{"id":18960,"date":"2026-06-09T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/vice-president-briefed-on-water-conservation-river-inter-linking\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:35:24","slug":"vice-president-briefed-on-water-conservation-river-inter-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/vice-president-briefed-on-water-conservation-river-inter-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President briefed on water conservation, river inter-linking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131608257,imgsize-256490,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/image-credit-pti.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President briefed on water conservation, river inter-linking\" title=\"(Image credit: PTI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Top Union Jal Shakti ministry officials on Tuesday briefed vice president C P Radhakrishnan on steps being taken on water conservation and inter-linking of rivers.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>Besides being briefed on intra-state river-linking initiatives, he was briefed on key programmes such as Namami Gange, the National River Conservation Plan, Jal Shakti Abhiyan, and the Flood Management and Border Areas Programme.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>According to the vice president&#8217;s secretariat, Radhakrishnan appreciated the department&#8217;s flagship initiative &#8220;Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari&#8221; that was launched to strengthen water conservation and groundwater recharge through a whole-of-society approach.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Union Jal Shakti minister C R Patil, minister of State Raj Bhushan Choudhary, and senior officials of the ministry were present at the meeting.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>In 2019, the government had renamed and reorganised the Water Resources ministry into the Jal Shakti ministry. PTI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/environment\/vice-president-briefed-on-water-conservation-river-inter-linking\/articleshow\/131608115.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Top Union Jal Shakti ministry officials on Tuesday briefed vice president C P Radhakrishnan on steps being taken on water conservation and inter-linking of rivers.Besides being briefed on intra-state river-linking initiatives, he was briefed on key programmes such as Namami Gange, the National River Conservation Plan, Jal Shakti Abhiyan, and the Flood Management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}