1. Common Guidelines
for
Watershed Development Projects
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2. Rainfed Agriculture
• About 60% of net-sown area of India & 82% of the world is
rainfed.
• Rainfed area support 40% of population, 66% livestock and
contribute 40% to the food production.
• About 87% area of pulses and minor millets, 77% oil seeds,
66% cotton & 50% cereals are rain dependent.
• 100% of forest and grazing lands, 80% of apples, mangoes and
temperate fruits are un-irrigated.
• Seed spices, herbals, guar gum and other special attribute
crops are unique for the rainfed area.
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4. Rainfed Agriculture & Watershed
Management
• Rainfed agriculture is complex, diverse, under invested, risky,
vulnerable and distress prone.
• Due to climatic changes, frequency of extreme weather events
like droughts has increased during past 15 years.
• Watershed management is the best option for integrated
management of resources to alleviate poverty, hunger and
distress.
• Common Guidelines for convergence, coordination and
harmonization of development projects were necessary.
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5. Commonalities among the past guidelines.
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S. No Item MoA MoRD MoE&F
1 National level schemes/program NWDPRA
& other
DDP,
DPAP,
IWDP
NAP
2 Watershed approach Yes Yes Yes
3 Institutions i. PIA i. PIA i. JFMC
ii. WA/ WC ii. WA/ WC ii. FDA
4 Registration under Societies Act Yes Yes Yes (except
JFCM)*
5 All adult members constitute
General body of WA
Yes Yes Yes
6 Joint Operation of A/C Yes Yes Yes
7 Overhead/Administrative cost
in %age
10 10 10
8 Contributions or sharamdan Corpus fund WDF VDF
*JFMCs are registered with territorial or wildlife DFO.

6. What is New & Innovative ?
• The new guidelines have been built on the past 14 years of
experience of all the stakeholder Ministries.
• Internalises the new policies, economic reforms, programmes,
schemes and paradigms.
• Role of the Panchayati Raj Institutions has been addressed
adequately.
• Foreclosure of the projects introduced.
• Emphasizes, convergence, integration of natural resource
management, productivity, livelihood and income. Farming
system, micro-enterprising, unique activities for landless,
assestless, small and marginal farmers.
• Allocation of funds to states, districts and selection of projects
made objective.
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7. Key Features
• Delegating powers to the States for sanctioning and
implementation of projects.
• Dedicated institutions of multi-disciplinary
professionals at national, state and district level.
• Strengthening of institutions at national, state and
district level to ensure professionalism.
• Project duration has been made flexible into 3
distinct phases to expand the scope.
• Livelihoods have been focused through integrated
farming systems.
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8. • Clustering of small watershed in the range of 1000-5000
ha areas to optimize transaction cost.
• Scientific planning and capacity building for innovative
new paradigms.
• Multi tier Ridge to valley implementation with inter
departmental coordination and net working emphasized.
In many cases Forest Department has to play major role.
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9. Guiding Principles
• Equity and gender inclusiveness.
• Centrality of community and stakeholders
participation.
• Transparency through operating of joint accounts.
• Facilitating agencies for social mobilisation,
community organisation proposed.
• Role of VO has been defined.
• Capacity building for new technological inputs.
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning.
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10. Organization of development is process based
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National Level
NRM,
Income &
employment
generation
District Level
State LevelLocal Level

11. Institutional Arrangements at National Level
• Role of NRAA has been defined.
• Institutional arrangements at the Ministerial level and
their roles are illustrated.
• Responsibilities for approving projects transferred to
the States.
• Matters related with policies, perspective planning,
allocation of budget, monitoring & evaluation
strengthened.
• Direct remittance of funds to dedicated accounts.
• A National Data Centre and portal provided.
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12. Institutional Arrangements at State Level
• A dedicated mechanism of State Level Nodal Agency
(SLNA) is proposed wherever necessary.
• SLNA will be chaired by the Development
Commissioner/Addl. Chief Secretary/Agricultural
Production Commissioner/Principal Secretary of the
concerned Department or equivalent rank.
• SLNA will be represented by all concerned
Departments of the State, one representative from the
Central Nodal Ministry, NRAA, VO and professional
experts.
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13. Major Functions of SLNA
• The main function of the SLNA will be to prepare
perspective and strategic plans.
• Approve PIA, projects and evaluators etc.
• Sanction projects according to perspective and
strategic plans.
• Provide support to District Watershed Development
Unit (DWDU).
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14. Institutional Arrangements at District level
• If the project area is more than 25,000 ha, a dedicated
District Watershed Development Unit (DWDU) will
be set up.
• If the area is less than 25000 ha the existing
arrangements will be followed.
• DWDU will coordinate with District Planning
Committee for convergence.
• DWDU will have multi-disciplinary professionals.
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15. Major Functions of DWDU
• Identify potential PIA & recommend to SLNA.
• Prepare strategic plans for watershed development
projects.
• Provide professional/ technical support to PIA and
many other functions.
• Facilitate coordination with relevant programmes/
schemes and many other functions.
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16. Institutional Arrangements at Project Level
• The project implementing agency will be selected on the basis
of definite criteria.
• The implementing agency will constitute a multi- disciplinary
professional Watershed Development Team (WDT).
• Watershed Committee with elected/ nominated Chairman by
Gramsabha.
• Self-Help Group amongst poor, landless, small and marginal
farmers.
• User group around activities.
• A joint account will be operated by Secretary of Watershed
Committee and WDT nominee as a measure of transparency.
• The project will be implemented in 3 distinct phases.
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17. Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions
• The District Planning Committee will provide governance
support to the programme.
• The District Panchayat/ Zila Parishad and Intermediary
Panchayats will have important role in matters relating to co-
ordination, review of progress, settling disputes and fore-
closing of the projects.
• The gram sabha will enable democratic process.
• The gram sabha will supervise Watershed Committee,
authenticate accounts/ expenditure, facilitate convergence,
maintain assets register and allocate usufructs.
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Allocation of Funds
• Nodal Ministry/Department Will allocate budgetary
outlay for projects among the States based on past
performance, State’s perspective Plan, percentage of
rainfed area & wastelands/ degraded lands.
• SLNA will distribute funds to districts based on
perspective Plan, and percentage of rainfed area &
wasteland/degraded lands/Panchayat lands.
• States will sanction their Projects within the state
allocation.
• Nodal Ministry will release funds for on going and newly
sanctioned project to the states.

