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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD GROUND WATER INFORMATION BOOKLET BIDAR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA SOUTH WESTERN REGION BANGALORE JULY 2008 FOREWORD Ground water contributes to about eighty percent of the drinking water requirements in the rural areas, fifty percent of the urban water requirements and more than fifty percent of the irrigation requirements of the nation. Central Ground Water B oard has decided to bring out district level ground water information booklets highlighting the ground water scenario, its resource potential, quality aspects, recharge – discharge relationship, etc., for all the districts of the country. As part of this, Central Ground Water Board, South Western Region, Bangalore, is preparing such booklets for all the 27 districts of Karnataka state, of which six of the districts fall under farmers’ distress category. The Bidar district Ground Water Information Booklet ha s been prepared based on the information available and data collected from various state and central government organisations by several hydro-scientists of Central Ground Water Board with utmost care and dedication. Dr.J.Davithuraj, Assistant Hydrogeologi st, has prepared this booklet under the guidance of Dr.K.Md. Najeeb, Superintending Hydrogeologist, Central Ground Water Board, South Western Region, Bangalore. The figures were prepared by S/Sri. H.P.Jayaprakash, Scientist-C and K.Rajarajan, Assistant Hydrogeologist. The efforts of Report processing section in finalising and bringing out the report in this format are commendable. I take this opportunity to congratulate them for the diligent and careful compilation and observation in the form of this book let, which will certainly serve as a guiding document for further work and help the planners, administrators, hydrogeologists and engineers to plan the water resources management in a better way in the district. sd/- (T.M.HUNSE) Regional Director BIDAR DISTRICT AT A GLANCE Sl. ITEMS Statistics No 1. GENERAL INFORMATION i) Geographical area (Sq.km) 5417.65 ii) Administrative Divisions (As on 2005-06) a) Number of Tahsil / Blocks 05 b) Number of panchayat/Village 175/621 iii) Population (As on 2001Census) 15,02,373 iv) Average Annual Rainfall (mm) 827 2. GEOMORPHOLOGY Major physiographic units Northern low lands and southern highland (Bidar platue) Major Drainages The Manjara and the Karanja rivers 3. LAND USE (Sq.km) a) Forest area 277.07 b) Net area sown 3543.05 c) Cultivable area 193.82 4. MAJOR SOIL TYPES Black soils and Lateritic soils 5. IRRIGATION BY DIFFERENT SOURCES (Areas in sq km) Dug wells 239.89 Tubewells /Borewells 134.62 Tanks/Ponds 8.50 Canals 6.19 Other sources 10.45 Net Irrigated area 400.30 6. NUMBER OF GROUND WATER MONITORING WELLS OF CGWB (As on 31.03.2007) No of Dugwells 45 No of Piezometers 19 7. PREDOMINANT GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS Deccan trap 8. HYDROGEOLOGY Fractured basalt and weathered vesicular basalt Major water bearing formation Basalt Pre-monsoon Depth to water level during-2006 2.81 to 17.90 m bgl Post-monsoon Depth to water level during-2006 0.40 to 13.09 mbgl Long term water level trend in 10 years (1997- Pre-monsoon 0.0 to 0.69 falling 2006) in m/year 0.01 to 0.85 Rising Post -monsoon 0.09 to 0.86 falling 0.0 to 0.937 Rising 9. GROUND WATER EXPLORATION BY CGWB (As on 31.3.2007) No of wells drilled (EW, OW, PZ, SH, Total) EW-30 OW-13 Depth range (m) 45 to 235 Discharge (litres per second) Negligible to 6 Transmissivity (m 2 /day) 3.23 to 40.31 10. GROUND WATER QUALITY Presence of chemical constituents more the Ranges permissible limit Electrical Conductivity (micro mohs/cm at 25 º c) 165-1140 Fluoride (F in ppm) 0.02-1.6 Nitrate (No 3 in ppm) 02-120 Chloride (Cl in ppm) 14-187 Type of water Alkaline 11. DYNAMIC GROUND WATER RESOURCES (2004) IN MCM Annual Replenishable Ground water Resources 427.19 Net Annual Ground Water Draft 32.40 Projected Demand for Domestic and industrial 230.08 uses upto 2025 Stage of Ground Water Development (%) 56.68 12. AWARENESS AND TRANING ACTIVITY Mass Awareness Programmes organised Nil Date Place No of participants 13. EFFORTS OF ARITIFICIAL RECHARGE & RAINWATER HARVESTING Projects completed by CGWB (No & amount Nil spent) Projects under technical guidance of CGWB Nil (Numbers) 14. GROUND WATER CONTROL AND REGULATRION Area of OE Taluk 21% of Bidar taluk, 9% of Basvakalyan taluk and 7% of Bhalki taluk Area of Critical Taluk 5% of Bhalki taluk No of Blocks notified Nil 15. MAJOR GROUND WATER PROBLEMS AND Water scarcity in