New Delhi, Jun 17 : The ministry of rural development said Mizoram had made impressive progress achieving water security in the state. Currently, the state is running various programs to save water and optimum use of it.
"One of the water security projects is integrated watershed management programme (IWMP). It has been impressive with the coverage extending over 433,803 hectares of land.
Out of the 52 sanctioned projects spread over eight districts 51 projects are operational at present," the ministry said in its official statement.
So far, during the current financial year 2010-11, Rs 4.41 crore has been released as Central share. 
According to the ministry's data, during 2009-10 a total of Rs 5.057 crore were released for the sanctioned 16 projects under which a total of 62,435 hectares of land was covered.
"The programme helps us prevent soil run-off, regeneration of natural vegetation, rain water harvesting and recharging of the ground water table.
This enables multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse agro-based activities, which help provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed area," the ministry added.
In addition, the scheme of technology development, extension and training (TDET) is also being implemented to promote development of cost effective and proven technologies to support watershed management.
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