The document summarizes fisheries initiatives in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. It discusses the state government's encouragement of small ponds on private land for drought relief. It also details the opening of a Fisheries College to develop human resources and conduct research to disseminate improved fisheries practices. The fisheries sector provides employment and income to over 2.5 lakh people and plays an important role in rural economies and nutrition. The new fisheries policy in Chhattisgarh includes leasing water bodies for fishing and reserving some for unemployed youth who receive training.

1. Fisheries Minister

2. The Chhattisgarh Government has encouraged
constructing small ponds on private land as per
Draught relief program.

3. It is considered that this
supplementary water area will
demonstrate a bonus to fish
seed rearing & fish culture
program.

4. The contributions which are being made to set up
more circular hatcheries in private and public sector
to pull up all the accessible resources of inventions
will be creating novel facilities for rearing and
production both in the coming years.

5. The fisheries minister looks after the availability of water
resources.

6. The high rain fall and good temperature regime
stimulated state government to open a Fishey College.

7. The College of Fisheries was inaugurated at
Kawardha in Chhattisgarh on July 16, 2010.
The college is presently running in a hired
building.

8. A forty acre land has been acquired and a full-fledged campus is
being established. The college provided a number of facilities:
 To impart education of fisheries and allied sciences
 Human resources development for fisheries sector
 To prepare self-employed personnel of fish farming
 To conduct need-based research in fishery sector
 To disseminate improved fishery practices at the door
step of the stakeholders

9. Under the influence of fisheries minister, the fisheries
sector has been recognized as an authoritative
employment and income generator and plays a
significant part in rural economy and is a foundation of
nutritious and cheap food.

10. For livelihood around 2.50 lakh fishermen in
Chhattisgarh depend on aquaculture and fisheries.

11. The fisheries segment occupies a vital place in the socio
- economic development of Chhattisgarh.

12. It furnishes principally to the need of socio -
economically backward and weaker communities of
fishermen, scheduled tribes and scheduled castes. Fish is
easily edible and protein - rich nutritive food product
that helps to confiscate malnutrition.

13. New Fisheries Policy in Chhattisgarh
• Fishery leases of tanks, irrigation reservoirs and ponds
up to 200 ha. of water area to be given for 5 years at a time.
• 10 percent increase in preliminary lease amount in every
3rd year is to be made
• Tanks and Ponds having more than 1 ha. water area are to
be rented out to the registered fishermen's co - operative
societies
• Fisheries of 10 percent of tanks, irrigation reservoirs,
ponds are to be reserved for renting to the unemployed
youth who have been granted training by the department for
ten months.

14. Chhattisgarh possesses varied and vast natural water area
accessible for fish availability in the form of reservoirs,
river, tanks and ponds. In rivers, fishing is free for the
members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

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