Year: 2024 | Month: January | Volume: 11 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 554-560
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240161
Priority of Water Conservation Projects: Study on MGNREGA from Kerala
Dr. Rajeev S R
Associate Professor, T K Madhava Memorial College Nangiarkulangara
ABSTRACT
Water is an important resource and is a free gift of nature. Potable water for drinking and water for agriculture both maintains the life on the earth. It is available in plenty but face acute shortage and scarcity. The thinkers repeatedly remembering that the next world war is for water. The scarcity of water to be solved. The solution requires low-cost technology and increased manpower. There are many successful stories of water source restoration in the public funded, people participated employment guarantee programme. The MGNREGA giving highest priority to maintenance of natural resource restoration and conservation of water projects. The success stories of water conservation projects initiated by Mahatma Gandhi NREGA in Kerala is explained in this article.
Keywords: Water conservation, Projects, success stories. Mahatma Gandhi NREGA, water scarcity, restoration, rejuvenation.
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