SATHI Portal
SATHI portal and new Mobile App launched by Union Government
- Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched the SATHI portal and Mobile App to deal with the challenges faced by farmers related to seed production, quality seed identification, and seed certification.
- Objective: Designed to curb the sale of spurious seeds and ensure that quality seeds reach farmers.
- SATHI– Seed Traceability, Authentication, and Holistic Inventory.
‘PRAYAG Platform’
- PRAYAG stands for Platform for Real time Analysis of Yamuna, Ganga and their Tributaries
- Prayag is a real time monitoring centre for planning and monitoring of projects, river water quality, etc. through various online dashboards such as Ganga Tarang Portal, Ganga Districts Performance Monitoring System, etc.
- Launched by: Ministry of Jal Shakti, Under the ambit of Namami Gange Programme.
About Namami Gange Programme:
- Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission, approved as a ‘Flagship Programme’ by the Union Government in June 2014 to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and conservation and rejuvenation of National River Ganga.
- It is being operated under the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti.
- The program is being implemented by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), and its state counterpart organizations i.e State Program Management Groups (SPMGs).
- NMCG is the implementation wing of National Ganga Council (set in 2016; which replaced the National Ganga River Basin Authority – NGRBA).
The main pillars of the programme are:
- Sewage Treatment Infrastructure
- River Front Development
- River Surface Cleaning
- Biodiversity
- Afforestation
- Public Awareness
- Industrial Effluent Monitoring
- Ganga Gram
