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JalYukt Shivar Abhiyan (JYSA) “We have taken the decision to complete one lakh “ Jalyukt Shivar (JYS)” works in 8,418 villages by June 2019” stated Maharashtra Chief Minister, Shri Devendra Fadnavis on December 30 2018. This is indeed a big yet welcome target set by the CM. But, What is the JYS scheme? Maharashtra faced severe draughts in 2012-13 and year after. In order to counter this situation in current and future times, the CM launched Jalyukt Shivar on 26 th January 2015. It was to be completed in phases over a five-year period. It is an integrated water conservation and management initiative (Jalyukt Shivar) which aimed to make 5,000 villages scarcity-free in the first phase in 2015-16. The ambitious programme, aimed at making the state scarcity-free in five years, would involve construction of a series of check dams, rejuvenation of old check dams and repair of Kolhapur Type (KT) weirs and storage tanks. The Jalyukt Shivar initiative was also to involv...