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Govt launches compaign for water conservation
Young Bites. Dated: 7/14/2018 11:01:25 AM
VK Gupta
Jammu, July 13
Due to water scarcity Govt has launched compaign to make aware the public, how to conserve water for future generation otherwise they are going to face acute water crisis in the coming future.
Government has decided to honour such persons who are actively involved in this compaign by giving them different prizes and to encourage the other people to come forward and join shoulder to shoulder to make this event a great success. The main aim of this compaign was to save each and every drop of water to conserve and to overcome the acute water scarcity in the near future. Union Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has launched fortnightly video contest “Jal Bachao, Video Banao, PuruskarPao”. The contest aims to engage with people of the country on the important issues of water conservation and water management. For running this contest, Ministry has joined hands with MyGov portal .The contest will last till 4th November 2018 and three winners will be chosen every fortnight. In this contest, participants can make and upload videos by capturing efforts, significant contributions, best practices in the field of water conservation, water resource development and management and optimum water utilization in different parts of the country. They can also submit any innovative advertisement or commercial on water Conservation.The duration of video should be minimum 2 minutes and up to 10 minutes. It should be either in Hindi, English or any other regional language. It must not violate any provision of Copyright Act, 1957 or Intellectual Property Rights of any third party.The participants will be judged on basis of elements of creativity, originality, composition, technical excellence, artistic merit, quality of video, content and visual impact. The prize amount for first, second and third positions is Rs 25,000, Rs 15,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively. This will boost the morale of the common masses and would definitelycompel them to come forward and contribute for the noble cause.