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CHAPTER-8
Participatory Irrigation Management
Introduction
The concept of Participatory
Irrigation Management (PIM) has
been recognized all over the world
as a tool for improving irrigation
management along with
sustainability of the system.
Irrigation systems need to be
restructured to make water
management efficient. However
increasing demand of water in all
sectors including irrigation made it
imperative that the efficiency of
the Irrigation Water Management
must be increased. National Water
Policy and State Water Policy, lay
emphasis on participatory
irrigation management to be
adopted as an essential strategy
for improving the performance of
all the irrigation projects and
therefore farmers should be
involved progressively from the
grass root level particularly in
water distribution & canal
maintenance. Thus the
Government has planned to involve
farmers-users in a more systematic
way, at least, at the tertiary level
of the canal systems for alleviation
of the management problems.
Objectives
• To promote and secure
equitable distribution of water
among its users, adequate
maintenance of irrigation
system efficient and economical
utilization of water to optimize
agricultural production.
• To protect the environment and
to ensure ecological balance
inculcating sense of ownership
of the irrigation system in
accordance with the water
budget and the operational
plan.
• To Bridge the gap between
potential created and potential
utilized.
• For Prompt attention to
problems and resolutions of
disputes.
• For Collective involvement in
better application &
management of agricultural
extension services.
PIM in Odisha
Participatory IrrigationManagement
that was introduced in the state
during 1995 on a pilot basis under
Odisha Water Resources
Consolidation Project (OWRCP)
under the banner of farmers
organization and turn over (FOT).
Experiencing its success at large, it
was extended to all the commands
of Major, Medium, Minor and Lift
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Irrigation Projects. Subsequently,
during the year 2000, the water
users association have been
renamed as Pani Panchayats. From
its inception, till date a lot of
efforts have been given for wide
acceptance of the programme.
During this period massive
awareness campaign, capacity
building through training,
workshops, interactive workshops
had been conducted at regular
interval for the farmers, office
bearers of Pani Panchayats and
officials of concerned departments.
Legal Framework-Act & Rules.
To strengthening of Pani Panchayat
programme it was felt that there
should be a legal backing to the
existence of the Pani Panchayts. In
this regard the Odisha Pani
Panchayat Act-2002 came into
force with effect from 15.11.2002
& the Odisha Pani Panchayt Rule-
2003 came into force with effect
from 23.04.2003. Later, necessary
amendment of the Pani Panchayat
Act has been made in the year of
2006,2008 & 2014 and necessary
algorithm has been made in 2013
for better clarification of Act & Rule
of PP.
Structure
Pani Panchayats are farmers’
organizations formed byinvolving
the farmers owning land within
thehydraulically delineated blocks
of 300 Ha. to 600 Ha. in
thecommand area of Major &
Medium Irrigation project.
ThesePani Panchayats
arerepresented by themembers of
various chaks.
A. Farmers Organization is three
tier for Medium & Minor Irrigation
Projects and four-tier for Major
Irrigation Projects, as indicated
below:
i. WUA/ Pani Panchayats at
primary level consisting of
several chak committees.
ii. Distributary Committee at
secondary level (Major
Projects) is a federation of all
WUA/Pani Panchayats under
the distributary.
iii. A Project Committee, at project
level, is a federation of all
distributary committees for
major projects. Similarly for
Medium Irrigation projects it is
a federation of all WUA/ Pani
Panchayats
B. In Lift Irrigation Projects it is a
single tier system i.e. Pani
Panchayat.
Above all, there will be a Stat Level
Committee to lay down policies for
implementation of Pani Panchayat
programme as per the provision of
the Odisha Pani panchayat Act,
2002.
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Medium
PC
P.P
Minor
PC
P.PP.P
L.IMajor
PC
P.P
D.C
C.C C.C C.C
STATE LEVEL COMMITTEE
C.C. : Chak Committee / P.P.: Pani Panchayat / D.C: Distributary Committee
P.C.: Project Committee
PANI PANCHAYAT WUAs structure
Physical Progress
(Formation & Election):
Initially Pani Panchayats were
formed and registered under the
societies Registration Act, 1860.
