Kshipra Sub Basin - Asian Development Bank

Support to the National Water Mission NAPCC
Appendix 3 Kshipra Sub Basin
A. Introduction
IV. WATER SECTOR COMMUNITIES AND STAKEHOLDERS
55. Inclusive growth paradigm has made it almost mandatory to have stakeholders‘ participation in
the design, implementation of public policy and decisions about the delivery of services (Martin, 2005)
and also as peer monitoring group. Stakeholders are those who have an interest in a particular
decision, either as individuals or representatives of a group. People who influence or can influence a
decision as well as those affected by it can be considered as stakeholders. Community of
stakeholders can become active with some specific goal. Without going into the definitional debate on
‗community‘ across disciplines we can use it here to describe a group who shares identity on some
specific respect and shares (any one or all) belief, resources, concerns, needs etc. The size of a
community can vary.
56. A commonly shared vision by all stakeholders to have a successful intervention be it policy,
technology or systemic. For the current assignment, specific goal around which we are trying to
identify a community is ―to examine intervention requirements, scope and strategies to improve the
efficiency of water systems and how improved efficiency may be applied to climate change
adaptation‖.
57. To identify water sector stakeholders from climate change point of view within the scope of this
assignment we consider the community associated with the issue at hand. It covers part of the human
society whose employment/livelihood/income/productivity stream will be directly impacted in future -
become riskier/decline- with change in stock and/or flow of water. The stakeholders who are active
with this goal are both national and state government across various departments, knowledge
generators engaged in technological and social innovation, farmers, NGOs. In the context of this
study stakeholders/community are broadly: water source owners, water flow service providers and
water stock and flow users.
58. Water source ownership in the state is represented by multiple categories of stakeholders not
fully coordinated and rules on human interventions on the natural water system if not governed by fully
defined rules.
o Primary sources of water flow are natural 6 (rainfall) defining the overall constraint on primary
water supply. In climate change context adaptation challenge is if the community has
knowledge and preparedness to take actions now so that the individuals, households and
community becomes resilient to uncertain water supply condition in future without affecting
wellbeing (in micro sense we consider current and future income stream of farmers and in
macro sense productivity in agriculture to make state domestic product resilient).
o Secondary sources are various institutional sources based on surface water flow: Interstate
high level body (e.g ., Gandhisagar dam) in control of surface water flow with 10% share for
MP, WRD department owned canal system, Agriculture department owned micro and medium
irrigation systems and famers withdrawing water from open access ground water aquifers with
variety of pumping technology and farm pond based water harvesting systems.
59. Stakeholder can be categorised into water providers and water users as shown in Figure 33.
6 nature do not play an active role as stakeholder for our decision making purpose
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