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Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in Line with National Water Policy - 2012 with Regard to Climate Change A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change Review by India Water Partnership (IWP) www.cwp-india.org With support of Institute For Resource Management and Economic Development (IRMED) A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change 1 2 A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change Contents Executive summary 01 Chapter-1: Introduction 1.1 Background and rationale 06 1.2 Objective 07 1.3 Methodology 07 1.4 Selection of study state 07 1.5 Sources and types of information collected 08 Chapter-2: Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy 2.1 Interactions with state level officers 09 2.2 Status assessment in two districts of Gujarat 11 2.3 State level stakeholders workshop 11 2.4 Perceptions and views of the workshop participants 13 Chapter-3: Conclusion and Recommendations 3.1 Backdrop 14 3.2 Study recommendations 14 3.3 Outcome 15 Annexures Annexure A: List of participants: Gujarat State Level Workshop 18 Annexure B: Interactions held with dignitaries and senior officers of Gujarat 19 Annexure C: Proceedings of the State Level workshop 20 Annexure D: State Level Schedule 22 Annexure E: Schedule canvassed at the district, block and Panchayat Level 23 Annexure F: Guide points for discussion with the villagers 24 A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change 3 4 A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I. Context The National Water Policy (NWP), 2012 with regard to climate change sion (CWC), Shri R. K. Jain, Chief En- 2012 approved by the National Wa- with the support of Institute for Re- gineer (CWC), Shri Ashish Banerjee, ter Resources Council was adopted source Management and Economic Director (NWP), Shri Atul Jain, Direc- by the Government of India during Development (IRMED). tor (CWC), Shri A. K. Srivastava, Sec- India Water Week-2013. With re- retary (CWC), Shri Avinash C Tyagi, gard to climate change, the NWP II. Criteria for selection Secretary General, International Com- (2012) had laid special emphasis on of states mission on Irrigation and Drainage preparedness at the micro level. Ac- (ICID), Shri V. U. Koundanya, Executive cording to it “special emphasis should As a first step, the IRMED reviewed Director, WAPCOS Ltd., Dr. Suresh A be given towards mitigation at micro water policies of all the States/Union Kulkarni, Secretary, Maharashtra, State level by enhancing the capabilities of Territories (UTs), which are in either Water Resources Regulatory Author- community to adopt climate resilient draft or final stage. The review re- ity, Shri. Mendi Giri, Director General, technological options” (Para 4.1). vealed that there are only 14 States/ Water and Land Management Insti- UTs which have announced their wa- tute, Aurangabad, Shri Arvind Kumar Measures dealing with adverse ef- ter policies starting from 1994, while 2 and Shri Jai Kishore, Superintending fects of climate change will have bet- UTs namely; Daman & Diu and Dadra Engineers, Monitoring Division of the ter chance of success if people and & Nagar Haveli have adopted National Water Resources Department of the functionaries at the grassroots level Water Policy-2012. The remaining Government of Bihar, Shri I. C. Thakur are also aware of them and are as- States/UTs are in the process of formu- of Water and Land Management Insti- sociated with the preparatory mea- lating their water policies, while some tute, Patna, and others. sures to mitigate them especially in of the States/UTs are in the process of rural areas, which are dependent on revising their earlier policies. Discussions with these officials re- agriculture and allied activities. While vealed that various states are at dif- there is a growing literature on dimen- For selection of two states, the IRMED ferent stages with respect to formula- sions of climate change, and it’s prob- and IWP study team had detailed dis- tion or revision of their state water able effects in different parts of the cussions with senior officials of Gov- policy. Hence, it was decided to se- world including India, there is virtually ernment of India, as well as the State lect only those states where formula- no literature on perceptions of grass- Government officials and officials of tion of state water policy is presently roots level functionaries as well as the other departments/agencies. These under consideration but may take a public, with respect to adverse effects officials included: Shri A.B. Pandya, few more months before being final- of climate change on their livelihood Chairman, Central Water Commis- ized so that there was a scope of as well as the preparatory measures that can be taken at the local level for • Only 14 States have announced their State Water Policy starting mitigation of these effects. from 1994. As per the NWP (2012), the State • 2 Union Territories namely; Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Water Policies are required to be have adopted National Water Policy-2012. aligned with it. Keeping this in view, • Remaining States are in the process of revising their State Water India Water Partnership, as part of its Policy. Work Plan 2014, reviewed the State • Himachal Pradesh is the only State to bring out a revised water Water Policy of two States namely; policy in 2013 by including climate change aspects in line with National Water Policy-2012. Bihar & Gujarat in line with NWP- A Report on Review of Draft Gujarat State Water Policy in line with National Water Policy - 2012 with regard to Climate Change 1 incorporating the study team’s sug- sionals, NGOs, women and others. officers that a draft of Gujarat State gestions in the state water policy. A questionnaire was also filled-in by Water Policy was prepared in 2011 Two other considerations were also the workshop participants giving their by the department. However, it re- taken into account. First, the states perception, views and suggestions on mained as a draft within the depart- selected were major states and not issues related to state water policy. ment as it could not make any head- minor ones like Goa, Manipur, Na- The study team processed these sug- way. galand etc. Second, in the context of gestions and thereafter sent it to the Salient features of the above draft climate change, one of the selected respective state government for pos- were presented in the meeting and states was drought prone while an- sible incorporation in its respective considerable discussion took place. other was flood prone for a rep- state water policy. The Project Director, IWP study resentative picture of the country The detailed report on the review of pointed that the draft of the water to emerge. After examining the Draft State Water Policy of Gujarat policy was not in line with the Na- criteria and need, it was decided undertaken by India Water Partner- tional Water Policy-2012. Its struc- to select Gujarat and Bihar as the ship is given below: ture was entirely different due to two states for the current study. which comparison was not easy. Moreover, there was no reference to III. Methodology IV. Review of Draft State Water Policy of Gujarat issues related to climate change. The The methodology adopted three Project Director made several sug- types of approaches to collect the a. Interaction at state level gestions for improvement. Thereaf- ter it was agreed that as per the Na- requisite information for the review. Firstly, the team conducted a desk tional Water Policy-2012, a separate At the outset, considerable discus- review related to the Draft Gujarat section on climate change would be sion took place between the study Water Policy. Thereafter, in consulta- added. Other aspects pointed out by team and state level senior officers tion with the Department of Water representatives of other departments of water resources and allied depart- Resources, Government of Gujarat, included the need for review of the ments, who are the main stakehold- the Project Director, IWP made the norms for water requirement for cat- ers. This was done in groups as well first visit to the state from 6-8 Au- tle, analysis of local experiments on as individually. The purpose at this gust 2014. An interactive session was water augmentation, diverse impact stage was not only to get feedback held with senior officers (mostly of of climate change in various regions, of state level officers on issues relat- the rank of Chief Engineer or above) use of solar energy to deal with im- ed to state water policy, but also to of the Water Resources and allied pact of climate change, etc. motivate them to assume a proactive Departments at Gandhi Nagar, Gu- role in preparing a draft of the state jarat on 6 August 2014. After giving It was further agreed that the State policy. This was followed by enquiries a brief introduction about GWP and Water Resources Department would at the district level and down below in IWP, the Project Director, IWP study prepare a fresh draft of Gujarat State a purposively selected districts of the discussed about the study to review Water Policy in the light of points state. The stakeholders included dis- state water policy of Gujarat in line made during the interactive session. trict and block level functionaries and with the National Water Policy- The timeline for this was to be de- other actors like villagers, people’s 2012.
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