District Irrigation Plan, Nalbari.Pdf

DISTRICT IRRIGATION PLAN NALBARI, ASSAM 1 District Irrigation Plan For 5 YEARS 2016-2021 Nalbari, Assam 2 District Irrigation Plan, NALBARI Table of Contents Executive summary ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 General information of the District ........................................................................................................................... 18 Chapter 1 1.1 District Profile ........................................................................................................................................... 18 District Background ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Administrative Set-up of Nalbari .............................................................................................................................. 19 1.2 Demography .............................................................................................................................................. 19 1.3 Biomass and Livestock ............................................................................................................................ 20 1.4 Agro-Ecology, Climate, Hydrology and Topography ............................................................................ 21 1.5 Soil Profile ................................................................................................................................................. 22 1.6 Soil Erosion and Runoff Status ............................................................................................................... 23 1.7 Land use Pattern ...................................................................................................................................... 25 Chapter 2 2.1 Area Wise, Crop-Wise Irrigation Status .................................................................................................. 26 2.2 Production and Productivity of Major Crops ......................................................................................... 26 2.3 Irrigation Based Classification ................................................................................................................ 32 Chapter 3 3.1 Status of Water Availability ..................................................................................................................... 33 3.2 Status of Ground Water Availability ....................................................................................................... 33 3.3 Status of Command Area ......................................................................................................................... 34 3.4 Existing Type of Irrigation ....................................................................................................................... 35 Chapter 4 4.1 Domestic Water Demand ......................................................................................................................... 36 3 | P a g e District Irrigation Plan, NALBARI 4.2 Crop Water Requirement ......................................................................................................................... 36 4.3 Livestock Water Requirement ................................................................................................................. 37 4.4 Industrial Water Requirement .................................................................................................................. 39 4.5 Water Demand Power Generation ........................................................................................................... 39 4.6 Total Water Demand of the district for various sectors ........................................................................ 39 4.7 Water budget ............................................................................................................................................. 40 Chapter 5 5.1 Strategic Plan for irrigation in PMKSY ................................................................................................... 43 5.2 Department wise total Plan of the district ..................................................................................................... 43 5.3Component-wise Plan ...................................................................................................................................... 44 5.4 Block-wise Plan under PMKSY ................................................................................................................. 45 5.5 Suggestions ..................................................................................................................................................... 46 5.6 Expected Outcome .......................................................................................................................................... 47 Annexures .................................................................................................................................................................. 51 4 | P a g e District Irrigation Plan, NALBARI List of Tables Table 1.1:District Profile of Nalbari .......................................................................................................................... 19 Table 1.2: Demography of Nalbari ............................................................................................................................ 20 Table 1.3: Biomass and live stock of Nalbari .......................................................................................................... 20 Table 1.4: Agro Ecology, Climate, Hydrology and Topography of Nalbari ........................................................... 20 Table 1.5: Soil profile of Nalbari ............................................................................................................................... 20 Table 1.6: Soil Erosion & Runoffstatus of Nalbari………………………………………………………………………20 Table 1.7(a):Land use pattern in Nalbari District ..................................................................................................... 25 Table 1.7b): Land use pattern in Nalbari District ..................................................................................................... 25 Table 2.1(a): Area wise, crop wise irrigation status ................................................................................................ 26 Table 2.1(b): Area wise, crop wise irrigation status ................................................................................................ 26 Table 2.2: Production and Productivity of Major crops .......................................................................................... 33 Table 2.3: Irrigation Based Classification ................................................................................................................ 37 Table 3.1: Water availability in Nalbari ..................................................................................................................... 33 Table 3.2: Ground water availability in Nalbari……………………………………………………………………………33 Table 3.3: Status of command area .......................................................................................................................... 33 Table 3.4(a): Existing Type of Irrigation (Number) .................................................................................................. 40 Table 3.4(b): Existing Type of Irrigation (Command Area) ..................................................................................... 41 Table 4.1: Domestic Water Demand ......................................................................................................................... 33 Table 4.1: Domestic Water Demand ......................................................................................................................... 33 Table 4.3(a): Livestock water requirement............................................................................................................... 38 Table 4.3: Livestock water requirement ................................................................................................................... 38 Table 4.5 Water demand for power generation ....................................................................................................... 39 Table 4.7: Water Budget ............................................................................................................................................ 41 Table 5.4(a): Block wise Cost plan under PMKSY ................................................................................................... 45 Table 5.4(b): Block wise Command Area plan under PMKSY ................................................................................ 46 5 | P a g e District Irrigation Plan, NALBARI Executive summary In an agrarian economy like India, agriculture utilizes the major share of country‟s exploitable water resources. Though the sector utilizes the maximum share of exploitable water resources, availability of the same at different locations to different extent makes it vital to adopt effective utilization of water through storage, channelizing and judicial use. At some places like Punjab and Haryana, the environmental and socio-economic rationale for this capture by the sector is now being questioned. Accordingly, it is needed to challenge

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