Now Pani Panchayats are being
formed by conducting election as
per Odisha Pani Panchayat Act,
2002 with amendment Act 2008 &
2014 and Odisha Pani Panchayat
Rules, 2003. Tenure of Pani
Panchayat from three years to six
years has been increased with
effect from 20.01.2009 as per Pani
Panchayat (Amendment ) Act-
2008. By end of March, 2018
election of 27908 Nos Pani
Panchayat have been completed as
per PP Act 2002& PP Rules 2003.
But election of 8954 PPs have been
completed as per PP amendment
Act, 2008 & 2014 under Major,
Medium, Minor & Lift Irrigation
Projects. The details are given
below:
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Table-8.1
Status as on 31.03.2018
Sector Programmed Election held as
per PP Act 2002
& PP Rules 2003
Handed over
under PP Act
2002 & PP Rules
2003
Election held as
per PP
Amendment Act
2008 & 2014
Handed over
under PP
Amendment Act
2008 & 2014
Balance election
to be conducted
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Nos Area (lakh Ha)
Major &
Medium
2641
1168307
2448
1067015
1863
786302
1569
704967
1489
670709
1072
463340
Minor 3056 403707 1883 325831 1883 325831 1963 250546 1963 250546 1093 153161
Lift 24438 536085 23577 519150 24303 532897 5422 108800 5422 108800 19016 427285
Total 30135 2108099 27908 1911996 28049 1645030 8954 1064313 8874 1030055 21181 1043786
Functions:
The functions of Pani Panchayats
have been defined in the Orissa Pani
Panchayat Act-2002 and The Orissa
Pani Panchayat Rules-2003 & PP
amendment Act 2008 & 2014. Some
of the important functions are given
below:
● To prepare cropping programme
considering the soil and agro
climatic condition with due regards
to crop diversification.
● To prepare a plan for the
maintenance of irrigation systemin
the area of its operation at the
end of each crop season and
carryout the maintenance work
with the funds of the Pani
Panchayats from time to time.
● To promote efficient use of water
allotted.
● To resolve the disputes, if any,
between the members and water
users in its area of operation and to
raise resources.
●To assist the Revenue and Disaster
Management Department in the
preparation of demand and
collection of water rates except L.I
projects where the farmers collect
water tax among themselves.
● To regulate the use of
wateramong the farmers at each
outletunder the area of its
operation
according to the
warabandischedule of the system.
CAD - PIM DIRECTORATE
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To provide necessary support to
operationalize the PIM concept in
the state, a new Directorate of
Command Area Development and
Participatory Irrigation management
(CAD & PIM) has been established
during 2007-08 under Department
of Water Resources. This
Directorate will make concentrated
effort to scale up the CAD & PIM
activities to all completed and
ongoing projects in the state wide
effectively. This Directorate have
three units namely O&M unit to look
after O&M work, CAD (Engg) unit to
look after CAD activities and PPSU
(Pani Panchayt support unit) to look
after the PP formation and
elections, IEC activity, on farm
management, agriculture &
livelihood improvement and
capacity building of PPs including
their functioning in all completed
and ongoing projects under DoWR
in entire state as per following;
1.Construction of Pani
Panchayats Building:
The Government has issued instructions
to provide assistance for construction of
office building for Pani Panchayats
by using the grant given by Govt @
3.00Lakh and if more required it
may be met out of M.P & M.L.A. LAD
fund with the following criteria.
i) The operation and maintenance
of Minor & Sub – minors are
taken over by Pani Panchayats.
ii) The membership should be
at least 75 % of the total
number of beneficiaries.
iii) The collection of water rate
for the previous 3 years should
be at least75% of the demand.
iv) The assistance for each PP
office building will be limited
toRs.3,00,000/- (Rupees three
lakh) only, which will be credited
to the Bank account of the Pani
Panchayat as a grant-in-aid.
v) The cost of construction of office
building may be met out of M.L.A.
