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Discuss the targets of focused interventions of the Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain, 2024 in rural and urban areas.

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The campaign is a pre-monsoon mobilisation, timed so that structures are ready before the rain. Its premise is that 75-80 per cent of India's rainfall arrives in about a hundred days, so the binding constraint is not annual total but retention time.

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  • The context that set the targets
  • The five focused interventions
  • 1. Water conservation and rainwater harvesting
  • 2. Enumeration, geo-tagging and scientific planning of water bodies
  • 3. Jal Shakti Kendras in every district
  • 4. Intensive afforestation
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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