Irrigation Panchayats in Madhya Pradesh: A Case Study

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4622
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Raju, K. Vengamma
Date:	1992
Agency:	Irrigation Management Network, Overseas Development Institute, London
Series:	Network Paper, no. 21
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4622
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	irrigation
Abstract:	"In Madhya Pradesh, the formation of Irrigation Panchayats (IPs) is compulsory under the Madhya Pradesh Irrigation Act, modified in 1974. IPs have been functioning for 50-60 years in both major and medium canal irrigation systems, mainly in the rice-growing Chattisgarh region. The size of each IP usually coincides with a village size. As of 1990, in the Mahanadi Command Area, there were 736 IPs, with a total irrigated area of 183,000 hectares (ha). Each IP has a small committee elected once in three years and serves on an average 251 ha."

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