HARVESTING OF RAIN WATER

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LOK SABHA

The National Water Policy lays down that water resources available in the country should be brought within the category of utilisable resources to the maximum possible extent. Accordingly, since Independence, with a judicious combination of major, medium and minor storage dams and diversion structures including barrages, storage of 177 billion cubic metres has been created in the country which is utilised in the lean season and an irrigation potential of 99.76 million hectares is anticipated to have been created by the end of the Ninth Five Year Plan.

This information was given by the Union Minister of State for Water Resources, Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty in a written reply in the Lok Sabha yesterday.