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A participatory mission involving farmers and
elected water customers’ committees ensures water
to the final farm in parched Bundelkhand. Streaming dwell: Water customers’ committee members with irrigation division officers on the Rohini damMardan Lal, 60, a resident of Chauka village of Mehroni tehsil in Lalitpur district, Bundelkhand, was very anxious final 12 months when the rains failed once more. Chauka falls on the tail finish of the Chauka minor, a sub-canal originating from the principle trunk of the Rohini dam in Lalitpur. The dam has a capability of 12.1 million cubicmetres of water, however was solely 34 per cent full final 12 months.To remedy the issue, assistant engineer on the Rohini Canal System, Nafees Ahmed, took the assistance of the water customers’ committees related to the canal’s Chhaprauli, Tisagnan, Chauka and Gharauli minor sections. Hanumant Singh Tomar, president of the Chhaprauli water customers’ committee, says, “The committees talked to the farmers to ask them what time they wanted the water discharged from the Rohini dam so that it could be put to optimum use for the crop.” In November final 12 months, water was discharged to all of the 4 minors for 15 days alternately. The committee additionally made positive that water reached each farm even on the ends of the minors. The outcome: Mardan Lal’s three-acre farm produced 24 quintals of peas, incomes him over Rs 1 lakh.In 2016, the irrigation division had began a ‘participatory irrigation management system’ within the Rohini canal system as a pilot mission in Bundelkhand. Under this, eightmember water customers’ committees have been shaped in all of the minors related with the Rohini canal system. Ahmed says, “Voters in the catchment area of theminors elected the committee members in their respective areas in June 2016.” After 2018, irrigation administration within the minors was additionally handed over to the respective committees. B.Okay. Suhera, govt engineer of the irrigation division in Lalitpur, says, “The whole irrigation system within the minors is monitored by the committees. So misuse and unlawful diversion of water have additionally been minimised.