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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a framework that can serve as a backdrop to help integrate both sectors in policy discussions and optimise their contributions to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the global context in which irrigation takes place is changing rapidly. A call for healthier and more sustainable food systems is placing new demands on how irrigation is developed and managed. Farm ponds and small tanks constructed at a appropriate locations capture and store surface and sub surface flow of rain water for future use. Funding through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) provides for creation of productive assets at village level, beside wage employment to the local people for their livelihood. The fisheries sector contributes to the national income, exports, food and nutritional security and employment generation. As per the estimates of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), of the Government of India, the value of GDP from fisheries sector at current prices during 2011–2012 was Rs 65 541 crores, which is 4.47 per cent of the total GDP of agriculture and allied sectors. Fish contributes substantially to the domestic food security of India which has a per capita consumption of more than 6.00 kg per annum. The fisheries sector provides employment to more than seven million people and has proved to be one of the major contributors to foreign exchange earnings of the country. Small scale aquaculture plays an important role in rural poverty elevation. The study was carried out based on existing research and secondary data. Here, we aim to tell a success story of such small-scale aquaculture from a rural area in Tamilnadu of India on Farm Ponds were excavated under the MGNREGA and Fish Culture is encouraged under RKVY.