Centre 'acutely' alive to groundwater depletion

  • 30/07/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

Depletion of groundwater remains a formidable problem for the country as a whole and the Centre is acutely alive to this issue and circulated a model bill to the States setting out steps to arrest the fast running down of groundwater the Lok Sabha was informed. Responding to a question raised by Mr. Ashok N. Mohol, the Minister of Water Resources, Mr Arjun Charan Sethi, said that some state governments, have enacted such legislation based on the model bill of the Centre in this regard.