Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
AND THEIR ROLES
The key and most important aspects of the projects lie with the
project management and leaders. Bureaucrats are proposed to be the
implementation heads of such projects. A primary requirement of an interdisciplinary
project of this kind is coordinated action by bureaucrats in
charge of different departments. Tree plantation is a time bound activity and
coordination and convergence becomes a mandatory requirement. That is, if
the saplings are not planted in the pre-decided time, the money and effort
will only be wasted. Once the tree-farming system is set up, on a continuing
basis, there has to be co-ordinated action by various institutions to generate
products (fruits, timber and NTFP) and market them, and to maintain
production systems (soil health, irrigation efficiency, pest control, credit)
transport systems (transport infrastructure) and marketing systems (storage
and market infrastructure).
FOREST DEPARTMENT
In community forestry on forest land, the Gram Sabha and community
forest management institution will be in the forefront of species choice,
tree planting and raising, harvesting and trade. Forest departments have to
play a crucial facilitative role for QPM, technology, credit, transit, market
information and security. The tasks required for plantation across a river’s
length in the state will involve these tasks:
• Planning the trees for different zones across the length of river.
• Procure seeds of the different set of trees that are planned for both private
land and government land.
• Create and develop nurseries with the trees planned for the proposed length
of the river.
• Distribute the private land forestry saplings to the agriculture department/
farmers directly.
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