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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...

So, Who is the “BIG Spender” - Films. Sports. Politics ? Films. Sports. Politics. These are the common threads that can tie all of us together in India, regardless of "contrarian" disposition towards these fields, and their diversity - geographical, linguistical, ethnical, religion, cast and socioeconomic status. Everyone could be a biggest fan and the best critique of these public interest activities. Films  Cinema has a universal appeal in India. Across classes, castes, age groups. Indian film industry’s annual turnover for 2017 was estimated at Rs.15600 crore. Growing roughly at 10% pa, the industry would reach turnover of Rs. 17000 Crore. Cumulative turnover for the last five years would be Rs 60,000 crore + (USD 9 bn).       If you consider that, 75% of this amount was collected at box office, it would translate in a cool Rs. 45,000 Cr (USD 7 bn) inflows from the Indian public.  खेलता है इंडिया, शान से  - Sports i...