Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

conservation. Similarly, analysis of project outcomes, if these have contributed to
sustainability, carried out separately for all three broad PAD sets namely, watershed
protection and development, institutional and social development and finally
economic and financial viability, revealed that institutional and social development
contributed handsomely towards sustainability, and interventions for improving
production potential also contributed quite reasonably but those for watershed
protection did so only in fair degree. Thus project as a whole could be rated good or
fairly strong or as likely sustainable.
Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Project
Project period 2004-2011, Project at a glance till 2008
A World Bank funded community based Integrated Watershed Project.
Project cost is about $89.35 million with State share of about 18.6% and beneficiary
contribution as 3.5%.
Commencement of Project since September, 2004 with a Project period of seven
years.
The Project area is 2348 sq. km. spread over 76 selected Micro watersheds in
middle Himalayas at an altitude of 700 mt. to 2000 mt.
The Project operates in 18 blocks of 11 districts of the State.
The Project aims to treat about 468 selected Gram Panchayats with Gram
Panchayat as planning, implementing and monitoring agency at the Panchayat level.
Project activities initiated in 467 GPs and at different phases of Project
implementation.
616 Farmers Interest Groups (FIGs) have been constituted.
466 Gram Panchayat Watershed Development Plans (GPWDPs) have been
finalized by March, 2009 and are under different stages of implementation.
Under farming system improvement, improved varieties of crops have been
demonstrated in 560 ha. under compact area demonstration and various varieties of
off-season vegetables were demonstrated in 378 ha of area.
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