Jal Shakti department created on lines of Centre

LUCKNOW: With the creation of a new Jal Shakti department, chief minister Yogi Adityanath has begun implementing the recommendations of Niti Aayog by cutting down the inflated size of the government by integrating similar departments into one.
The beginning of the making of the Jal Shakti department on the lines of Centre, Yogi has shown the will to follow prime minister Narendra Modi’s mantra of “minimum government, maximum governance.” In his re-allotment of portfolios and departments, the CM has integrated the irrigation and Namami Gange departments by creating a new Jal Shakti department and handed it over to the newly-elevated minister Mahendra Singh.So far irrigation was a separate and a huge department with its network reaching up to blocks and villages in all the 75 districts. The irrigation department had been created in the British period and now it will be part of the Jal Shakti department and not an independent department. The new Union Jal Shakti minister at the Centre had visited Lucknow last month and interacted with the state government.