Ministry of Jal Shakti launched “Catch the Rain” campaign with the tag line “Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls” to nudge the states and all stakeholders to create Rain Water Harvesting Structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata, with people’s active participation. Besides creating RWHS, repairs/ improvements in RWHS is also one activities under Catch the Rain Campaign.

Thereafter, Ministry of Jal Shakti had taken up “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain” (JSA:CTR) in 2021 with the theme “Catch the Rain - Where it Falls When it Falls” in all the districts (rural as well as urban areas) of the country from 22nd March, 2021 to 30 November, 2021. Maintaining the continuity, this year also, the Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain (JSA:CTR) - 2022 has been taken up in all districts (rural as well as urban areas) of the country with the theme “Catch the Rain - Where it Falls When it Falls” from 29 March, 2022 to 30 November, 2022 - the pre-monsoon and monsoon period in the country. The focused interventions of the campaign are - (i) rainwater harvesting & water conservation (ii) enumerating, geo-tagging & making inventory of all water bodies; preparation of scientific plans for water conservation (iii) Setting up Jal Shakti Kendras in all districts (iv) intensive afforestation and (v) awareness generation.

Allocation and utilization of funds under Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch The Rain (JSA:CTR) Campaign is through inter-sectoral convergence of various development programmes/ schemes of Central and State Governments. No separate funds have been allocated/ earmarked for JSA:CTR campaign. However, under the campaign, onetime financial assistance of upto Rs. 2.00 lakh is released to each district in two installments of Rs. 1.00 lakh each for GIS mapping of water bodies and preparation of scientific plans. So far, National Water Mission has released Rs. 4.94 crore to various states/ districts of the country, out of which the first installment of Rs 1.00 lakh each has been released to 45 districts of Madhya Pradesh.

As per the information available on the JSA:CTR Portal (jsactr.mowr.gov.in), during the period from 29.3.2022 to 03.08.2022, Rs 645.04 crore have been utilized from the funds under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme alone in the state of Madhya Pradesh under the campaign.

As per the information available on JSA:CTR Portal (jsactr.mowr.gov.in) the current status of the intervention-wise works undertaken under JSA:CTR during the period 29.3.2022 to 03.08.2022 is annexed.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Shri Bishweswar Tudu in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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REGARDING “CATCH THE RAIN CAMPAIGN”

Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch The Rain-2022 Intervention-Wise Progress From 29.03.2022 to 03.08.2022
Sr. No.	Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Components	Water Conservation and Rain Water Harvesting Structures		Renovation of Traditional Water Bodies		Reuse and Recharge Structures	Watershed Development	Total of Water Related Works		Intensive   Afforestation	Training Programmes/   Kisan Melas
		Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban			Rural	Urban
1.A	Total Nos. of Work Completed	231,986	70,934	40,803	759	223,138	290,335	786,262	71,693	126,467,533	58,428
		302,920		41,562				857,955
1.B	Total Nos. of Works Ongoing	235,276		96,523		103,619	312,711	748,129		211,853	-
2	Total of Completed and Ongoing Works	538,196		138,085		326,757	603,046	1,606,084		126,679,386
3	Expenditures in Rs Crores*	2,746		1,418		84	2,507	6,755		439	-
4	Total Expenditures Including Water related works and Afforestation							Rs 7,194 Crore (Expenditure is given only for the works carried out by DoRD under MGNREGS)
5	Jal Shakti Kendra established							561
6	Photos Uploaded on portal							176,619
7	Videos uploaded on portal							2,342
8	Water Conservation Plan							202

(Source: jsactr.mowr.gov.in )

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