Soil and Water Conservation Department (Nagaland)

The Department of Soil & Water Conservation is an Agri & Allied Sector Department. It was bifurcated from the Department of Agriculture and duly established as a fully-fledged Department in 1968. The focus of Soil and Water Conservation Department is to tackle the aforementioned problems effectively through suitable soil and water conservation interventions in the catchments so as to protect and treat both the unaffected as well as affected lands and render the area productive and sustainable besides mitigating flood and riverbank erosion and reduction of sediment deposition downstream. It also envisages recharging of drinking water sources and hydro-power generation sources through catchment/watershed treatment approach.