📋 Tender Overview
Keeping in view the presence of multiple agencies for handling water in the state governments and limited availability of technical knowledge on appropriate Rain Water Harvesting Structure RWHS at local level States Governments including the District Magistrates DMs have been requested to set-up Jal Shakti Kendras in every district as a part of Jal Shakti Abhiyan Catch the Rain JSACTR campaign. These Jal Shakti Kendras are set up to work as knowledge centres for disseminating information related to water conservation techniques and to provide technical guidance to people. As per data available on portal for JSACTR so far 264 Jal Shakti Kendras have been set up in various states.Ministry of Jal Shakti has also launched the first Census of water bodies in convergence with the Sixth round of Minor Irrigation Census Reference year 2017-18 with the objective of census of water bodies and to develop a national database of all water bodies in the country. Under India-WRIS project around 7.99 lakh water bodies of size more than 0.01 ha. was mapped using satellite imageries of 2009-10 and made available online on the India-WRIS portal. Using satellite imagery National Remote Sensing Centre has also been mapping nationwide water bodies at regular intervals of time depending on their size.Under the Jal Shakti Abhiyan Catch the Rain campaign implemented by the National Water Mission Ministry of Jal Shakti the District MagistratesCollectors have been asked to enumerate with the help of old revenue records and using remote sensing images from NRSA and GIS mapping technology all existing water-bodies water harvesting structures mark their boundaries geo-tag them integrate available data from NIC-MI census National Water Informatics Centre NWIC State Water Resources Information systems and using the data for preparing Scientific Water Conservation plans. NWM has prepared guidelines for preparation of GIS based water conservation plans and inventory of water bodies of districts and forwarded it to all the districts for its implementation.
