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Ministry of Water Resources (under Bharat Nirman Program) had
initiated nationwide pilot scheme "National Project for Repair, Renovation and
Restoration (NPRRR) of Water Bodies directly linked to Agriculture" covering
about 1000 water bodies linked to agriculture in 24 districts and 14 states,
for renovating these irrigation tanks to augment their storage capacities and
to recover their lost irrigation potential. Monitoring of 732 tanks spread in 9
districts in 6 states (namely, Mahabub Nagar & Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh;
Kabir Dham in Chattisgarh; Mandi in Hiachal Pradesh; Kupwara in Jammu &
Kashmir; Gulbarga, Bangalore Rural in Karnataka and Ganjam & Gajapati in
Orissa) to assess the impact of this scheme in terms of improvement in
irrigation potential utilized during 2004-07 using satellite data is in
progress. The study aims at inventory of water spread area of identified
irrigation tanks, delineation of irrigation jurisdiction of these tanks,
inventory of season-wise crop area and cropping pattern under each tank command
area for two seasons of two years - before (2004-05) and after (2007-08) NPRRR
scheme. Finally, the study will focus on characterization of irrigation
utilization pattern for each tank command area. The project activity is in
progress and scheduled to be completed by March 2009.
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