Gujarat-based non-profit Gir Ganga Parivar Trust working with a pledge to build 1,11,111 water conservation structures, is organising Dr. Kumar Vishwas’s Jal Katha in Rajkot on 15-17 December.
The event ‘Jal Katha: Apne Shyaam’ will be registered by the ‘Guiness Book’ as the ‘World’s first Jal Katha - World’s biggest gathering for water conservation’. The record will also be registered by many other prestigious record keeping agencies like Limca Book, India book, Global book, IEA book, Asia Pacific Book, Records International and OMG books.
According to Dilip Sakhiya, founder, Gir Ganga Trust, “I am the son of a farmer. After travelling through hundreds of villages and towns I found that water was the single biggest problem for farmers and citizens. Availability of water drives the entire economy. So I have taken up the mission to go to villages and help them conserve water.”
Gir Ganga Trust has so far accomplished 9000+ water conservation structures including construction of check dams, repairing of non-working ones, deepening or raising height wherever required, creating storage lakes, providing water recharging infrastructure for deep wells etc. The non-profit has so far mobilised ₹50 crores for water conservation mission through CSR funds. The NGO currently employs 50 full-time staff with other 20-25 contract labour as per requirement and has 20 heavy construction equipments like excavators and JCB.
The Rajkot ‘Jal Katha’ by Kumar Vishwas is expected to be attended by over 1.5 lakh people. The Katha will enlighten people on the importance of water and water conservation with reference to our scriptures and sanatan dharma in a very interesting manner.
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