MIHIR SHAH COMMITTEE

About: 

• The committee has 10 principal members. It will be chaired by Mihir Shah, who is a former Planning Commission member and a water expert.
  
  
• The committee is expected to produce a report within six months.
  
  

National Water Policy (NWP), 2012?

• The NWP currently in force was drafted in 2012.
  
  
• It introduced the concept of an Integrated Water Resources Management approach that took the “river basin/ sub-basin” as a unit for planning, development and management of water resources.
  
  
• It also proposed that a portion of river flows ought to be kept aside to meet ecological needs.
  
  
• That policy also stressed for a minimum quantity of potable water for essential health and hygiene to all its citizens to be made available within easy reach of households.