This report is available on following web site 1) Water Resources Department, Government of Maharashtra www.mahawrd.org This report and data is also available on following web site 1) Maharashtra Water Resources Development Centre, Aurangabad www.mwrdc.org REPORT ON BENCHMARKING OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN MAHARASHTRA STATE 2008-09 * * * * * * * * WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA, INDIA MARCH 2010 FOREWORD Water is an important and valuable natural resources. It is said that water is life. On these terms it has become important to plan and co ordinate the available resource. The distribution of water resources is not even anywhere on this earth, so it is uneven in our Maharashtra State. With the development of Industries, the water availability for the crop production is becoming lesser every year. It has become necessary to utilize water in a very stringent manner. In Maharashtra there are 71Major, 243 Medium and 2940 Minor projects fully or partially completed up to June 2008. In compliance to commitment in State Water Policy about transparency in water use and to identify the areas of problems in seeking objective set in the project planning, benchmarking of irrigation system in the State is in practice since last 6 years. Benchmarking is a systematic process for securing continual improvement through comparison with relevant and achievable internal or external norms & standards. To achieve this every indicator is compared with last five years average, year (2007-08) & (2008-09). This enables to compare the performance with predecessors as well as own performance of the last year. Use of benchmarking has conferred success in elevating the performance level of irrigation projects. Increase in potential utilization from 1.708 Mha to 2.732 Mha and revenue recovery from Rs. 252 crores to 673 crores is significant achievement of Water Resources Department during last five years. More improvement in project performance can be attained if results of benchmarking are systematically utilized for framing and implementing the project wise action plan. Looking to this aspect from this year one new chapter on benchmarking of individual projects with 3 important parameters is added in the report. In near future, there will be a shift of irrigation Water Management from Water Resources Department to Water Users Associations. Naturally, benchmarking of WUA will be also helpful for performance evaluation and creating awareness amongst water management staff and office bearers of WUA's. Lastly, I appeal all project authorities to use benchmarking as an effective management tool to improve the current performance level of the irrigation projects. I appreciate efforts taken by Shri R.B. Shukla, Chief Engineer, MWRDC, Aurangabad and his team for preparation of this report. I also appreciate the co-operation extended by The Director General, WALMI, Aurangabad for getting this report printed at Aurangabad. Comments & suggestions on this report will be appreciated. M.S. Mundhe Secretary (CAD) i Maharashtra Water Resources Development Centre, Aurangabad Team associated with Benchmarking Report Name Designation Shri V.B.Lalsare Executive Engineer Shri M .S. Badarkhe Executive Engineer Smt. S. A. Sulakhe Assistant Engineer (Grade-I) Smt. R. S. Patil Assistant Engineer (Grade-I) Shri G. G. Solapure Sub Divisional Engineer Shri O. B. Bhoyar Sub Divisional Engineer Shri. S. G. Deshpande Sub Divisional Officer Shri S. D. Joshi Sub Divisional Engineer Shri. B. A. Chivate Assistant Engineer (Grade –II) Shri G. S. Deshpande Sectional Engineer Shri S. M. Bhosle Sectional Engineer Shri K. K. Barbind Sectional Engineer Shri P. R. Bahalaskar Sectional Engineer Shri V.K. Nimbalkar Dafter Karkoon Shri S.M. Kedare Dafter Karkoon Shri A.B. Naybal Dafter Karkoon Sow A.B. Wakpanjar Dafter Karkoon Shri R. R. Kulkarni Typist Shri L. R. Jadhav Typist Smt. M. S. Tupe Typist ii ABBREVIATIONS Avg Per Average performance BCM Billion Cubic Metre CAD Command Area Development CBIP Central Board of Irrigation & Power CCA Culturable Command Area CRT Converted Regular Temporary DIRD Directorate of Irrigation Research & Development FAO Food & Agriculture Organisation FY Avg Five years average GCA Gross Command Area GOI Government of India GOM Government of Maharashtra TS Two Seasonals ha Hectare HW Hot weather ICID International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage IMD Indian Meteorological Department INCID Indian National Committee on Irrigation & Drainage IPTRID International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage IWMI International Water Management Institute m Metre M cum/ Mm3 Million Cubic metre Mha Million Hectare MKVDC Maharashtra Krishna Valley Development Corporation MWSIP Maharashtra Water