{"id":256406,"date":"2025-02-07T00:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=256406"},"modified":"2025-02-07T00:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:44:38","slug":"rd-dept-launches-statewide-watershed-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/rd-dept-launches-statewide-watershed-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"RD dept launches statewide &#8216;watershed yatra&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YUPIA, 6 Feb:<\/strong> The Rural Development (RD) Department launched a statewide &#8216;watershed yatra&#8217;, simultaneously with the central government, under the Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (WDC-PMKSY-2.0), at Borum ground here in Papum Pare district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MLA and RD minister&#8217;s adviser Tanya Soki flagged off the yatra. The programme included distribution of DolR and 1,000 GoI designed T-shirts to the &#8216;watershed yodhas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the occasion, Soki elaborated the benefits of WDC-PMKSY-2.0 schemes, and advised the public to take advantage of the schemes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlighting the scarcity of water everywhere, he said, &#8220;It is the utmost duty of each individual to protect and preserve Mother Earth with clean environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, RD Director Tajin Jonnom briefed the gathering on the objective of the watershed yatra. RD Joint Director (Rural Engineering) Chera Sanjiv also presented a brief on the WDC-PMKSY-2.0 schemes, and the objective of watershed yatra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that &#8220;the watershed yatra will cover 18 districts, 49 blocks and 51 project areas, along with yatra van team, drama team and officers from the state level nodal agency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yupia RD Project Director Bengia Yakar also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The yatra, which started from Papum Pare district, will culminate on 18 March in Kamle district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, union RD Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the watershed yatra from Madhya Pradesh. The yatra &#8211; a mass outreach campaign of the union land resource department &#8211; aims to generate people&#8217;s participation and create awareness about the watershed development activities carried out under the WDC-PMKSY-2.0 in the project areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YUPIA, 6 Feb: The Rural Development (RD) Department launched a statewide &#8216;watershed yatra&#8217;, simultaneously with the central government, under the Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (WDC-PMKSY-2.0), at Borum ground here in Papum Pare district on Wednesday. MLA and RD minister&#8217;s adviser Tanya Soki flagged off the yatra. The programme included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}