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Budget componentBudget component % of the Budget% of the Budget
Project Management:Project Management:
- Administrative costsAdministrative costs
- MonitoringMonitoring
- EvaluationEvaluation
1010
11
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Preparatory phase, including:Preparatory phase, including:
- Entry point activities,Entry point activities,
- Institution and capacity buildingInstitution and capacity building
- Detailed Project Report (DPR)Detailed Project Report (DPR)
44
55
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Watershed Works Phase:Watershed Works Phase:
- Watershed development works,Watershed development works,
- Livelihood activities for the asset less persons,Livelihood activities for the asset less persons,
- Production system and micro enterprises.Production system and micro enterprises.
5050
10 Equity10 Equity
1313
Consolidation phaseConsolidation phase 55
TotalTotal 100100

20. Other Key Components
• Watershed Development or corpus Fund through
contributions.
• Farming systems for efficient use of inputs and
natural resources.
• Capacity building.
• Revision of financial norms is under consideration.
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Comparison of Hariyali, 2003 and
Common Guidelines, 2008
S. No. Contents Hariyali Guidelines,
2003
Common Guidelines, 2008
1 Programmes Three programmes IWDP,
DPAP, DDP
Single Programme IWMP
2 Project Area One micro-watershed (500
ha average size)
A cluster of micro-
watersheds (1000 ha to 5000
ha)
3 Selection of
watershed
Project area did not
exclude assured irrigation
area
Assured irrigation area
excluded from project area
4 Cost per ha. Rs. 6,000 Rs. 12,000- 15000(proposed)
5. Project
Period
5 years 4 to 7 years
6 Number of
Installments
Five (15%, 30%, 30%,
15%, 10%)
Three (20%, 50%, 30%)
Cntd……

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S. No. Contents Hariyali Guidelines, 2003 Common Guidelines, 2008
7 Fund Allocation Training & Comm. Mobi. 5%
Admn. 10%
Works 85%
Training 5%
Admn. 10%
Mon. & Eval. 2%
Works 78%
Consolidation 5%
8 Institutional
Support
Weak Institutional
arrangements
Dedicated Institutional
Structures at National,
District, Project and Village
level
9 Role of States Only advisory and
supervisory with no budget
support
Sanctioning authority for
projects with funding
support for monitoring
10 PIA at Project
level
Line Departments/
Autonomous Body/ PRI
Line Departments/
Autonomous Body/ VO

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S. No. Contents Hariyali Guidelines, 2003 Common Guidelines, 2008
11 PIA at Village
level
Gram Panchayat Watershed Committee
12 Training 2.5% of project funds 5% of project funds
13 Planning No separate component 1% for DPR Preparation with
scientific inputs
14 Monitoring &
Evaluation
No separate component
Mid-term & final evaluation
2% of project cost Concurrent
& Post Project evaluation
including evaluation of DPR
15 Sustainability Weak mechanism with
WDF as a tool
Consolidation Phase with WDF
and livelihood component as a
tool
16 Foreclosure Not provided Provided
17 Central Share
and State
Share
75:25 for DPAP and DDP
11:1 for IWDP
90:10 for IWMP

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Part - II
Convergence

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CONVERGENCE
• 2 + 2 = 6?
•This is possible by realising synergies,
complementarities through the process of planning,
harmonization and rationalization.
•This is necessary due to paradigm shift in the
progressive policies, programmes and investment
portfolio like NREGA, RKVY, BRGF etc.
•New common guidelines of the Watershed
Development projects and NREGA guidelines
specifically provide convergence.

