Guidelines for Medium, Major and Multipurpose Irrigation Projects
Published on by Yogesh Agrawal, Director (retired), Minor irrigation schemes, Water Resources Department at Govt of Rajasthan
The Water Resources Department, Government of Rajasthan, in year 2002 approved the "Guidelines for Minor Irrigation Projects" prepared and finalized by a committee under my chairmanship. The guidelines contain 47 pages and the topics dealt with are as below
1. Feasibility Report of Chainpura Minor Irrigation Project 2. Hydrology 3. Data Required for Design of Minor Irrigation Projects 4. Preparation of Cost Estimates 5. Soil Properties and their influence on design of dams 6. Design of small earth dams 7. Design of Spillway 8. Design of canal 9. Design and Construction of Water Courses
These Guidelines are available at the web site of WATER RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN http://waterresources.rajasthan.gov.in/ as M.I.P. Guidelines at http://waterresources.rajasthan.gov.in/6guidelines_index.asp . Anybody can approach the website and use the guidelines.
Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India and Central Water Commission may like to prepare and make available on their web sites; "Guidelines for preparation of Medium, major and Multipurpose irrigation Projects" to enable the field engineers to prepare the Draft Project Reports accordingly and get the Draft project reports accepted by the Government at the earliest. As if now, the position is that Draft Project Reports, in some cases, are not approved even after more than ten years of their submission. Going one step further the suggested guidelines may contain a solved example of a Project Report approved by the Government of India and Central Water Commission. This will be a great help to the engineers who initiate the preparation of Draft project Report. This will help the MOWR, GOI and CWC to approve the DPR at a very fast rate, as it will have minimum mistakes.
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MR. Agrawal. How are you? Please join our afford in posting daily a HOT news from India as a discussion. Your inputs will be highly appreciated..
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Thanks for your comment. There are so many things which needs improvements. I am expressing my comments time to time. But there should be effect of comments expressed by someone on TallyFox. I suggest the views expressed here should be forwarded to the concerned organizations and also to the policy making international organizations like ICID, CBIP India and the water resources departments of the governments for their consideration. Or Tally Fox may adopt a a way so that the comments expressed may be useful to the world community.
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Dear Mr Agrawal, You have raised very important point specially to speedup the process of approval and bring commonality in the process of report preparation. Common guidelines from CWC and transparent system at state level should help in overcome this problem. I have another concern and would like to know from members - if a site is identified by the community/local people and pre-feasibility report is prepared with the help of professionals (not from govt but independent agency or individual) to indicate the potential for construction. Where such report to be submitted, how this work will help in feasibility study to government departments.
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Hi Subhash, Thanks for your comments. My common sense says you talk to the the departmental officers responsible for preparation of feasibility report in your project area. He mat suggest where you should submit your work. Alternatively you submit it to the concerned collector, who will send it to the concerned office.
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Good Discussion
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hy good morning any one can send me the detail or NIT which is floated by dept for consultancy work
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Hi Shiv, Greetings from Jaipur. The web link mentioned by you is giving error 404 - File or directory not found. I have read the guidelines issued by the CWC from time to time. They does not touch the design aspect. They only touch the estimating. I understand you have not gone through the attachment mentioned above. Please go through them. Also the CWC has not finalized the draft code for "design and construction of water courses " in more than ten years after its submission by me in WRD 13 as its member. In one meeting WRD 13 finalizes the draft, in next meeting it says amendments are necessary. It is working as a wooden horse. Similarly ten years back , I submitted basic amendments in IS 9451:1994 "Code of practice for lining of canals in expansive soils (second revision). But CWC, CSMRS and BIS did not did anything to finalize the amendments.This code is basically incorrect, arbitrary and against the basic principles of soil mechanics, which was approved by CWC and BIS, thanks to their knowledge. This has not been banned by CWC and BIS, although they accept now in December 2014 meeting of WRD 13 that this code is incorrect basically. It shows how the CWC is working and self praising. It seems CWC neither working satisfactorily nor it is willing to improve itself.
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Guidelines for DPR are at CWC website http://www.cwc.nic.in/main/webpages/Guide lines_&_Guide books_publications.html However in most of cases (in my personal viewpoint) the hurdles are Environmental issues, interstate issues, lack of investigation and Conceptual Planning.