New Delhi , 20 : Maharashtra governments ambitious scheme ‘Farm pond
on Demand’ has been selected as one of the countries 10 most innovative scheme
.
The 11th Civil Service Day
function held at Vigyan Bhavan today was
formally inaugurated by Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh. On this
occasion a booklet of such innovative scheme has been prepared which would be
formally released by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi here tomorrow.
This
booklet contain all the detail about ‘Farm pond on Demand’ scheme.
This scheme is been implemented in Maharashtra in a very transparent manner.
The Farmer from state can apply for this
scheme through the government web portal ‘Apale Sarkar’. The applicant can see
status of the application online
. Hence, the scheme is getting good response from farmers across the state. So
far 30,000 Farm pond have been made. On
which the state government has spent an amount of Rupees 120 crore.
Most of the farm pond have come up
in the drought prone areas of Marathwada and Vidrabha.
In the Marathwada region 8,370 Farm pond have
been made while in Vidarbhas Amravati Division 8,104 such Farm Pond have been
made. Similarly in Nagpur the number of
such Farm Ponds is 1,548 while in Nashik Division this number stands at 3,019 .
Such farm ponds stand be of great use
for farmers in the absence of sufficient rain fall during the Kharip session.
At the same time during the Rabi session this farm pond can work as water
reservoir. They also help in enhancing the under ground water level.
It may be recall that Prime
Minister Shri Narendra Modi has called for doubling the farmers out put by 2022
and at the same time building up of 5
lakh farm ponds. It is in pursuit of this goal that Maharashtra Chief Minister
Shri Devendra Fadnavis has taken timely initiative in this regards he takes regular meeting with
District Magistrate to review the
progress of Farm Pond Scheme .
Meanwhile , on this occasion an Exhibition has
been put up at Vigyan Bhavan where this ambitious scheme of Maharashtra is also
among the 10 Top Innovative scheme which are display there . Ministers and
Officers who visited this Exhibition during the day took keen interest in
‘Farm Pond on Demand’ Scheme of
Maharashtra and were all praise for it.
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