Q. Tarun Bharat Sangh, an organization based in a village near Alwar (Rajasthan), has become famous due to which of the following reasons?
Answer: Rain-water harvesting
Notes: Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) is a non-profitable environmental NGO; with headquarter in Bheekampura, Alwar, Rajasthan. Dr Rajendra Singh (known as Water man of India) is the incumbent chairman of TBS since 1985. TBS started their work with mobilizing communities around the issue of water, and supporting them in reviving and revitalising the traditional systems of water management through construction of ‘Johads’, ‘Anicut’, and ‘Bands’ for rain water harvesting from shramdan and partly by TBS. TBS has built on existing cultural traditions of the area to revive the feeling of oneness with nature which existed in the village communities and to create an understanding and ethos of integrated ecosystem development.
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