LAD fund or any other grant
that the Government may decide
from time to time.
vi)The Pani Panchayats concerned
shall Provide land for the building
free of cost or bear the cost of
the land. They are alsofree to
make such other contribution to
the building in cash or in kind as
they may decide.
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Vii)In respect of the building to be
constructed out of MLA LAD
assistance, the work can be
executed by Pani Panchayat or as
per the MLA LAD Scheme
guidelines issued by Government
in P&C Department from time to
time and subject to such other
conditions as would be prescribed
by Water Resources Department.
In this regard, Planning & Co-
ordination Department has
amended ‘Rules and Procedures
for sanction of MLA LAD funds
to make construction of Pani
Panchayat buildings as admissible
project.
Altogether 515Pani Panchayat
have been awarded with office
building grant till end of 2015-
16. Due to enforcement of Model
Code of Conduct of PR election
in 2016 - 17 PP fortnight could
notbe observed. Similarly due to
Bi - election during 2017 - 18
State level PP fortnight could
not be observed and no PP has
beenawarded as best PP.
2. Capacity Building
a.Training & Workshop
Training Programme for capacity
building of P.P office bearers and
officers have been conducted by
WALMI for skill development on
different management activity like:
PP office management, Record
keeping, Conflict Resolution,
Operation & maintenance, Water
Managementand crop Diversification
, effect of Climatic change Gender
issues etc;
b. Training-cum-Exposure visit
Training -cum- Exposure visit for
office bearers & farmers to outside
state have been organized through
ADB assistance to collect the first
hand information & best practices
adopted by farmers of outside states
on different aspects like Water /
Irrigation Management, crop
Management, Input-Output
Marketing , Conflict Resolution,
Record keeping etc;
C. Empowerment of Pani Panchayat
Pani Panchayat empowerment
activities have been implemented
through OIIAWMIP, ADB assisted
Project & RKVY through PPSU.
Further Gender mainstreaming
activities have been undertaken in
the ADB assisted OIIAWMIP project .
d.Training programme on Climate Change
Training programme on Climate
Change have been organized
through RKVY , PPSU for creating
awareness of Pani Panchayat.
3. Mass awareness through
Information Education &
Communication (IEC)
activities
In order to operationalise
different concepts / themes with a
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view to create mass awareness
&consciousness regarding
departmental activities of DoWR
among the general public, Pani
Panchayat & farming community
of Odisha. Forwide publicity of
Programme and policies of
Government different activities
such as Street Play, Message
through Krushaka Bandhu
Arnnapurna, Organization of
Essay Competition,
Advertisement through Mass
media, broadcasting of PP
activities through All India Radio
& Door Darshan, Publication in
PP Samachar, news letter,
Appreciation letter of CM. &
Brouchers have been performed
through different units /
organizations in the year of
2017-18.
4. Celebration of PP Fortnight
Every year Pani Panchayat Fortnight
is celebrated throughout the state
during 16th to 30th January to
popularize Participatory Irrigation
Management among the farming
community in the state .Best
performing Pani Panchayats, best
irrigation projects under Major &
Medium , Minor & OLIC & award to
best Students for Essay Competition
are felicitated by Hon’ble Chief
Minister of Odisha on the closing day
of the fortnight celebration. During
the year 2017-18 , celebration of
Pani Panchayat fortnight could not
be undertaken due to enforcement
of model code of conduct for Bijepur
bi-election.
MONITORING
For effective implementation of PIM,
the programme is monitored
regularly at different levels.
i. The State Government have
constituted a committee of High
Level Working Group on PIM under
the Chairmanship of Chief
Secretary, Odisha.
ii. The Agriculture Production
Commissioner and Principal
Secretary, Department of Water
Resources are monitoring the
progress of Pani Panchayat at
State Level.
iii.The Chief Engineer & Basin
Managers are making necessary
review of PIM activities at project
level.
iv.The district Collectors are
monitoring the PIM of the district
under their. Jurisdiction in District
Level Advisory Committee
Meeting in every two months
interval. In addition, day to day
activities of the programme are
being monitored by Directorate of
CAD-PIM.