Sector Improvement programme MMISF ACT Maharashtra Management of Irrigation System by farmers Act 2005. Mm Millimeter MWIC Maharashtra Water & Irrigation Commission MWRDC Maharashtra Water Resources Development Centre NLBC Neera Left Bank Canal NRBC Neera Right Bank Canal O & M Operation & Maintenance Past Max Maximum value observed in Past Past Min Minimum value observed in Past PIM Participatory Irrigation Management PIP Preliminary Irrigation Programme PLBC Paithan Left Bank Canal PRBC Paithan Right Bank Canal PWD Public Works Department Sq km Square Kilometre iii State Tar State target WALMI Water and Land Management Institute, Aurangabad WRD Water Resources Department WUA Water Users’ Association ISP Irrigation system performance AIC Akola Akola Irrigation Circle, Akola AIC Aurangabad Aurangabad Irrigation Circle, Aurangabad. BIPC Buldhana Buldhana Irrigation Project Circle, Buldhana CADA A’bad Command Area Development Authority, Aurangabad CADA Beed Command Area Development Authority, Beed CIPC Chandrapur Chandrapur Irrigation Project Circle, Chandrapur JIPC Jalgaon Jalgaon Irrigation Project circle, Jalgaon KIC Ratnagiri Konkan Irrigation Circle, Ratnagiri NIC Nagpur Nagpur Irrigation Circle, Nagpur NIC Nanded Nanded Irrigation Circle, Nanded NIPC Dhule Nashik Irrigation Project Circle, Dhule NKIPC Thane North Konkan Irrigation Project Circle, Thane PIC Pune Pune Irrigation Circle, Pune SIC Sangli Sangli Irrigation Circle, Sangli TIC Thane Thane Irrigation Circle, Thane UWPC Amravati Upper Wardha Project Circle, Amravati YIC Yeotmal Yeotmal Irrigation Circle, Yeotmal iv C O N T E N T S Page No. Sr. Description No. From To 1 Executive Summary 1 6 2 Chapter – 1 : Introduction 7 18 3 Chapter – 2 : Benchmarking of Irrigation Projects 19 22 4 Chapter – 3 : Performance Indicators 23 28 5 Chapter – 4 : Overall status of Benchmarking Projects in 29 34 Maharashtra Major Projects : Indicators I to XII 35 73 Medium Projects : Indicators I to XII (Except indicator IX, X) 75 109 Minor Projects : Indicators I to XII (Except indicator IX, X, XI, 111 138 XII_NI) 6 Chapter –5 : Actions taken for improvement of performance 139 139 7 Chapter – 6: Benchmarking of Water Users’ Associations 140 163 8 Chapter – 7: Project wise review of Major and Medium Projects 164 212 9 Chapter –8: Benchmarking of WALMI 213 227 10 Appendices Appendix I – Abstract of guide lines issued by GOM for Benchmarking of Irrigation Projects 229 229 Appendix II – State target values for indicators. 230 232 Appendix III – Overview of projects selected for Benchmarking. 233 247 Appendix IV – River Basins and Agro Climatic Zones of Maharashtra. 249 253 Appendix V – Abstract of Water rates for irrigation, domestic and industrial use. 254 255 v Executive Summary The methodology and main performance Indicators for Benchmarking are adopted as per the guidelines issued by Indian National Committee on Irrigation & Drainage (INCID) in 2002. The year wise indicators selected for benchmarking since 2001-02 along with their Domain are enlisted below:- Year Domain Performance Indicator 1. System Performance i) Annual irrigation water supply per unit 2001-02 irrigated area 2. Agricultural Productivity i) Output per unit irrigated area, ii) Output per unit irrigation supply 3. Financial Aspects i) Cost Recovery Ratio ii) Total O&M cost per unit area iii) Revenue per unit volume of water supplied iv) Maintenance cost to revenue ratio v) Mandays for O&M per unit area vi) Total O&M cost per unit volume of water supplied 4. Environmental Aspects i) Land damage index 2002-03 1. Deleted Indicator Maintenance Cost to Revenue Ratio 2.Additional Indicators 1. Potential Created and Utilised Equity Performance 2003-04 Additional Indicator Assessment Recovery Ratio a. Irrigation b. Non-irrigation 2004-05 No Change 2006-07 1 Deleted Mandays per unit area 2007-08 No Change 2008-09 System performance New indicator 1 a, Annual Area irrigated per unit of water supplied is added Initially, the exercise was conducted for 84 projects in 2001-02 with 10 indicators. The number of projects increased to 254 in 2002-03 with 11 indicators. Instead of presenting the data of all these projects individually, an irrigation circle was considered as a unit for evaluation of performance. Here also, it was observed that some of the characteristics of projects under a circle are not identical and to make the comparison still on better grounds, from the year 2003-04, projects under a circle in a sub basin are grouped together and comparison is made with other projects in a particular plan group. In carrying out the Benchmarking exercise, following categorization of irrigation schemes into similar types have been done for comparison. 1 a) Type of control for Fixed proportional division, manual control, Supply of water automatic