The Rural Development Ministry has approved 56 new Watershed Development Projects that will be undertaken at a cost of Rs 700 crores in the ten best-performing states, the government said on Monday.

Watershed development projects serve to achieve multiple objectives, which call for integrating and balancing various concerns, such as environmental conservation, productivity, participation and ...

Reinvigorating Watershed Development Studies have repeatedly shown that poverty and distress in India are increasingly concentrated in its dryland areas. It has also been argued that the impact of ...

Explore the impact of Odisha Watershed Development Funds on agriculture and community sustainability in Odisha's rural areas.

The population in more than 1000 revenue villages in eight hill districts will be benefited by developing 82 micro watershed areas to generate traditional water sources, besides pastures and ...

As many as 900 gram panchayats of 10 districts in the state would be covered under the second phase of the Himachal Pradesh Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project (HPMHWDP) to boost the rural ...

The Chesapeake Bay Program’s land use and land cover change mapping project compares the landscape across three different ...

The rural development and panchayati raj department has issued an order to merge the watershed development and soil conservation department with the panchayati raj department. However, the engineers ...

Most people wouldn’t consider the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) — a relatively obscure government agency — to be a player in local real estate circles. But on Jan. 4, the watershed ...