UNESCO New Delhi, along with the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and other partners, organised a hybrid event with school children and teachers to celebrate ‘World Water Day 2021’. The event included felicitating the winners of a water conservation awareness programme, and screening of their winning animation short films, according to an official release. UNESCO launched this nation-wide programme for school children in India, in partnership with the National Mission for Clean Ganga, the United Schools Organization (USO), Water Digest and India based global animation major Toonz Media Group. Entitled ‘H2Ooooh! -Waterwise program for children of India ’, this innovative initiative encouraged school students between the age of 6-14 years to submit story ideas for animated short films to raise awareness on water conservation and its sustainable use.
On the occasion of World Water Day 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign named
Correct Answer :
Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain.
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The correct option is Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain.
On the occasion of World Water Day (22nd March) 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the nationwide campaign ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain’ via video conferencing.
Key highlights of the campaign include:
- The theme/tagline of the campaign was "Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls".
- It was launched to focus on water conservation at the grass-roots level through people's participation.
- The initiative covered all rural and urban areas in every district across India during the pre-monsoon and monsoon period in the country.
- A historic Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was also signed between the Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to implement the Ken Betwa Link Project as part of this event.
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