<Tr> <Th> Established </Th> <Td> 26 January 2016 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> wcd.maharashtra.gov.in </Td> </Tr> <P> The Maharashtra government in India has launched a water conservation scheme named Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan to make Maharashtra a drought - free state by 2019 . The programme aims to make 5000 villages free of water scarcity every year . </P> <P> The key aim of Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan is to establish belief in a farmer that "every drop of rainwater is owned by me and it should percolate in my land". </P>

A major initiative undertaken for water conservation namely jalayukta shivar in