2. Sporadic efforts by the agencies
working closely with the community
and addressing their need based
irrigation projects.
In 2008-09 Jamsetji Tata Trust had
sanctioned a Program Grant of Rs
1500 lakhs spread over three years on
mounting a Program on Diversion
Based Irrigation (DBI)
In 2011-12 Rs 3000 lakhs has been
committed for the Second Phase over
3. Small and marginal farmers.
Living in undulating terrains
Mostly ST, SC, Muslim and OBC community
Main occupation: Mono-crop Paddy
Second occupation: NTFP and migration
Deprived of many Government schemes
Remote area
Do not have much voice
Awareness level is low
5. 13 states with 49 NGO Partners (21direct+28co-
partners)
Rs 2600.00 lakhs have been allocated.
Achievement: 17387 households with 26730 acres
in 74 Blocks and 362 villages of 39districts.
The Trust partners have also been able to leverage
funding from similar other agencies and schemes
like MGNREGA, Orissa Tribal Livelihood and
Empowerment Project, International Fund for
Agriculture Development (IFAD), etc in the tune of
Rs 339.00 lakhs.
6. Revival of Traditional Irrigation System costs Rs.
1000 to 4000/ acre
Irrigation system using Pipe costs around 4 to 5
lakhs per scheme and irrigates around 40 to 60
acre
Average cost using pipe: Rs. 10,000/acres
including agriculture support
By the most conservative calculation (considering
only additional kharif paddy production and not
counting second crops) an output of Rs 896.36
lakhs.
AVERAGE COST IN DBI PROGRAM : Rs 4000/ acre
Any MI scheme costs Rs. 65,000/acre
7. 60 LWE districts identified by the GoI have
potential of more than 100 villages in each
district for pipe laid irrigation
Revival of traditional water management
practices in drought prone districts have
abundant scope.
Only constraint is to build capacity of the
identified partners to demonstrate DBI and
sensitize local administration for replication
8. Provides irrigation to poor, who can manage it
Nearly zero maintenance cost helps poor adopt it
Helps poor attain food sufficiency and enhance cash
income
Barefoot engineers can be promoted for replication
Discourages shifting cultivation and extremism
Easy to implement and short execution period
Small streams are tapped
24 hrs water supply fulfills domestic needs reducing
women drudgery
Already a network of NGOs are capacitated
Many potential sites are already identified
9. Reaching out to 25,000 small and marginal
farmers
Binging at least 30,000 acres of land under
irrigation where taking a second crop will be
ensured
Leveraging at least Rs 10.00 crores of
funding from similar kind of projects from
various schemes/agencies like
MGNREGA, NRLM, IFAD, NABARD, World Bank
funded projects, etc
10. Building local strong Institutions
Strengthening Agriculture
Leveraging from various agencies
14. Recommendation for INRM approach: This
will require heavy investment. This can ideally
be achieved only through working with Govt
programs like NRLM. The DBI Program in fact
can provide a platform for that to many
NGOs. Going for INRM will require different
approach by the Trust.
The Program is weak in agriculture: This will
be taken up with more seriously in the phase
II. However, this is to be understood that
most of the target people are first/second
generation agriculturists.
15. Capacity Building of the partner agencies: We
have indentified local NGOs/individuals who
can be groomed as resource persons region-
wise. More systematic training programs are
planned. The DBI secretariat will be
strengthened further.
