Rajasthan is one of the major states in India in terms of area. With upcoming policies and development in all sectors, we have seen several improvements in state machinery. Recent analysis of upcoming power plants and solar plant projects indicates an optimistic pattern in the overall improvement in the state of the economy and peace-making bodies. As Rajasthan is becoming a hub for new projects, we can all see that many new small-scale initiative projects have taken place for farming. With all these trends of development, one area which concerns the state machinery is its water allocation and management system.
As the state gets its water share from the ravines and Beas’s rivers through the Rajasthan feeder and Bikaner canal. Rajasthan serves its area on the western side with the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP). As Rajstahn’s water source is being shared with various states, other states have made an agreement for pre-partition of water allocation. Such pre-partitioning of water is dependent upon the rainfall in that year.
Rajasthan shares water with the different states and is reliant on a single source of water. Many farmers have to face the inconvenience of water in their areas of Rajasthan. The crop state has recorded a significantly lower amount of water than what is required, as in previous Rabi seasons. The inconvenience was caused by such fluctuations in water distribution.
However, the state machinery has planned an action for an efficient water allocation system in the coming years.is planning to introduce innovative measures for water conservation and optimization of output in the farming sector through machinery and technology. We are seeing an upcoming optimistic effect of the government.
Vision 2045
Water Resource Vision 2045
To achieve the objective of sustainable development of water resources and optimum utilisation of these scarce and precious natural resources, our vision for the year 2045 regarding the water sector is:
- Make Rajasthan the foremost in management of water resources.
- Harness all the (16.05 BCM) economically utilisable surface water through improved planning, design and construction.
- Full utilisation of created irrigation potential and maximum crop production per unit of water.
- Water conservation in all sectors by optimum utilisation, use of water saving devices and improved practices.
- Comprehensive and integrated planning for surface and groundwater resources including conjunctive use sustainability and maintaining quality.
- Environmentally sustainable water resources development, proper treatment and reuse of sewage and industrial effluents and mitigation of environment degradation i.e. water logging and salinity.
- Financially sustainable development of water resources with pricing structure to reflect scarcity value of water and encourage water conservation.
- Effective drought and flood control management
- Participation of users in development and management of water resources.
- Efficient and adequate human resources development, institutional infrastructure and legal support for adopting new technologies/practices and innovative approach.
- Effective management to complete projects with no cost and time overrun and to ensure quality.
- Active private sector participation and management and development of water resource projects.
Improvement in the water allocation system of Rajstahn is being done by taking measures for
- The canal irrigated clusters
- Watershed clusters
- as well as groundwater clusters
There are upcoming measures to the Rajasthan water allocation system that may result in improvement in the water allocation system of Rajasthan.
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