some areas ISSUES BIDAR DISTRICT 1.0 INTRODUCTION The Bidar district is the northern most part of the Karnataka state with geographical area of 5460 sq.km. It lies between 17°35’ and 18°29’ North latitude and 76°41’ to 77°39’ East longitude. It is bounded by Nizamabad and Medak districts of Andhra Pradesh state on the eastern side, Latur and Osmanabad districts of Maharastra state on the western side, Nanded district of Maharastra state on the northern side and Gulbarga district on southern side. 1.1 ACCESSIBILITY The Hydrabad-Parli Vaijanath, broad gauge railway section of the South Central Railway passes through Bidar and Bhalki taluks of this district. The National Highway No-9 connecting Hydrabad with Puna and Bombay passes through Humanabad and Bidar taluks of the district. The district is served by a good network of roads, which connects Bidar district with other important towns of the district of state and neighbouring state. Metal roads have connected all the important villages and all the parts of area are easily approachable. 1.2 ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS The Bidar district is constituted by five talukas i.e. Aurad, Basavakalyan, Bhalki, Bidar and Humnabad with Bidar being the head quarters of the district. The Taluka wise statistics are given in Table– 1 and administrative map is presented in Fig-1. Table-1: Talukwise Area, Village & Population S. Taluk Area No. of villages Population (as per No. (sq. km) Inhabited Uninhabited 2001 census) 1 Aurad 1227.2 151 01 245739 2 Basavakalyan 1202.97 112 03 299910 3 Bhalki 1117.2 130 03 257042 4 Bidar 925.19 124 10 405540 5 Humnabad 987.56 82 05 294587 Total 5460.12 599 22 1502373 1.3 DRAINAGE: Major parts of the district is covered by Godavari basin, drained by its two major tributaries the Manjara and the Karanja rivers. The Manjara river is perennial river flows over a distance of 155 km in the central parts of the district and flows eastern direction with a meandering course. The Karanja river flows in northern-western direction for 74km with karanja reservoir being major water source. The river Mullamari takes its origin near Matala village of Basavakalyan taluk flows from west to east length of 38 sq.km and then flows into Gulbarga district and joins the river Kagna. The Kagna river is one of the main tributary of Bhima river. Besides, there are several streams, which are of ephemeral in nature. The drainage pattern in the district varies from sub-dendritic to dendritic and some streams have a sub parallel drainage to the main river. The drainage map of the district is presented in Fig-2. 1.4 IRRIGATION PRACTICES In the district the irrigation takes place from surface water and ground water. The surface water irrigation is through canals, tanks and from medium and minor irrigation projects. Major irrigation dam has been constructed across the Karanja river and medium irrigation dam constructed across Chukkenala and Mullamari rivers. From ground water the irrigation is through dug wells, dug cum bore wells and bore wells. Taluk wise irrigated area from different sources is shown in Table – 2. Table-2: Area Irrigated by different sources in each Taluk of Bidar district. S. Taluk Canals Tanks Dug Bore Lift Other Total No. wells wells irrigation source 1 Aurad 0 2.88 9.45 11.18 0.06 6.03 29.60 2 Basavakalyan 0.50 1.54 55.62 22.80 0 1.39 81.85 3 Bhalki 5.34 1.08 43.12 5.80 0.26 0.57 56.17 4 Bidar 0 2.55 61.17 51.23 0.33 2.46 117.74 5 Humnabad 0.35 0.45 70.53 43.61 0 0 114.94 Total 6.19 8.50 239.89 134.62 0.65 10.45 400.30 1.5 LAND USE The district has 5460.12sqkm of total geographical area out of which 277.07sqkm are forest, which is 5.07% of the total area of district. Land not available for cultivation in the district is 688.40sqkm and uncultivable land is 440.66 sq.km. Actual agriculture land is 8789sqkm out of that 851.4sqkm area is cultivated more than once the Tahsil wise details of land use in given in Table-3. Table: 3. Taluk wise land utilisation in Bidar district (in sq.km) Taluk Area Forest Land not Un- Fallow Net area sown (sq.km) available cultiva Land for ble Net Sown cultivation land Sown > once Total Aurad 1227.2 23.11 81.85 78.28 185.99 870.1 190.7 1060.8 Basavakalyan 1202.97 71.43 180.84 95.58 163.16 754.8 162.6 917.4 Bhalki 1117.2 25.84 82.39 139.38 38.28 832.5 301.4 1133.9 Bidar 925.19 46.5 114.79 34.00 251.73 521.5 89.8 611.3 Humnabad 987.56 110.14 228.53 93.42 106.38 564.1 107.0 671.1 Total 5460.12 277.07 688.40 440.66 745.54 3543.1 851.4 4394.5 1.6 CROPPING PATTERN The main occupation of the people in the district is agriculture and related operations.