MISSION KAKATIYA

THE OBJECTIVE OF MISSION KAKATIYA

The objective of Mission Kakatiya is to enhance the development of agriculture based income for small and marginal farmers, by accelerating the development of minor irrigation infrastructure, strengthening community based irrigation management and adopting a comprehensive programme for restoration of tanks.The Government has prioritized to take the restoration of minor irrigation tanks to restore them to store their original capacity and to effectively utilize 255 TMC of water allocated for Minor irrigation sector under Godavari & Krishna River basins.

Introduction:

  • The minimum ayacut that can be irrigated with the above allocated water is about 20 lakh acres.
  • But as per the statistics the ayacut now being irrigated is only about 9 to 10 lakh acres under Minor Irrigation tanks. Thus, there is a gap ayacut of about 10 lakh acres.
  • The reasons for this gap ayacut under Minor Irrigation tanks are due to.
    • 1) Loss of water storage capacity of tanks due to accumulation of silt in tank beds over a long period.
    • 2) Due to dilapidated sluices, weirs and weak bunds
    • 3) De to defunct of feeder channels.
    • 4) Due to dilapidated condition of Irrigation canals.

 

A reconciliation survey was conducted to identify the exact number of all types of Minor irrigation sources in Telangana State. As persurvey 46,531 No of M.I, Small tanks, Percolation tanks, Private Kuntas and Small tanks (constructed by Forest Department) were identified for restoration.

The massive programme for Restoration of tanks is named as “ChinnaNeetiVanarulaPunaruddarana” and it is renamed as “Mission Kakatiya”.

The Govt is planned to restore 9,306 Tanks every year (20% of total tanks) with an eventual target of restoring all 46,531 tanks in 5 years, in a phased manner

The present programme of “MISSION KAKATIYA” is to bring this gap ayauct of 10 lakh acres in to command which requires no further allocation of water and also land acquisition.

This gap ayacut of 10 lakh acres under Minor Irrigation tanks can be brought to Irrigation.

  • 1) By de-silting the tank beds to restore original water storage capacity of tanks.
  • 2) By repairing dilapidated sluices, weirs etc.,
  • 3) By strengthening the tank bunds to its original standards.
  • 4) By repairing the feeder channels to standards for getting water freely into tanks.( Part of chain of tanks)
  • 5) By re-sectioning of irrigation channelsto standards & Repairs to CM & CD works for smooth distribution of water to fields according to their requirement.

IDENTIFICATION OF TANKS

  1. 1) The District Minister/ local MLA/MLC/Public representatives will be approached to identify priority order for restoration of local tanks.
  2. 2) Mandal Assistant Executive Engineer will submit the list of tanks under his Jurisdiction (along with their ayacut) to concerned officials / public representatives.
  3. 3) Identify tanks for which repair works have already been taken up under programme like CBTMP, RRR & Normal State Plan, along with type of the repairs taken up.
  4. 4) Preference will be given to tanks which have greater ayacut and good source of water.
  5. 5) Tanks which have not been covered under any programme will be given priority.
  6. 6) The chain of tanks in Mandal will be identified in the 1stphase. Repairs/ Re-sectioning of Feeder channel and Silt removal in the tanks will be taken up as priority basis.
  7. 7) One urban tank at constituency Head Quarters will be taken up and developed as Mini Tank Bund.

 

Advantages of Silt removal& Silt Application

    1. a) The water retention capacity of the soil will increase thereby decreasing the number of wettings.
    2. b) De-silting will improve ground water recharging capacity and increase the capacity of the tank there by increasing the availability of water even during the summer for irrigation & drinking water purposes.
    3. c) As per studies conducted, it is observed that due to de-silting the fluoride content in the ground water will be reduced considerably.
    4. d) Silt can be used as nutrient / fertilizer to the plant which generally reduces the usage of fertilizer.
    5. e) The yield of the crops like cotton and chillies is increased by 20 to 30%.