
![View of Betwa river (Source: Manual Menal, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/betwa_manual-menal-small.jpg?itok=HHMI3GpG)
Centre provides relief fund to drought and flood-hit states
Posted on 05 Jan, 2016 11:19 AMRelief assistance to drought-hit Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and flood-hit West Bengal
![Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/drought_affected_area_in_karnataka_india_2012_0_0.jpg?itok=HexPDKea)
Right information and collective strength of people triumph!
Posted on 04 Jan, 2016 08:25 PM"More than eight villagers in Padapadar have died due to water-borne diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, jaundice, etc.
![A hand-pump installed at Padapadar village](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hand-pump-s.jpg?itok=sMH90Kqr)