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State to replicate MP water model
The Telangana irrigation department had decided to replicate a Madhya Pradesh model of “Tail-to-Head” water distribution on experimental basis.
Hyderabad: The Telangana irrigation department had decided to replicate a Madhya Pradesh model of “Tail-to-Head” water distribution on experimental basis.
Under this system, two months ahead of every irrigation season, the department would be mobilised to desilt and clean all main canals while water user associations clean sub-minors and field channels.
System managers were ordered to operate all canals at full-supply level so that water reached tail-ends. Breaches, when they occurred, were quickly repaired. Department staff was in the field to manage strict canal rotations announced earlier and enforce tail-end-first irrigation protocol. This is opposite of what happens under ‘lazy’ management when head-end farmers grab all the water first, leaving nothing for tail-end farmers.
The Madhya Pradesh model had been rolled out following identification of some key issues.
They are: supply of water as inequitable between the farmers at head and tail end, as well as canal water distribution between small and big farmers. Secondly, water supply remained unreliable due to poor management.
Third, poor and irregular maintenance of the canal system on account of shortage of funds and “Even if the maintenance works were done they were not completed on time and only urgent works needed had been carried out on priority basis.”
All this had ended up in that state having a poor and untimely maintained canal system and the water charges collected from the users remained very low and the irrigation department could not meet demands to execute works. Most of the allocations made for repair maintenance had been spent on overhead charges resulting in very little scope to take up even minor repair works for years.
Taking the Madhya Pradesh success story into account the TS irrigation department wanted to experiment with the model.
Because, the State has embarked upon completing the pending and coming up with new irrigation projects to realise its optimum irrigation potential providing water to all irrigable lands in the State.
