Himalayan Springs
- A NITI Aayog constituted group of experts has urged the government to set up a dedicated mission to salvage and revive spring water systems in the country’s Himalayan States
- Meghalaya with 3,810 villages with springs has the highest number of these water sources in the Eastern Himalayan States.
- Sikkim has the greatest density with 94% of its villages having a spring.
- In the Western Himalayas, Jammu & Kashmir had both the highest number of villages with springs at 3,313 and the greatest density of ....
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