GUIDELINES....
Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects
in India -(Feb 2008)
These
new Guidelines for watershed development projects broadly
indicate a new framework for the next generation watershed
programme. It was asserted that these guidelines coupled
with the flexibilities inherent in them would provide a
helpful framework for the design, management and
implementation of all watershed development projects in the
country. The key features of this new unified approach can
be broadly outlined as follows:
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Delegating Powers to States
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Financial Assistance for Institutions
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Duration of the Programme
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Livelihood Orientation
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Cluster Approach
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Scientific Planning
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Capacity
Building
For
details
 National
Food Security Mission (NFSM) - Operational Guidelines
(2007)
The
National Food Security Mission (NFSM) launched recently as a
centrally sponsored scheme will be funded by the Central
Government. The objective is to increase production and
productivity of wheat, rice and pulses on a sustainable
basis so as to ensure food security of the country. The
approach is to bridge the yield gap in respect of these
crops through dissemination of improved technologies and
farm management practices. The Operational Guidelines
enumerate the Mission’s objectives, and outline the
strategy, programme interventions, administrative
arrangements, norms of assistance and monitoring and
evaluation procedures.
For
details ....
Hariyali Guidelines (2003)
To
involve village communities in the implementation of
watershed projects under all the area development
programmes namely, Integrated Wastelands Development
Programme (IWDP), Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP)
and Desert Development Programme (DDP), the Guidelines
for Watershed Development were adopted w.e.f.1.4.1995,
and subsequently revised in August 2001. To further
simplify procedures and involve the Panchayat Raj
Institutions (PRIs) more meaningfully in planning,
implementation and management of economic development
activities in rural areas, these new Guidelines called
Guidelines for Hariyali are being issued.
For
details ....
Hariyali
Guidelines - Issues and Concerns
Government of Andhra Pradesh and A P Rural Livelihoods
Project
facilitated the organization of series of
consultations on the guidelines of
Hariyali with NGOs, PRIs and CBO representatives. A
national
Consultation workshop was also organized in which
representative from
government, NGOs and resource organizations from
Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka & Gujarat have participated on 13th May
2003. On
the basis of these consultations and workshop the
following suggestions
and recommendations are made....
For
details ....
Process Guidelines
for Watershed Development Programme -
Andhra Pradesh - (2002)
These Operational Guidelines are intended to
strengthen the processes in implementation of
watershed development
projects and to provide clarity and purposefulness in
the implementation of watershed
development projects. In
order to ensure long term sustainability a judicious
mix of technical and managerial
aspects have been dealt. Focus on capacity building,
developing the concept of project
phases in project cycle, operational flexibility, need
for demystifying technology by
participatory approach, focus on enhancing livelihoods
strategies and convergence of
development activities at watershed level are some of
the key features of these guidelines.
Apart from the above key issues, these operational
guidelines intend to broaden the
framework of watershed program.....
For
details (English) ....
For details (Telugu)
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Watershed Guidelines - Ministry of Rural Development (1995)
The splendor and munificence of our natural resources
are legendary. However our Janmabhoomi, especially the
predominantly rainfed, drought prone and high
population density areas is today in distress. Tree
cover has been depleted, soil erosion and damage have
increased, water table has gone down, the severity of
drought had increased, and ecological degradation of
dry lands is greater than a few decades ago. The
position would have been worse but for the presence of
backward area development programmes, such as, the
Drought Prone Areas Programme, Desert Development
Programme and Integrated Waste Lands Development
Programme.
These guidelines are result of sincere and rigorous
effort to deal with these problems and the livelihood
of our countrymen living below the poverty line in
these poverty dominant areas.
For details ....
Guidelines - 1995 (Telugu)
For details ....
Guidelines
for Watershed Development -
Ministry of Rural Development ((Revised
2001)
The watershed approach has conventionally aimed at
treating degraded lands with the help of low cost and
locality accessed technologies such as in-situ soil
and moisture conservation measures, afforestation,
etc., and through a participatory approach that seeks
to secure dose involvement of the user communities.
For
full details ....
Guidelines for National Watershed Development Project
for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA)
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WARASA - Jan Sahbhagita
WARASA Jan Sahbhagita as the very name suggests
ensures that the Watershed Community remains at the
centre of the watershed development project who plan
and implement the project in their watersheds. The
role of official agencies is more that of facilitators
and coordinators. We believe that these new Guidelines
will help in making the National Watershed Development
Project for Rainfed Areas into a people’s movement and
the watershed slogan
"
Khet ki mitti khet mein, khet ka pani khet mein;
Gaon ki mitti gaon mein, gaon ka pani gaon mein."
.....a reality in the rainfed areas of the country.
For
full details ....
Guidelines
for Watershed Development
Programme - (CAPART)
Watershed Development projects have been taken up under
different programmes launched by the Government of
India. The Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP) and
the Desert Development Programme (DPP) adopted the
watershed approach in 1987.The Integrated Wasteland
Development Projects Scheme (IWDP) taken up by the
National Wasteland Development Board in 1989 also
aimed at developing wastelands on a watershed basis.
For
full details ....
Swarnajyanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana Guidelines
Despite efforts mad e over the past few decades, rural
poverty in India continues to be significant. While
the anti- poverty programmes have been strengthened in
successive years and while, in percentage terms,
poverty levels have reduced from 56.44% of India’s
population in 1973- 74 to 37.27% in 1993-94, the
number of rural poor has more or less remained static
and is estimated to be about 244 million persons. The
effect of such a large percentage of poor on the
country’s development is not difficult to appreciate.
Quite obviously, we need to redress the situation
quickly. It is in this context that the self-
employment programmes assume significance for, they
alone can provide income to the rural poor on a
sustainable basis.
For
full details ....
Watershed Development Fund
- Process Guidelines for NGOs
- NABARD
The objective of the fund is to spread the message of
participatory watershed development. The Fund will be
utilized to create the necessary framework conditions
to replicate and consolidate the isolated successful
initiatives under different programmes in the
government, semi-government and NGO sectors. Thereby,
all the actors involved -watershed community, Central
and State Government departments, banks, agricultural
research institutions, NGOs and NABARD can act in
concert to make a breakthrough in participatory
watershed development, WDF is proposed to be
operationlised in close co-ordination with the Central
and State Ministries as a continuum of their efforts
but with a distinct identity.
For
full details ....
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