Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 12 (ANI/PRNewswire): Entering its 30th year since being founded in 1993, WOTR, in collaboration with its partners, has helped regenerate over 2.22 million hectares of degraded landscapes/watersheds and created over 158 billion litres of potential water harvesting capacity. As it marks the beginning of its 30th year of operation, WOTR (Watershed Organisation Trust) is proud to commemorate nearly three decades of service to rural communities in India. Since its founding in 1993, the organization has focused on reducing rural poverty and implementing community-led watershed development at scale. Over the past three decades, WOTR along with its partners has worked in 10 states and impacted over 5.17 million people in 5,739 villages. WOTR grew out of the very successful Indo-German Watershed Development Project (IGWDP) launched in 1989. Adopting a systemic approach to tackle rural poverty, the organisation uses the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approac
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The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has not yet come up with a blueprint to achieve this target although the announcement was made in November 2021. Similarly, some initiatives, like National Hydrogen Mission and National Electric Mobility Mission Plan, have been initiated, but it is not clear how much they will contribute to emission reduction.