Jal Shakti Ministry  

Nand Kishore Verma met Sunder Lal Bahuguna in a book fair. He got influenced by Bahuguna’s great personality and decided to become an environmentalist himself. He gave up his second means of income and focused on getting trained to gain knowledge about water and environmental protection. In 2021, he was honoured with the ‘National Water Hero’ award.

With a view to monitor the rural drinking water supply systems in villages, ministry of Jal Shakti has decided to take the digital route to use sensor-based IoT devices to effectively monitor the implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in more than six lakh villages  
 

Villagers in Samba have claimed that the only water resource they are left with is one well, which is also on the verge of drying up
 

The new ministry is over and above the existing water resource ministry, which will be headed by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Rattan Lal Kataria will assist him

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said that former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam would have been happy about the recent success of Mission Shakti, the A-SAT missile test guided by "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas."