The Housing and Urban Development Department has completed construction of 10,000 rain water harvesting structures in Catch The Rain Campaign under MUKTA scheme in Odisha.
The Department had launched a state-wide campaign on the theme “Catch the Rain: Where it Falls and When it Falls” across all the 114 Urban Local Bodies of the state under MUKTA programme.
The campaign started on April 15 with an objective of constructing at least 5,000 Rainwater Harvesting Structures (RWHS) to facilitate in-situ water conservation and groundwater recharge in 114 towns of Odisha before the onset of south-west monsoon.
The campaign has been taken up in a mission mode under the leadership of H & UD secretary G MathiVathanan to achieve the intended outcomes within the timeframe.
Involvement of Community Based Organisations (CBO) such as Mission Shakti Groups has been accorded highest priority in the execution process by engaging them as implementing agency.
So far, the journey of Catch the Rain Campaign has been highly rewarding with overwhelming support from the ground. As a result, the Department has been able to achieve more than 10,000 RWHS constructed in the urban pockets of the state within two months.
All these 10,000 RWHS are of low-cost structures specially designed based on hydro-geological parameters prevailing in the state.Dailyhunt