Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 has played a phenomenal role in conserving water resources in the country. Justify (200 Words)
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· Over the past 15 years, the MGNREGA programme has helped bolster water sufficiency and management of precipitation in many villages.
· The rural employment guarantee Act was amended in 2014 to ensure that at least 60% of the expenditure was on projects that benefit agriculture and allied activities.
· The rural development ministry in 2019 that 75% of the activities under MGNREGA directly improve water security and water conservation efforts.
· 30 million water conservation-related works have been undertaken through MGNREGA, creating a water conservation potential of close to 29,000 million cubic metres of water.
· While Bandlapalli in Ananthapuramu district of Andhra Pradesh the first village in India where MGNREGA was implemented saw recurring drought and large-scale migration in 2006, in 2021, it has 900-plus water harvesting structures.
· The water-harvesting capacity helped it become drought-proof; in 2018-19, when the district reported the lowest rainfall in a century, the village was not impacted.
· Barmani in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, abandoned because of distress migration in 2006, but by 2021, it had 7 big ponds and 39 wells that had perennial water availability.
· MGNREGA helped Pookkottukavu in Kerala go from being a water-scarce village to seeing dying water streams be revived.
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