Fadnavis slams govt for blocking funds to Jalyukt Shivar, calls it a 'people's movement'

Speaking at a garing in Akluj town in Solapur district on Sunday, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis castigated Maha Vikas Aghadi government for putting a stay on Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan programme. scheme was launched during Fadnavis’ tenure as Maharashtra CM in December 2014. Mentioning that more than half of state did t have access to irrigation, he ted that aforesaid scheme had achieved a lot. Fadnavis contended that it was impossible to stop Jalyukt Shivar as it had become a “people’s movement”.

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Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan

Hundreds of vills in regions such as Vidarbha and Marathwada often tend to experience droughts for years toger. Jalyukt Shivar set an ambitious target of making 5,000 drought-prone vills free of water scarcity. Under this scheme, various water conservation initiatives such as construction of farm ponds, rejuvenation of water stor capacity, building decentralised water bodies and so forth were undertaken. However, n opposition parties cast aspersion over success of this scheme and alleged irregularities.  

Stay on key decisions

Since taking oath as Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray has been accused by opposition of reversing key decisions of previous government. For instance, he ordered an immediate stay on  construction of Mumbai Metro 3 car shed in Aarey forest. At present,  Maharashtra government has refused to release funds for pending works in Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Ahmednagar district under Jalyukt Shivar scheme.

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