March 29, 2024

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ITC, Karnataka govt join hands to execute Watershed Development Programme

Diversified conglomerate, ITC Confined has entered into a partnership with the Federal government of Karnataka to execute a Watershed Advancement Programme covering more than one million acres and a hundred watersheds across the State.

The arrangement between ITC’s Social Investments programme, Mission Sunehra Kal, and the Karnataka Watershed Advancement Office, before this thirty day period, will be in outcome for a few years. It is portion of the State’s “Watershed Advancement for Drought Proofing” programme which aims at covering one.sixteen-million acres of watershed place in 29 districts.

ITC will make a consortium of professionals to prepare government officials to use the company’s drought proofing framework for planning, implementation and monitoring of the programme, it mentioned in a push launch. The firm will meet up with the price of professionals, training, ability making and worth addition for drought proofing when the government will bear the price of the drought proofing pursuits.

Project committee

A project administration committee, with the Commissioner of the Watershed Advancement Office as Chairperson and ITC as Convenor, will oversee the functioning of the project, the launch extra.

ITC’s Integrated Watershed Advancement initiative cumulatively addresses more than one.one million acres in 37 districts in fourteen States. Nearly twenty,400 rainwater harvesting constructions have produced possible freshwater storage ability of three.68 million kilolitres, which is more than a few situations the net drinking water consumed by ITC’s operations. To allow scaling up of its programmes, ITC has entered into forty four community-non-public-individuals partnerships in watershed enhancement with a variety of governments and NABARD. ITC’s interventions to market drinking water use effectiveness in agriculture has led to drinking water price savings of twenty-forty five per cent in crops these types of as wheat, rice, sugarcane and banana.

Commenting on the partnership, Ashesh Ambasta, Government Vice-President & Head Social Investments, ITC Confined mentioned: “For years, the firm has been at the forefront of drinking water stewardship programmes in India and our attempts have been focussed on scaling up integrated watershed enhancement projects across various States. Our initiatives are aligned with government missions like Jal Shakti Abhiyan and Additional-Crop-For every-Drop.”