Lok Sabha Question No. 5315 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-25
Subject: Study on Drought Situation
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Ajay (Teni) Misra

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI,

## DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †5315

## ANSWERED ON 25 .0 7.2019

## STUDY ON DROUGHT SIT UATION

## †5315. SHRI AJAY MISRA TENI

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has taken note of the study conducted by IIT, Kharagpur recent apprehended that there is a possibility of drought like condition in maximum parts of the co 050 due to indiscriminate exploitation of ground water;

(b) if so, the details thereof; and

(c) the steps taken or scheme formulated by the Government to deal with this problem?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI & SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

## (SHRI RATTAN LAL KATARIA )

(a) & (b ) Researchers from IIT, Kharagpur in collaboration with others have published technical p on  'long  term  groundwater  recharge'  and  'satellite -based  estimates  of  usable  groundwater  storage'  in International  Journals  of  'Hydrology  and  Earth  System  Sciences',  2019  and  'Advances  in  Water Resources', 2019 respectively.

(c)  Central  Ground  Water  Authority  (CGWA)  has  been  constituted  under  Section  3(3) 'Environment  (Protection)  Act,  1986'  for  the  purpose  of  regulation  and  control  of  ground  water development and management in the Country. CGWA grants No Objection Certificates for ground wat abstraction, in 23 States/UTs, through guidelines which are modified from time to time. Rest /  UTs  are  regulating  ground  water  development  through  their  own  Acts,  notifications  o r  Government Orders. Further, CGWA has also appointed the District Magistrate / District Collector of e District and Regional Directors of CGWB in these States as Authorized Officers, with power compliance of NOC conditions.

Governme nt of India has launched the Jal Shakti Abhiyan which is a time bound campai a mission mode approach intended to improve water availability including ground water condit water stressed blocks of 256 districts in India. In this regard, tea m of officers from Central Government along - with technical officers from Ministry of Jal Shakti have been deputed to visit water st and  to  work  in  close  collaboration  with  district  level  officials  to  undertake  suitable  d suppl y side interventions .

As per information received from Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs , the Model Building Bye  Laws,  2016,  has  been  issued  for  guidance  of  the  States/UTs  which  has  a  chapter  on  'Rainwater Harvesting'.    The  provisions of  this  chapter  are  applicable  to  all  the  buildings.  32  States  / adopted the rainwater harvesting provisions. The implementation of the rainwater harvesting within the purview of the State Government/Urban Local Body / Urban Developme nt Authority.

Central  Government  supports  construction  of  water  harvesting  and  conservation primarily  through  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment  Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS), Pradhan  Mantri  Krishi  Sinchayee  Yojana -Watershed  Development  Compone nt  (PMKSY - WDC)  and PMKSY - Per  Drop  More  Crop.  Under  these  Schemes,  17,56,207  water  conservation  and  recha structures have been const ructed at an expenditure of Rs. 23,435.67 crore in the last three years.

In addition, for enhancing water use efficienc y, the Central Government is promoting micro -irrigation systems, Command Area Development works, Participatory Irrigation Management, rec reuse of water amongst others.

Water  being  a  State  subject,  initiatives  on  water  management  including  conserva artificial  recharge  to  ground  water  in  the  Country  is  primarily  States'  responsibility. The  important measures taken by the Central Government for conservation, manage ment of ground water and effective implementation of rain water harvesting in the country are at the following URL:

http://mowr.gov.in/sites/default/files/St eps\_to\_control\_water\_depletion\_Jun2019.pdf

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