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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH WATERSHED APPROACH

Sponsored

UPS Foundation under UPS Grant Global Grant Program

Total Budget

INR. 18,36,179.00 (39,111.00 USD)

Project Period

2010 to 2012

Districts and Taluk Covered

Bangalore Rural District, Doddaballapura Taluk

Villages Covered

Acharlahalli, D.Kodigehalli, Gulya-Nandigunda, Sonnamaranahalli, Kurubarahally, & Udanahalli

Project Summary

Objectives:

Increase the capacities of communities for sustainable management of natural resources i.e. land, water, vegetation etc.
To promote the overall socio-economic condition of resource poor.
Optimum utilization of Natural Resources for holistic development.
Ecological balance through reduction of soil erosion improvement of soil moisture regime and groundwater recharge.
Increase in production and productivity in agriculture through a watershed approach

Cumulative Process

Sl. No	Nature of work	Approved Grant Budget		Expenditure		% of achievement (Fin)	Reasons for deviation
Sl. No	Nature of work	Physical	Financial	Physical	Financial	% of achievement (Fin)	Reasons for deviation
1	Field bund	1600 meter	32000	2500 m	64800	202.50	This village has got sloppy land compared to other villages of the watershed. Bunding is essential and the farmers are also eager to get their land bunded.
2	Vegetative bund / Strips	1290 meter	19350	1548 m	19384	100.18	—
3	Bore well recharge pit	30 nos	360000	35 nos	442727	122.98	The water level in the project area has gone down; the yield of bore well is decreased. Because of increase in such low yielded bore wells, more BRCP work has been taken up.
4	Open well recharge	12 nos	60000	3 nos	23387	38.98	The open well farmers have closed their open wells either partly or completely because well are totally dried and want to cultivate in that area. In turn they have drilled more bore wells in that area for irrigation. We have taken BRCP works for such farmers.
5	Check dam	1 no	125000	1 no	124705	99.76	—
6	RRS	2 nos	60000	2 nos	59991	99.99	—
7	Forestry	15 hec	300000	8 hec	155000	51.67	Because of more supply of forest seedlings by other agencies such as forest dept, G.P, NAREGA etc, there is a less scope for this activity.
8	Horticulture	20 hec	130000	21 hec	133000	102.31	—
9	Vermi compost	12 nos	60000	25 nos	125026	208.38	The effect of our training on Organic farming system, the farmers have motivated and go organic systems through vermin composting system. Because of high cost of inorganic fertilizers, more farmers were interested to go for vermiculture. Still there is a lot of scope for vermiculture.
10	Micro irrigation techniques	12 Nos	66000	12nos	65500	99.24	—
11	Demonstration on Rain water harvesting	4 nos	200000	4 nos	199699	99.85	—
12	Work shop on Watershed and rain water harvesting	4 prog	40000	4 nos	40000	100.00	—
	TOTAL	–	14,52,350	–	14,53,219	100.06	—

Impact / Outcome

All targeted people are get awareness & knowledge on soil & water conservation, rainwater harvesting etc.
Improved the status of groundwater in the area
Quality and quantity of water is improved
Improved livelihood and socio-economic status of the targeted community due to increase in agriculture production / income of 564 families.
Increased irrigation efficiency and agriculture production.
The area under irrigation was increased by 38 %.
Decrease in use of groundwater and energy for pumping.
Increase in area under vegetative cover through forestry and horticulture activities.
The average irrigated by a well is 1.07ha, under flood irrigation, where as 2 to 2.5ha, under drip irrigation.
Increased the drinking water availability in school buildings due to rainwater harvesting structures

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