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• Decentralization of functions to SLNA in the
new guidelines of watershed management
projects and RKVY have been institutionalised.
• Setting up of the constitutional bodies like DPC
enables the convergence process.
• There could be some difficulties with a few
clauses of various guidelines of the schemes to
be converged and they could be looked into

27. Objective
• To establish convergence and synergy among
ongoing governmental programmes for sustainable
livelihood of rural population
• To ensure proper linkage in the process, planning and
implementation of various governmental programmes
• To maximise economic, ecological and social benefits
from existing investment and infrastructure created
under various programmes/schemes

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Optimizing Crops
Horticulture
Live-Stock
Farming Systems
• IWMP
. NWDPRA
. Micro Irrigation
. AGWR, AIBP
. CAMPA
• Hort. & Bamboo
Mission
• NREGA
(40% material)
•SGSY
(Self employment)
•Vth & VIth
schedule
Inputs , Credit,
Insurance &
Derivatives
Consumption loan
•Rural electrification
(Single Phase RGGV)
•Non-Conventional energy
•Rural Roads
(Bharat Nirman)
•Marketing
•Planning at the grass-rootPlanning at the grass-root
•Convergence opportunities matrixConvergence opportunities matrix
BRGF
Convergence of Resources

29. Convergence at planning level
• Institution (planning unit)
• Process
• Activities

30. Convergence of Activities
• Kachha to Pucca (Value addition into NREGA
activities) i.e. PMGSY, BRGF, Horticulture Mission,
National Food Security Mission, RKVY
• Infrastructure to Income (Sustainable income to Rural
families) i.e SGSY, Fisheries development of fresh
water aquaculture, Dairy Development -Central
minikit testing programme on fodder crop
• Human Development ie adult literacy programme at
the worksites (National Literacy Mission), health
awareness by ASHA at worksites (National Rural
Health Mission)

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S.
No.
Programme
Need based Activity
NREGA Watershed
Programme
RKVY NHM BRGF PMGSY Water
Resource
Scheme
NFSM
1. Water conservation/
Harvesting/
i)Ridge Area X X
ii)Check Dam X X
iii) Ponds X X X X X
iv)Any other structure
for water conservation/
Harvesting
X X X X
2. Drought Proofing
i) Afforestation X X
ii)Tree X X
iii)Horticulture X X X X
3. Irrigation canal
i)Minor Irrigation X X
ii)Micro Irrigation X X X X X
4. Irrigation Facility to
SC/ST/BPL/IAY
X X
Technical Convergence (Activities (X) which can be converged)

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5. Renovation to Water
Bodies
i) Desilting X X X
ii) Repair X X X
6. Land Development
i) Common Land X X
ii) Individual Land
of SC/ST/BPL/
IAY
X X X
7. i)Flood Control X X
ii)Protection work X X
iii)Drainage in water
Logged
X X X X
8. Rural Connectivity
i)Fair Weather Road
X X
Technical Convergence (Activities (X) which can be converged)

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S. No Programme Comple
Mentarity
Capacity building Implementing
Agency
Coordinating
Personnel
Tech Support
personnel
Quality
control
Planning
(Bottom
up/Top
down
1 NREGS BRGF/
IWDP/
RKVY/
PMGSY/
HM/MI
No specific allocation
for training; use from
4% of total
expenditure
GP DC No specific
grant; use Out of
4% of total
expenditure
, GRS,
Mate, JE
Internal/
External
BU
(PRI)
2 Watershed
Programmes
NREGA/
BRGF/MI
5% of total cost PIA&WC DC DWDU/PIA/W
DT/WUG
Internal/
External
BU
(PRI)
3 RKVY NREGA/
BRGF/MI/
IWMP
Specific grant for
training and capacity
building
District DC Agriculture
Dept+ no extra
staff
Internal/
External
TD
(District)
4 NHM NREGS/
MI
Training programme
@ of Rs.1500/- per
farmer trained+ 31
lakhs each districts for
training to Supervisors
& Entrepreneurs
District DC Dept of
horticulture
+other
department for
training
Internal/
External
TD
(District)
Management Grid

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5 NREGA/
IWDP/
RKVY/
PMGSY/
HM/M
1% of total
fund
-- GP/ULB DC PRI dept but no
extra staff
Internal/
External
BU
(PRI)
5 NREGA/
IWDP/
RKVY/
PMGSY/
HM/M
6 PRGSY A Use
contractor/
NREGA/
BRGF
The National
Rural Road
Development
Agency may, in
co-operation
with the State
level Agency,
organise suitable
Training
Yes District TD
(District)
7 Water
Resource
Schemes
A NHM/
NREGS/
IWDP
Yes District DC Internal/
External
TD
(District)
8 National
food security
mission
NREGA/
BRGF/MI
Financial
assistance of
Rs.17,000/-per
training per FFS
in the identified
districts
Training of
extension
workers under
NFSM Pulses
with an
assistance of Rs.
1.0 lakh per
training of 50
trainees
Yes District DC Internal/
External
TD
(District)

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