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STATUS OF of 2017-18
Farmers are being involved in PWT
(Participatory Walk Through) in
preparation of project report
including Micro plan, estimate
Preparation and implementation.
Accordingly under ADB assisted
OIIAWMIP Tranche -1 project, micro
plans of all 121 PPs of 3 Medium & 1
Major irrigation projects have been
completed.
a) Crop diversification& crop
intensification is gradually
increasing in the PP command
area.
b) Tenure of Pani Panchayat from
three years to six years has been
increased with effect from
20.01.2009 as per Pani
Panchayat (Amendment) Act-
2008. By end of March 2018,
27908 Pani Panchayat have
already been formed &
registered by conducting
election.
c) 13210 nos. of farmers belonging
to Pani Panchayats & 805 nos
officers have been provided
training through 180 training
programmes at WALMI.
d) 1057 nos of training
programmes were conducted
through RKVY in 287 Pani
Panchayats under Medium &
Minor Irrigation Projects in 8
districts.
e) Pani Panchayat empowerment
activities in 121 PPs through
OIIAWMIP under ADB & 287 PPs
through RKVY,PPSU have been
implemented .
f) Interactive training programme
on “Climate Change, Livelihood
Enhancement & Agriculture
Intensification” through Pani
Panchayat at campus & project
Site have been organized
through WALMI for raising
awareness of Pani Panchayat.
g) Steps have been taken for
implementation of Gender
mainstreaming activities under
Tranche-II OIIAWMIP as per
Gender Action Plan of ADB.
h) IEC activities have been takenup
to create mass awareness
&consciousness regarding
departmental activities of DoWR
among the general public, Pani
Panchayat & farming community
of Odisha.Details of which is
given below;
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Status of IEC activities 2017-18
Sl.No
IEC activity Physical Financial
Targete Achivement
Target Achivement
1. Street play 100 nos 100 nos 4,00,000 4,00,000
2 Message through krushaka Bandhu Annapurna 10 months 10 months
1,25,000 1,25,000
3 Organization of Essay competition on water quality & conservation, water quality at state & district level among school & college students.
31nos 31nos 9,16,500 9,16,500
4 Broadcasting of Pani Panchayat Katha through AIR. 16 nos 16 nos 5,74,374 5,74,374
5 Telecasting osucess stories and panel discussion through Door Darshan
24 nos 24 nos 11,60,908 11,60,908
6 P.P Samachar,News letters,Appreciation letter of C.M,Brchure, distribution cost including arrear of 2016-17
20,2450 nos 20,2450 nos
1514458 1514458
7 Advertisement & Public message in News paper & magazine including arrear of 2016-17
LS LS 3,08,760 3,08,760
Total 50,00,000 50,00,000
Conclusion
Pani panchayat can emerge as socio- economic institution to ameliorate the
rural poverty by providing a single window platform for all developmental
activities of irrigated agriculture and can subsequently permeate to other
developmental areas as its multiplier effects. It will help to preserve the rural
harmony in a holistic manner by checking the migration of labour from rural to
urban area thus will help strengthening the rural economy of the State.
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Interactive Training on PIM
Weeding by cono weeder
Interactive Training on PIM-Sunei Diversified Cropping -
Weeding by cono weeder-Taladanda
Sunei
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InteractiveTraining at Gandakula Machhagaon (1)
InteractiveTraining at Kanshbahal Dam site (2)
InteractiveTraining at Kaima Jaarka (3)InteractiveTraining at Ramial Dam site (4)
Interactive Training on Irrigation Management, PP Act & Rules, Crop water use and diversification, Gender issues with emphasis on Climate Change. (Photo 1, 2, 3, 4)