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Gujarat bagged Prime Minister's award for excellence in Public Administration

Gujarat State Watershed Management Agency (GSWMA) has been
conferred Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public
Administration for the year 2010-11 for the initiative entitled
“Participatory Watershed Management Programme”. The award was
received today by Shri Ram Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of GSWMA
from Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on the occasion of Civil
Service Day held in New Delhi.
GSWMA is the nodal agency to implement Integrated Watershed
Management Programme (IWMP) across Gujarat state. The main aims of
the IWMP are to restore the ecological balance by harnessing,
conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil,
vegetative cover and water. The outcomes proposed are prevention of
soil run-off, regeneration of natural vegetation, rain water
harvesting and recharging of the ground water table. This is
expected to enable multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse
agro-based activities, which help to provide sustainable
livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed area.
Shri Ram Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of GSWMA after receiving
the award on behalf of Gujarat Government said that right from the
planning phase of the project, scientific tools have been used to
ensure accuracy and efficiency. The approach followed for planning
involves: i) creation, development and management of geo-spatial
data base depicting present conditions of land, water and
vegetation with respect to watershed under different ownerships at
village level, ii) compatible socio-economic aspects and their
analysis, iii) historical perspective land-water treatment of the
area. The tool developed by the Gujarat State Watershed Management
Agency has been widely appreciated at National level in multiple
fora.
He further said that total 21.34 Lac Ha. Area with an outlay of
2769.72 crores has been covered under IWMP for the implementation
that includes 3 batches sanctioned in the year 2009-10, 2010-11 and
2011-12 respectively. For monitoring purpose too, GIS has is being
utilized.
Processes have been Standardized and accordingly Technical Manual,
Capacity Building Manual, Human Resource Manual, Livelihood Manual
& Operational Guidelines have been framed and operationalized. It
has been made mandatory to converge with other schemes and
programmes to bridge the fund gap and remove the duplication of
works. Convergence worth 283.02 crores have been taken up for the
projects sanctioned in year 2009-10.
Shri Ram Kumar added that for the first time in watershed
programme, livelihood activities have been included to extend
benefits to landless and asset-less people of the project area.
Livelihood action plan has been prepared and being implemented
across state. Batch-wise budgetary allocation for livelihood is 215
crores, 180 crores and 185 crores for the projects sanctioned in
the year 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively.
In a case that reflects the essence of IWMP, one of the remotest
villages of Gujarat named Eval of Patan district has reported
wonderful results in mere one year’s time. A parched village where
farmers could only dream of a lowly pearl millet, now a farmer is
cultivating castor in an area of 2.4 ha and 10 farmers are
cultivating cumin in the remaining 15.6 ha. The average
productivity of cumin varies from 6 to 8 quintal/ha and castor is
25-30 quintal/ha.
Shri S.K. Nanda, Principal Secretary (Forest and Environment), Shri
Arvind Agarwal, Principal Secretary (ARTD,GAD), Shri Rajeeva, Addl.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Shri Bharat Lal, Resident
Commissioner and other senior officers from State Government
participated the function.
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