Central scheme to revitalise water bodies

Ponds and lakes have traditionally played an important role in irrigation, drinking water supply, hydropower, ecology, tourism, culture and domestic use in India. The importance of some of these water bodies has waned due to a number of reasons like shifting away from community-based tank system to individual beneficiary oriented ground water dependent system, encroachments, silting, population pressure, multiplicity of agencies responsible for their upkeep.

The funding pattern for the scheme:

# For special category states (North-Eastern States including Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and undivided Koraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi (KBK) districts of Orissa) as well as projects benefiting drought prone/tribal/maoist-affected areas, 90 per cent of the project cost will be provided as central assistance (grant) by the Government of India and 10 per cent of the cost by state governments

# For non-special category states 25 per cent of the cost will be provided as Central assistance (grant) by Central government and 75 per cent by state governments