About Mission Amrit Sarovar:
- Under the Mission Amrit Sarovar, a target has been set to build 50,000 Amrit Sarovars by 15th August, 2023.
- Mission Amrit Sarovar was launched on 24th April, 2022 with the resolve to build 75 Amrit Sarovars during the 75th year of independence as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, on the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in every district to overcome the water crisis in rural areas of the country.
- This Mission has been launched with a whole of Government Approach which involves 6 Ministries/Department namely:
- Dept of Rural Development,
- Department of land resources,
- Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation,
- Department of Water resources,
- Ministry of Panchayati Raj,
- Ministry of Forest, Environment and Climate changes.
- Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) has been engaged as Technical partner for the Mission.
Source: All India Radio
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