Write the steps taken by government of madhya pradesh and maharashtra in watershed management?
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Government of India has undertaken the following protection and regulatory measures:
(i) A “Water Quality Assessment Authority (WQAA)” has been established under Environmental Protection Act.
(ii) Government of India has constituted National Ganga River Basin Authority for addressing the problems of pollution of river Ganga.
(iii) A draft Model Bill to regulate and control the development and management of ground water has been circulated to the States and Union Territories. 11 States / Union Territories namely, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal have enacted the legislation in this regard.
(iv) The Central Ground Water Authority has been constituted under Environmental Protection Act 2005. CGWA has directed the Chief Secretaries of the concerned States to take all measures to adopt artificial recharge to ground water/promote rain water harvesting in all the over-exploited areas falling under their jurisdiction and ensure inclusion of roof top rain water harvesting in the building bye-laws.
(v) A model Bill for Participatory Irrigation Management has also been drafted and circulated to all States. 15 States, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh have either enacted exclusive legislation or amended their Irrigation Acts for involvement of farmers in irrigation management.
(vi) Government of India is implementing the National Lake Conservation Plan for conservation and management of polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi-urban areas located in various States. National River Conservation Programme is also being implemented by Government of India for conservation and management of polluted rivers.
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Question
Write the steps taken by government of madhya pradesh and maharashtra in watershed management?
The following are some of the ways that have been used by the two bodies for the watershed management.
Water Quality assessment Authority
- This the body which is concerned with the checking and managing the quality of water which includes the purity and cleanliness of water bodies and contents.
- There is equally a draft moderate Bill which is meant to regulate the underground water and its protection from exhaustion and overuse from various .
- The Central Water Body has been constituted to ensure the equal and measured distribution of water and hence ensures that everyone is in a position to access the water body and water contents.