mumbai chief minister eknath shinde on wednesday directed officials to chart a plan for the revival of jalyukta shivar abhiyan jsa shinde said that priority must be given to works of removing silt from rivers and streams shinde held a meeting with the soil and water conservation department officials the jalyukta shivar abhiyan was launched by the erstwhile bjpled government under then cm devendra fadnavis the scheme which was one of fadnaviss pet projects was stopped after the maha vikas aghadi formed government in the state officials said that in the relaunched version the jsa 20 will now include around 5000 new villages works related to water conservation which include deepening and widening of water bodies construction of small check dams and construction of farm ponds will take place officials saidwater availability planning and irrigation facilities are important issues therefore more watershed development works should be undertaken this creates locally assured and large area irrigation potential it has been found that the jalyukta shivar abhiyan has also benefited people greatly plans should be made to speed up this campaign the department should plan to spend the available financial provision on time and for quality works for this coordination should be done with our field systems engineers etc cm shinde said at the meeting on this occasion matters such as speedy administrative approval of the proposals submitted by the department expediting the recruitment process of vacant posts for strengthening the department were also discussed