Kshipra Sub Basin - Asian Development Bank

Support to the National Water Mission NAPCC
Appendix 3 Kshipra Sub Basin
o There is demand from farmers to de-silt the sasakiya Talabs (government owned public ponds
that are very large in size with available infrastructure) that can enhance water retention
capacity and meet irrigation water demand of the command area.
o Need for government regulation on ground water extraction was supported by all in PRA
meetings. Household response for regulation and control vary district wise. While in Dewas
83% households feel there is need for regulation and control over ground water for long term
sustainability responses are low in Ujjain and Indore (58% and 11% respectively). However,
less support is found for electricity charges to control water withdrawal. The farmers are
unhappy with current electricity charge collection system based on horse power of machines.
5. Response to Regulation and Control
66. The responses to various possible interventions on regulation and control are summarised in
Table 24.
Table 24: Farmer Response to Possible Initiatives
Strongly Strongly
Mixed No
Agree
Disagree Agree Disagree Feeling Opinion
D I U D I U D I U D I U D I U D I U
For long term sustainability some type of regulations
(control and restrictions) on groundwater is required
Government to introduce charges for power used for
67 37 0 0 5 0 17 16 11 0 37 56 0 5 33 17 0 0
tubewell water to control use and reduce demand
Government to provide more subsidy for tank and micro
0 11 0 8 0 0 8 5 0 25 63 89 33 11 0 25 0 11
irrigation
Government to take on greater control and regulation of
17 37 67 0 0 0 75 53 33 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
groundwater use.
Greater Government controls to be introduced in tandem
with programmes to support greater water use
17 26 0 0 0 0 67 5 0 8 42 89 0 16 0 8 0 11
efficiencies and higher return cropping systems 58 53 22 0 0 0 33 5 67 0 21 0 8 5 11 0 0 0
Government to restrict the number of wells 8 11 0 0 0 0 42 5 0 33 58 ## 17 16 0 0 11 0
Farmers and Community associations to take on
greater control of surface and groundwater management 25 16 0 0 0 0 58 32 56 8 32 33 0 16 11 8 5 0
Community associations could take on responsibilities
to control and mange groundwater abstractions
Government to change the price guarantees subsidies
8 0 0 0 0 0 83 32 78 0 32 0 8 32 22 0 0 0
to promote non rice crops
Note D-Dewas, I-Indore and U-Ujjain
50 32 ## 0 0 0 33 11 0 8 21 0 0 16 0 0 0 0
67. Farmers‘ strongly believe they can contribute towards ground water recharge through farm
ponds. But there is no scientific monitoring of this. Over the years community has taken leadership to
innovate farm ponds to get private access to secure water supply. This has now become a practice
and been mainstreamed in policy action. There exist 70-80% government subsidy for balaram talab
(farm ponds) which can be created in 10% of the farmer‘s own land. Madhyapradesh model of
government support for scaling up community efforts is a good method to deliver adaptive action.
Deamnd for more subsidy is observable from household responses (100% in Indore, 89% and 92% in
Ujjain and Dewas). Jalabhishek, jal sangbad published regularly in Ujjain all are examples of is
community participation in water management.
68. In promotion of drip and sprinkler irrigation in horticulture is also example of participatory
management system. With government providing subsidy to the tune of 30-40% (higher for SC/ST
categories ) show cost sharing for promotion of water use efficiency.
69. While 100% of households in Dewas and Ujjain favour better surface water management as
desirable strategy, in Indore it is for artificial ground water recharge and managing pollution in rivers
are the most favoured strategies.
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