Maintain and raise MSP to protect the rivers
Maintain and raise MSP to protect the rivers
Arun Kumar Gupta, Bharat Jhunjhunwala
The farmers are agitating for ensuring the continuation of Minimum Support Price (MSP) by legislation. One aspect of this demand is that they be assured of minimum remunerative prices for their produce. Another aspect is that MSP can become the instrument for saving our rivers.
According to the Consortium of the Indian Institutes of Technologies that made the Ganga River Basin Management Plan, the rivers are the best measure of the overall health of our environment. The condition of our land is reflected in the rivers through agricultural runoff. The river water will become poisonous if the land has become poisonous due to the use of pesticides. The same will happen if the air is polluted. Maintenance of the health of the river requires that it has sufficient water just as maintenance of the health of a human being requires that her body has sufficient
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Like in fight against COVID-19, world needs to unite against water crisis: Jal Shakti Minister ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 20:37 IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday said the world needs to come together to meet the challenges of the water sector in the same way as the world has united in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shekhawat was speaking at the concluding session of fifth India Water Impact Summit organised by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (cGanga) to explore new technologies in water security and rejuvenation of local water bodies in the country.
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The Centre has said that the world needs to come together to meet the challenges of the water sector.
The focal point of discussion on the last day of the 5th India Water Impact Summit was River Conservation Synchronised Navigation and Flood Management .
Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday said that the world needs to come together to meet the challenges of the water sector in the same way as the world has united in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was speaking at the concluding session of the 5th India Water Impact Summit. The focal point of discussion on the last day of the summit was River Conservation Synchronised Navigation and Flood Management .
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