Lok Sabha Question No. 92 (STARRED), answered on 2017-12-21
Subject: Watershed Development Component of PMKSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SRINIVAS KESINENI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA M]NISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

## LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION NO. 92 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12,2417

Watershed  Development Component  of PMKSY

## *92.  SHRI KESINENI NANI:

Wilt the Minister  of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Batch Vll of the lntegrated Watershed Management  Programme (IWMP) now rechristened as Watershed  Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) which should have ideally been initiated during the year 2015-16, has still not been implemented;
- (b) if so, the details  thereof and the reasons therefor:
- (c) the total area and the number of villages covered by the existing projects under the said programme, State-wise; and
- (d) the details  of the progress  of the Neeranchal Project and the districts  which have been selected initially  under the project and the nature of projects  already  initiated as on date?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (sHRr NARENDRA STNGH TOMAR)

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## statement referred  to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok sabha Starred  Question No. 92 for answer  on 21-12-ZO1l

Government  of lndia through the Department  of Land Resources sanction  ed  g214 watershed development  projects in 28 States (except  Goa) orrinf in" period 2009-10 (Batch  l) to 2014-15 (Batch  Vt) covering an area or about 39.07 million hectare under the erstwhile lntegrated  watershed  Minagement  Programm"  tlwrrapl  principally  for development of rainfed portions  of net cultivited  area and culturabb wastelands.  Statewise details of the year-wise  / batch-wise projects  sanctioned  and the area covered by the projects is given at Annexure 1.

ln 2015-16 the lwMP was amalgamated  as the watershed Development  component (WDC) of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee  Yojana (pMKSy).-Und.,  the WDCPMKSY no further watershed develo\_pment pioject has been sanction.d  from 2015-16 onwards' There is. accordingly no 'Batch  Vll' -of watershed develofment projects.  At present  the principal  'emphasis is on qualitative  and timely imftementation  and completion  of the ongoing  watershed development projects. ' '

with the adoption of (i) optimal utilization of available  resources,  (ii) convergence  and (iii) prioritization,  as well as (i) accountab.ility  and (ii) real{ime  moniioring,  administrative gports of completion  of 1131 projects have oeen received  tro, ii States "tt"r din Aprtl 2017. state-wise  status of comptetion  of wDC-pMKsi  proiects  is given  at Annexure 2.

Neeranchal  National watershed Management Project (Neeranchat),  sanctioned  in 2015-16, ls meant.to provide support to Woc - PMKSY  thiough tecrrn[ar  assistance  to improve incremental  conservation  outcomes and agriculturat-yietos  ioi "o.runities in selected sites and adoption of more effectivJ processes  and technologies in participating  state-s.  The Project has four broad components namety (i) Central lnstitutiona! and !aq39itv Building, (ii) National  lnnovation  Support,  (iii) Support to WDC-PMKSY  in P-articipating  StaGs.and  (iv) Project Managembi,t "no Coordination. National  lnstitute of Hydrology (NlH) has- bebn englgeo ", ai lmplementing  partner  for providing  a Decis-ion Support  System for HydrJlog]y  ano developing thJcapacity  of ground level staff for its implementation.

The Project is under implementation,  with focused  effort, on 1g selected  districts  in  g States of Andhra Pradesh,  Chhattisgarh,  Gujarat, Jharkhand,  n/rOny"  pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan,  and Telangana.  Details of the 1g districts is at Annexure 3.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Starred euestion No. 92 for answer  on 21.12.2017

## State-wise status of completion  of WDC-PMKSy  proiects

| Sl. No.   |                | No. of projects*   | No. of projects*   | No. of projects*   |
|-----------|----------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Sl. No.   | State          | 2009-10 / Batch I  | 2010-11 I Batch ll | Total              |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh | 62                 |                    | 62                 |
| 2         | Gujarat        | 134                |                    | 134                |
| 3         | Karnataka      | 119                | 23                 | 142                |
| 4         | Madhya Pradesh | 1'15               |                    | 115                |
| 5         | Maharashtra    | 239                |                    | 239                |
| 6         | Meghalaya      | 17                 | I                  | 26                 |
| 7         | Mizoram        | 16                 |                    | 16                 |
| I         | Nagaland       | 22                 | 19                 | 41                 |
| 9         | Odisha         | 65                 |                    | 65                 |
| 10        | Rajasthan      | 119                | 62                 | 181                |
| 11        | Tamil Nadu     | 50                 | 50                 | 100                |
| 12        | Tripura        | 't0                |                    | 10                 |
|           | Total          | 968                | 163                | 1131               |

## Annexure referred to in reply to parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 92 for answer  on 21.12.2017

## Details of districts  for implementation  of Neeranchal  NationalWatershed Management Project

| Sl. No.   | State          | Districts                                          |
|-----------|----------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh | Anantpur and Chittoor                              |
| 2         | Chhattisgarh   | Jashpurand Kanker                                  |
| 3         | Gujarat        | Kuchchh and pre-divided district of Surendranagar  |
| 4         | Jharkhand      | Ranchi and Dhanbad                                 |
| 5         | Madhya Pradesh | Jabalpur and Devas                                 |
| 6         | Maharashtra    | Ahmednagar and Amravati                            |
| 7         | Odisha         | Mayurbhanj and Kandhamal                           |
| 8         | Rajasthan      | Jodhpur and Udaipur                                |
| I         | Telangana      | Pre-divided districts of Nalgonda and Mahboobnagar |