Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain Campaign 2024

• The Union Minister for Jal Shakti launched the fifth edition of “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain-2024” campaign.
• The campaign, themed “Nari Shakti se Jal Shakti,” emphasises the integral role of women in water conservation and management.
• The campaign comes under the National Water Mission, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in collaboration with Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation.
  • National Water Mission is one of eight National Missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
• Focused interventions of the campaign includes-
  • water conservation and rainwater harvesting,
  • enumerating, geo-tagging & making inventory of all water bodies; preparation of scientific plans for water conservation,
  • Setting up of Jal Shakti Kendras in all districts,
  • intensive afforestation and
  • awareness generation.
• Brief History
  • Ministry of Jal Shakti launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan in 2019 as a “Jan Andolan” to initiate water conservation at the grass-root level through citizen participation to accelerate water conservation across the country.
  • JSA could not be implemented in 2020 due to restrictions imposed by Covid 19 pandemic and Ministry of Jal Shakti implemented ‘Catch the Rain’ (CTR) campaign.

Ever since it was launched as “Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch The Rain” Campaign in 2021, it has become an annual feature covering all the blocks of all districts (rural as well as urban areas) across the country.