Imphal: A central Ministerial team visited the state to assess, monitor, and progress made in various water conservation measures in the face of a chronic water shortage in the Imphal city of Manipur.
A meeting on “Jal Shakti Abhiyan-Catch the Rain 2024” (JSA-CTR-2024), organized by the Deputy Commissioner, Imphal West, was held at Imphal on Thursday.
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Sureshwar Singh Bonal, Director, Ministry of Heavy Industries, and Dr M Panneer Scientist -D and Technical Officer, JSA: CTR-2024 were the Ministerial team visiting the state to access, and monitor progress made in various water conservation measures. They were felicitated by the Deputy Commissioner, Imphal West Th. Kirankumar Singh.
The JSA: CTR-2024 campaign is being implemented from 09.03. 2024 to 30.11. 2024 in all the districts (rural as well as urban areas) of the country with the theme ‘Nari Shakti se Jal Shakti’ to underscore the pivotal role of women in water conservation.
Addressing the meeting, Suseshwar Singh Bonal, stated that urbanization has escalated the challenges of water scarcity faced in many major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, etc.
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As Imphal is on its way to becoming a city soon, more aspects need to be taken up in terms of water body conservation plans for future generations. So, under the JSA-CTR-2024 scheme initiated by the Ministry, he appealed to the general public for cooperation to make it successful.
Despite serving Imphal and its environs, requiring 124 MLD (million litres per day) of water daily, through 17 water treatment plants, disruptions in conflict-affected zones like Kangchup, Kangchup extension, and Potshangbam-II, coupled with the sabotage at the Singda treatment plant’s pipeline, have severely curtailed.
Deputy Commissioner, Imphal West, Th. Kirankumar Singh mentioned that departments such as the Social Welfare and Education Department should play a major role in promoting and implementing this scheme. He further directed all the concerned departmental officials to cooperate and seek advice from the visiting experts.
Officials present in today’s meeting were the CEO of Imphal West Zilla Parishad; DFO, Central Division; Chief Town Planner, Manipur; EE, Minor Irrigation; EE Water Resources; EE, PHED; all SDOs of Imphal West; all BDOs of Imphal West; ZEO (Zone-1 and Wangoi); DPO & CDPOs of Imphal West; APO, DRDA Imphal West etc.