Buldhana and Tamswada Pattern

Why in news?

• Union Minister Shri  Nitin Gadkari has talked about Maharashtra's 'Buldhana Pattern' and ‘Tamswada’ patterns of water conservation'

About Buldhana Pattern:

• It is a model based on synchronisation of national highway construction and water conservation.
• It was achieved for the first time in Buldhana district in Maharashtra by using soil from the water bodies, nallas and rivers for highway construction.
• This consequently lead to the increase in capacity of water storage across the water-bodies in Buldhana district and it came to be known as 'Buldhana Pattern'.
• With this activity in Maharashtra, 225 lakh cubic metre of soil was used in National Highway construction and the resultant widening / deepening resulted in increase of 22,500 Thousand Cubic Metre (TMC) of water storage capacity with no cost to state government.
• NITI Aayog is in the process of formulating National Policy on water conversation based on it.

Tamswada Pattern

•  ‘Tamswada Pattern’ relates to models of water conservation project taken up in Nagpur and Wardha district  in which rain water harvesting, conservation and groundwater recharge works were done in order to increase the water storage capacity of natural water bodies  situated in these two districts of Eastern Vidarbha. 
• ‘Tamswada  pattern’ was being implemented in 60 villages Nagpur and Wardha district while the work already completed in 40 villages.

PRELIMS QUESTION

Buldhana pattern, recently in news, is associated with the field of:
(a)Organic Farming
(b)Water Conservation
(c)Local Self Governance 
(d)Air pollution reduction 

Answer to prelims question