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SBIPO2015:Essayon"WaterCrisisandtheMonsoonFactorin
India"
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OnaccountofSBIPO2015forthepostofProbationaryOfficer,herewe
areprovidingyouallanessayon"WaterCrisisandtheMonsoonFactor
inIndia,Discussthenecessarymeasures."Hopeyoulikethepost!!!

WaterCrisisandtheMonsoonFactorinIndia,Discussthenecessary
measures.
India is largely a tropical country, with nearly twothirds of its population
eking out its meagre living on agriculture. Agriculture's contribution in our
economy is 13.9 per cent. Therefore one can infer that our agriculture is a
problemsilencer and problemadder, the former because where the
employmentishiddenbydisguisedemploymentandthelatterbecauselarge
amount of our workforce goes waste because of the dismal productivity.
Discountingallthesenegativities,thefactofthematterremainsthatoursis
predominantly an agricultural economy. Farming community in India derives
itslifebloodfromthemonsoondependentagriculture.Peopleworkhard,put
in consistent efforts but at the end of the day, the returns remain uncertain,
andnolesselusive.Theprimaryreasonfortheuncertaintyisourunevenand
uncertain water resources. Where large swathes of land remain dry for large
partsoftheyear,somemonthsgivefarmersabigworrybyfloodsandtheir
regularunseemliness.
Watercrisis in our country is an everpervading reality. Many a people die,
directly and indirectly, because of water deficiency, water depletion and
water sufficiency but having become poison. With increasing subsistence
and use of water, it is no rocketscience to understand that a substantial
number of our northIndian perennial rivers have either become dead, near
dead or heavily polluted. The example of a dead river in recent times is
Hindon river (Zero BOD) in western Uttar Pradesh, Yamuna of Delhi is a
neardeadriverandourmightyGanga,despiteitslargecarryingcapacity,isa
heavilypolluted river. The pollution of rivers has only made our worst fears
cometrueandhasshatteredourlivesingeneralandoffarmersinparticular.
TheimpactofpollutionandsubsequentwatercrisisinGangaonNorthIndia
can be measured from the sentence, "What is brain for human machine,
GangaisforNorthernplains.Whenbrainisdead,thepatientisbraindead."
Water crisis in India is also deeply entrenched because of our mindless and
historicaloverrelianceonMonsoon,whichcomesatitsownwillandgoesat
its own, sometimes clicks and sometimes strikes, sometimes earlier and
sometimes delayed. Though, it is veritably true that Monsoon has been the
historical cornerstone of our agriculture but the absence, resulting out of
reluctanceofsubsequentregimes,ofanyconcretegameplantomitigatethe
effects of the gaps and inadequacies in the monsoons has made Monsoon
our weak point. Though there have been in place certain measures like
Rashtriya Kisan Vikas Yojana and other subsidies in place to help the
farmersbutthezilchprogressonsettingthestructureoftheagricultureisthe
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real grave problem. Present government's scheme Rashtriya Krishi

Sinchaaye Yojana for irrigation to agriculture is a step in the right direction.
Similarly"perdropmorecrop"isapositivesteptoensureeffectiveutilization
ofwater.Sprinklerirrigationonacountrywidescalecanalsohelp.
Since watercrisis has a direct impact on us all in general and poor
agriculturists in particular, it is imperative to keep the interests of the Indian
farmers,largelyhavingsmalllandholdings,inmind,ontheforefront.Thereis
a project named National River Linking Project (NRLP), a pet project of the
previous NDA government, which is being looked into anew. From how it
hasbeendesigned,onecansaythatitmayprovidesomekindofsuccourto
the regions which experience a deficient rainfall and notemporary water
crisis like Bundelkhand of UP and adjoining region of MP (where Sesame,
Arhar, Soyabean etc are grown), Vidharbha of Maharashtra (Where Cotton
and Sugarcane are Grown), arid and semiarid regions of Karnataka and
Andhra Pradesh like Tumkur, Bellary, Anantpur etc. It can be that our water
unevenness gets somewhat solved by the project but the constraints raised
by different environmental and policy groups are a barrier yet in thinking of
the project as a panacea to every waterrelated problem that our country is
confrontedwith.
Watercrisisisnowheretogoatleastfortheforeseeablefuturebutitiswithin
therealmsofpossibilitytostriveandthenusherintheenergytomoderateits
effects.Judicioususeoftheresource,effectivecyclingandrecyclingofthe
usedwaterandinnovationinthewaterdeliverysystemsforagriculturehave
thepotentialtomakeourwaterwoesmuchlesspainful,ifnotfullypainless.

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