The Haryana Government has constituted a committee comprising three Cabinet Ministers to finalise a Bill to regulate and ensure judicious use of groundwater in the State.
Announcing this, Agriculture Minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha disclosed that the Ground Water Cell of the State Agriculture Department had established 2,105 grid observation points at a distance of 20 square km to keep a watch on the declining water level in the State. These were being monitored twice in a year during the pre-monsoon and post-monsoon months.
Mr. Chatha said that under the Accelerated Recharge of Groundwater Scheme, 257 rainwater harvesting structures had been constructed so far to recharge groundwater through injection well technique.
Rainwater harvesting
These structures had been constructed in government buildings all over the State including Krishi Bhavan, Panchkula, Judicial Complex, Gohana, Public Health Complex and Civil Hospital, Fatehabad, Mini-Secretariat, Jind, and in government schools located in the villages facing the problem of flooding during the rainy season.
The Minister said the Agriculture Department was also implementing water conservation technologies by providing sprinklers and drip irrigation facilities to the farmers at subsidised rates.
Source:The Hindu 17thJuly2008.
