Minister of Rural Development Inaugurates Workshop on Construction and Desilting of Checkdams and Water Harvesting Structures Make Water Conservation a People's Mass Movement: Chaudhary Birender Singh

The Union Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water & Sanitation Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh said that the States need to take advance steps to prepare for the monsoon of 2015 so that maximum water can be stored in those few months for the benefit of all. He was addressing the delegates from all states after inaugurating the two-day workshop on 'Construction and Desilting of Checkdams/ Water Harvesting Structures' in New Delhi today. He said that the idea of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi that a timely and advance preparation can enable a significant increase in capacity to store water in the multitude of checkdams, ponds, tanks etc in the country is a very practical and doable. This will result in two important things -improving the storage and thus rejuvenating these structures as well as reducing floods at the local level. This workshop is being organized with the view to kick start the process of planning to increase water storage for monsoon 2015.