Save water drive in 81 ‘dark zone’ blocks

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 9

The Haryana Government has launched a special water conservation campaign in 81 ‘dark zone’ blocks of the 19 districts of the state from July 1. The drive will continue till September 15 and will be run in the entire state later.

This information was given at a meeting of the state-level monitoring committee constituted for the Jal Shakti campaign under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Keshni Anand Arora here today.

Arora said that under Jal Shakti Abhiyan, the flagship scheme of the Centre, rainwater would be collected and recharging of ground water would be done.

The Chief Secretary directed the officers to promote plantation of trees in three urban local bodies namely Gurugram, Faridabad and Karnal. Besides this, with an estimate of 500 plants for every village, a target has been set to plant 30 lakh saplings in the rural areas of the state.