Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

CHAPTER-8
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
The major activities of the watershed development project would be sequenced into
three phases
I. Preparatory Phase : The watershed development team (WDT) shall facilitate
in the formation of the local level institutions, Watershed Committees (WC),
Self Help Groups (SHG) and User Groups (UGs)
II. Watershed works Phase :
III. Consolidation and withdrawal Phase :
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
The principles of new common guidelines would be followed for implementation of
Integrated Watershed Management Projects. An appropriate institutional
arrangement would be made at various levels for effective decision making and
professional management of the projects.
State level Institutional arrangement- STATE LEVEL NODAL AGENCY:
Watershed Management Directorate in Uttarakhand has been declared as a
nodal department and State Level Nodal Agency (SLNA) has also been
constituted under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary by the State
Government to implement new Common Guidelines. The SLNA will be having
an independent bank account. Central assistance for SLNA will be transferred
directly to the account of SLNA. The SLNA will sign an MOU with the
Departmental Nodal Agency setting out mutual expectations with regard to
performance, timelines and financial parameters including conditions related to
release of funds to SLNA. The SLNA will be required to review the programme
and provide enabling mechanism to set up State Data Cell and ensure regular
reporting to the Central Government/ Nodal Agency at the central level in the
Department. There would be multidisciplinary professional support team at the
State level to implement the programme. The State Level Nodal Agency is
having a full-time CEO who is a serving Government officer and is also the Chief
Project Director, Watershed Management Directorate, Uttarakhand.
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