It’s 3 am on a weekday in March, and the churmuri bhattis (puffed rice ovens) of Kolikere, in North Karnataka, are just cranking up. Men troop into dimly lit workshops to begin the first task.
The panel recommended reviewing the adequacy of the current cost norms and increase the cost norm for the plains based on a third-party evaluation conducted by the NITI Aayog under the Watershed Development Component (WDC) of the flagship Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana (PMKSY)
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
Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) joins hands with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for the implementation of Watershed Development projects in Mandi District of Himachal Pradesh.
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