Government of India 
Monitoring & Appraisal of Water Resource Projects
Monitoring Directorate, Gandhinagar is entrusted with monitoring works of various projects including centrally funded/assisted projects in Gujarat. The projects are funded under various Central/State sector schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY) - Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP), PMKSY- Command Area Development & Water Management Programme (CADWM), Repair, Renovation & Restoration (RRR) of MI schemes/ water bodies, Extension, Renovation and Modernization (ERM), Farmers Participatory Action Research Programme (FPARP) etc.
PMKSY - Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme
Irrigation is a State subject and irrigation projects are formulated, executed and funded by the State Governments themselves from their resources. Since the irrigation projects are capital intensive and State with limited resources at their disposal find themselves unable to meet the desired fund demands of all the projects, the implementation of these projects gets delayed.
Keeping the above in view, Central Govt. during 1996-97, launched an Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) to provide Central Loan Assistance (CLA) to major/medium irrigation projects in the country, with the objective to accelerate the implementation of those projects which were beyond resource capability of the States or were in an advanced stage of completion. Since December-2006, Central Assistance is in the form of a grant.
The Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme is being implemented under the overall charge of DoWR, RD & GR with the Central Water Commission (CWC) having been assigned the responsibility to comprehensively monitor the projects receiving CA under AIBP. At present, two Monitoring visits per project are required to be done in a year by the field office of CWC.
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) was launched during the year 2015-16, with an aim to enhance physical access of water on farm and expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency, introduce sustainable water conservation practices, etc.
PMKSY is an umbrella scheme, consisting of two major components being implemented under Ministry of Jal-Shakti, namely, Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP), and Har Khet Ko Pani (HKKP). HKKP, in turn, consists of four sub-components, being (i) Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM), (ii) Surface Minor Irrigation (SMI), (iii) Repair, Renovation and Restoration (RRR) of Water Bodies, and (iv) Ground Water (GW) Development Component.
PMKSY was valid till March, 2021. Its extension for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26 has been approved by Government of India, with an overall outlay of ₹ 93,068.56 crore (central assistance of ₹ 37,454 crore, debt servicing to NABARD for ₹ 20,434.56 crore and an outlay for ₹ 35,180 crore by the State Governments towards State Share).
AIBP in Gujarat
Completed Projects
- Gujarat is availing Central Assistance under AIBP since 1996-97. Total 15 projects in Gujarat are benefited from this programme. Out of 15 projects, the following 14 have been already completed.
1. Damanganga 2. Karjan 3. Sukhi
4. Watrak 5. Sipu 6. Mukteshwar
7. Deo 8. Jhuj 9. Umaria
10. Harnav – II 11. Brahmani –II 12. Ozat –II
13. Aji-IV 14. Bhadar-II
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Central Loan Assistance Received (1996-97 to 2004-05) ₹ Crore |
Central Assistance Received (2008-09 to 2013-14) ₹ Crore |
Irrigation Potential Created (1996-97 to 2013-14) (Hectare) |
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76.672 |
12.79 |
187876 |
Ongoing Project:
Currently, there is one (1) ongoing project under PMKSY-AIBP in Gujarat namely Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project (SSP). It is a major multipurpose project envisaging the construction of a concrete gravity dam across the river Narmada near village Navagam, two powerhouses and a very vast canal system spread in two States of Gujarat and Rajasthan. It envisages the generation of 1450 MW of power and annual irrigation of 17.92 Lakh Ha in Gujarat. The project would meet the drinking water needs of 9490 villages and 173 urban centres in Gujarat around the irrigation canal. The original estimated approved cost of the Sardar Sarovar Project was ₹ 6406 Cr at the 1986-87 price level. This was revised as ₹ 39240.45 Cr at the 2008-09 price level. The latest approved estimated cost of the project is ₹ 54,772.94 Cr at price level 2014-15 out of which, the cost of the AIBP component is ₹ 31522.33 Cr. Now, the revised estimated cost of AIBP component is ₹ 33412.501Cr.
A brief of latest status of Sardar Sarovar Project is as follows:
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Project Features |
Concrete gravity dam with Gross Storage Capacity of 9497.95 MCM, Two power houses (1450 MW), Narmada Main Canal (NMC) (458.412 km before entering Rajasthan and 74 km in Rajasthan). In Gujarat, it has 38 branch canals and their distributaries, minors and sub-minors aggregating a network of length about 70,000 km. |
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Proposed date of completion |
AIBP: March, 2025 |
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Overall Physical Progress- AIBP as on 30.11.2023 |
95.42 % Head Works – 100 %, Main Canal – 100 %, Branch Canal – 99.98 %, Distributaries – 96.58%, Minors – 93.54 %, |
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Irrigation Development |
UIP – 17.92 lakh hectare, IPC – 17.21 lakh hectare upto Nov-2023. IPU -11.01 lakh hectare reported in hydrological year 2021-22. 13.29 lakh ha is utilized during 2022-23 (April-2022 to Mar-2023). |
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Financial Progress (Nov-23) |
94.56 % Rs. 31594.454 Cr. / Rs.33,412.501 Cr. |
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Assistance since 2016 Central State |
Rs. 4,501.5104 Cr.(Released) / 4,797.511 Cr.(sanctioned) Rs. 5288.9326 Cr |
So far, 43 monitoring reports have been issued by the Monitoring Directorate. The last Monitoring visit of CWC officers for the year 2023-24 was on 20th-22nd Dec-2023
Flood Management Programme
Flood Management Programme (FMP) is setup to provide central assistance to the flood prone states to take up flood control and river management works.
Under FMP, critical flood control and river management works in the entire country were covered. These works included river management, flood control, anti-erosion, drainage development, anti-sea erosion, flood proofing works besides flood prone area development programme in critical regions. It also included restoration of damaged flood control/management works.
Two projects were completed in Gujarat under FMP, one is Coastal Protection / Sea Wall from Sangam Narayan Ghat to Gayatri Mandir at Dwarka, Tal. Dwarka, Dist Jamnagar (Gujarat) and other is Anti-Sea Erosion works in Villages Dabhari, Neaskaranj & Dandi in Dist. Surat (Gujarat) Arabian Sea Beach.At present, no further FMP projects are there for monitoring / central assistance in the monitoring directorate.
PMKSY - Repair, Renovation & Restoration of Water Bodies
This was a State-sector scheme in the pattern of AIBP of Ministry of Water Resources to be implemented during the remaining period of X FYP. Objective of the scheme was to restore and augment the storage capacities of water bodies and to recover and extend their lost irrigation potential. 42 MI projects (water bodies) were approved in two district Projects of Gujarat namely Sabarkantha and Banaskantha.
Farmers Participatory Action Research Programme (FPARP)
The objective of the programme was to demonstrate to the farmers in a participative approach adoption of new technologies to improve agricultural practices. One of the Universities selected was the Anand Agricultural University entrusted with demonstration in six districts viz Anand, Ahmedabad, Kheda, Vadodara, Panch mahal and Dahod. The technologies demonstrated include:
(a) SRI (System of Rice Intensification) in Paddy
(b) Tied ridges
(c) Land Configuration
(d) Inter-cropping
(e) Irrigation at critical growth stages
(f) Drip Irrigation
Overall 170 demonstrations in all activities were made by Anand Agricultural University with 59 in Kharif-2011 and 111 in Rabi-2011-12.