{"id":7707,"date":"2025-09-14T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:55:51","slug":"mission-amrit-sarovar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mission-amrit-sarovar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Amrit Sarovar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Amrit Sarovar Mission Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government recently informed that over 68 thousand ponds have been created under the Amrit Sarovar Mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Amrit Sarovar Mission<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched in <\/span><b>April 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>construct or rejuvenate 75 Amrit Sarovars (ponds) in each district <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the country as a <\/span><b>part of the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It helps to <\/span><b>overcome the water crisis in rural areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Salient Features of <\/b><b style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 35px; font-style: inherit;\">Amrit Sarovar Mission<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Every Amrit Sarovar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will have a <\/span><b>pondage area of at least 1 acre <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a <\/span><b>water holding capacity of about 10,000 cubic metre.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every Amrit Sarovar will be<\/span><b> surrounded by trees <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">like Neem, Peepal, and Banyan, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every Amrit Sarovar will be a <\/span><b>source of generation of livelihoods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><b>using the water for different purposes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like irrigation, fisheries, duckery, cultivation of water chestnut, water tourism, and other activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Amrit Sarovar will also <\/span><b>act as a social gathering point<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in that locality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The site of Amrit Sarovars<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be<\/span><b> approved by special Gram Sabha,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which will <\/span><b>also name Panchayat Partinidhi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who will <\/span><b>supervise the development of Amrit Sarovar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on its behalf<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It focuses on<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">water conservation, people\u2019s participation, and proper <\/span><b>utilization of soil excavated<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the water bodies <\/span><b>to boost infrastructure projects.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is based on the \u201c<\/span><b>Whole of Government\u201d approach <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the <\/span><b>participation from <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Ministry of Cultur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>e<\/strong>, <\/span><b>Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and technical organizations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is <\/span><b>no separate financial allocation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Mission Amrit Sarovar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mission Amrit Sarovar<\/span><b> works <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are being <\/span><b>taken up by the states and districts with convergence from various ongoing schemes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as <\/span><b>Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, 15th Finance Commission Grants, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichayi Yojna <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sub-schemes such as the Watershed Development Component, Har Khet ko Pani, besides States\u2019 own schemes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bhaskar Acharya National Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been engaged as a<\/span><b> technical partner <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the Mission.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Amrit Sarovar Portal and Mobile App developed by BISAG-N <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is used for tracking the progress\/ performance of Mission Amrit Sarovar in districts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/govt-68000-ponds-created-under-amrit-sarovar-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in Apr 2022, Amrit Sarovar Mission aims to build or rejuvenate 75 ponds in each district as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","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=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}