Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed spiritual leader Sadhguru's ‘Cauvery Calling’ initiative on Tuesday. PM has opined that this would help in harnessing and preventing unnecessary wast of water. PM has also extended his wishes to Sadhguru on his birthday and prayed for his long life. This reaction was a response to Sadhguru’s tweet where he lauded former’s vision to make Jal Shakti Abhiyan a people’s movement and asked for support on ‘Cauvery Calling’ campaign. 

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‘Cauvery Calling’ initiative

Sadhguru is founder of Isha Foundation, a n-profit and spiritual organization. Starting Tuesday, he is leading a motorcycle rally from Talacauvery, origin of Cauvery river in Karnataka, culminating in Chennai. Around 3500 km would be covered. aim of 'Cauvery Calling' rally is to seek public support for conservation of Cauvery river.  Isha Foundation has set a target of planting 242 crore trees in Cauvery basin, reby revitalizing river itself and improving lives of millions of farmers. focus would be on motivating farmers to switch from water-intensive crops to agroforestry. Basically, Agroforestry implies practice of growing fruit or timber trees along with full-time crops or on a full-fledged basis. 

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Jal Shakti Abhiyan

Since his re-election in May 2019, PM Modi had repeatedly stressed on water conservation becoming a movement in India. A special Ministry of Jal Shakti was carved out for this purpose. Taking a cue from PM, Jal Shakti Ministry headed by Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat anunced Jal Shakti Abhiyan on July 1, that would focus on water conservation and water security. It would run in two phases- first one from July 1 to September 15 in all states and Union Territories (UTs) and second from October 2 to vember 30 for states and UTs receiving retreating monsoon. During this campaign, groundwater experts and scientists would work with state and district officials in country's most water-stressed districts to ensure water conservation and better water resource manment. 

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