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The North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme (NERTPS) is an umbrella scheme implemented in project mode to promote textiles industry in the NER by providing infrastructure, capacity building and marketing support to the industry. The scheme covers all sectors and subsectors of the value chain of textiles, handloom, handicrafts, sericulture, jute etc.
Infrastructure such as roads, power, water supply, construction of office buildings etc. will not be funded under the scheme/projects. Support to such components should be explored through convergence/dovetailing with other schemes/ programmes of the State Governments / North Eastern Council (NEC) / Central Government

• The programme was launched in 1974-75 and was restructured and renamed as Command Area Development and Water Management (CADWM) Programme in 2004. Now the programme is being implemented under Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY) – Har Khet Ko Pani from 2015-16. The ongoing CADWM programme has now been restricted to implementation of CAD works of 99 prioritized AIBP projects.
  Components of CADWM Programme
  Components of Command Area Development and Water Management being implemented for completion of CAD works of the prioritised AIBP projects are:
  1.Structural Intervention:
• On-Farm Development (OFD) works
• Construction of field, intermediate & link drains
• Correction of system deficiencies; and
• Reclamation of waterlogged areas.
  2.Non-Structural Intervention: Activities directed at strengthening of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)

National Water Mission(NWM), Ministry of Jal Shakti in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports launched the “Jal Shakti Abhiyan II: Catch the Rain” Awareness Generation Campaign recently
The “Catch the Rain” campaign launched by National Water Mission(NWM) is an awareness generation program nudging the state governments and stakeholders to take up rain water harvesting structures appropriate to the soil-substrata and climatic conditions, with active participation of people.
Duration of the campaign: The awareness generation phase of campaign will run from mid-December 2020 to March 2021.
Tagline of the campaign: NWM has launched a campaign Catch the rain” with tagline “catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls” in order to nudge all stake-holders to create Rain Water Harvesting Structures (RWHS)

Grossly Polluting Industries (GPI) are defined as the industry which is discharging wastewater more than 100 kilo litres a day and/or hazardous chemicals used by the industry as specified under the Schedule-I, Part-II of The Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules of 1989 under Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

The “e-CHARAK” an e-channel for Herbs, Aromatic, Raw material and knowledge is a platform to enable information exchange between various stakeholders mainly farmers involved in the medicinal plants sector across the country
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of AYUSH and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have jointly developed “e-CHARAK” mobile application as well as web portal for the promotion and marketing of medicinal plants/herbs.