{"id":12178,"date":"2023-06-17T12:58:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T07:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12178"},"modified":"2025-03-30T07:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:19:31","slug":"4th-national-water-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/4th-national-water-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"4th National Water Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the 4th National Water Awards:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The first edition of the National Water Awards was introduced by the <strong>Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in 2018.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have provided a <strong>good opportunity for start-ups<\/strong> as well as leading organizations to engage and deliberate with senior policymakers on how to adopt the best water resources management practices in India.<\/li>\n<li>These awards have been instituted to <strong>recognize and encourage exemplary<\/strong> work and efforts made by <strong>States, Districts, individuals, organizations<\/strong>, etc across the country in attaining the vision of a \u2018Jal Samriddh Bharat\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>It covers <strong>11 categories<\/strong> Best State\u2019, \u2018Best District\u2019, \u2018Best Village Panchayat\u2019, \u2018Best Urban Local Body\u2019 etc.<\/li>\n<li>The award winners in different categories will be given <strong>a citation, trophy and cash prize<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The cash prizes for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rank winners are Rs.2 lakhs, Rs.1.5 lakhs, and Rs.1 lakh, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry<\/strong>: Ministry of Jal Shakti.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Jal Samriddh Bharat?<\/h3>\n<p>The concept of &#8220;Jal Samriddh Bharat&#8221; emphasizes the need for comprehensive water conservation, management, and rejuvenation measures. It aims to address issues such as water conservation, rainwater harvesting, watershed development, groundwater recharge, and efficient water use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Vice-President-Jagdeep-Dhankhar-to-confer-4th-National-Water-Awards-in-New-Delhi&amp;id=462678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar to confer 4th National Water Awards in New Delhi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Water Award was introduced by the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}