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On February 3, 2021, Jal Shakti Ministry launched a new portal for Gobardhan scheme. This portal is a one stop window and a unified approach for various schemes, programmes and initiatives under Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin. Gobardhan scheme is an initiative launched in April, 2018 which aims at cleanliness in villages aligned with generating bio-fuels from organic wastes. Gobardhan symbolize ‘Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources’ in villages. The Unified portal of Gobardhan is a new, user friendly portal which will enable real time information and coordination between stakeholders and departments.
Portal Overview:
| Portal name: | Unified Portal of Gobardhan |
| Portal under: | Central Government |
| Launched By: | Jal Shakti Ministry |
| Coordination By: | Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation |
| Designed by: | National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics & Information |
| Objective: | To provide a unified approach for waste management and overall rural development |
| Website: | sbm.gov.in |
Objectives and Benefits:
- The main objective of the portal is to provide a platform for unified approach in waste management
- The portal functions as a one stop window for coordination between various stakeholders and departments/ ministries
- Gobardhan scheme enables the villagers to convert the biodegradable waste to effective bio gas and fertilizers
- It aims at increasing and promoting entrepreneurship thereby creating more employment opportunities in villages
- The portal provides complete transparency about the initiatives, schemes and programmes related to biodegradable waste management and cleanliness
- The portal also contains information about the scheme, stakeholders, resources, etc which provides a real time information platform
- Apart from various details even social feeds, tweets and contact details of different ministries are available on the portal
Key Points:
- Unified portal of Gobardhan, is a portal for Gobardhan scheme launched by the Jal Shakti Ministry on February 3, 2021
- Gobardhan scheme was launched in 2018 for the managing the biodegradable waste and maintain cleanliness level in the villages
- This scheme is under Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin
- A collective and unified approach is enabled for biodegradable waste management in villages through this portal as various departments and ministries will be working towards the same
- The key stakeholders in this initiative are Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; Ministry pf Petroleum and Natural Gas; Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying; Department of Agriculture; Cooperation and farmers Welfare; Department of Agricultural Research and Education and Department of Rural Development
- Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation will be coordination between the departments and ministries for a unified approach
- Biofuel, biogas management, waste management, etc will be covered under this initiative
- The portal provides complete transparency about the initiatives, schemes and programmes
- It aims at increasing and promoting entrepreneurship thereby creating more employment opportunities in villages
- It will strengthen the rural economy through this unified approach
- The portal will enable transparency regarding the schemes, programmes and initiatives active thereby
- It will also enable social responsibility and accountability
- The homepage URL for the portal is http://sbm.gov.in/gbdw20/Home.aspx
