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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modi govt's one success story: Accelerated Irrigated Benefits Programme -Amitabh Sinha

Modi govt's one success story: Accelerated Irrigated Benefits Programme -Amitabh Sinha

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published Published on Mar 30, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 30, 2018
-The Indian Express

The last two years have seen some progress in expediting completion of unfinished major and minor canal projects.

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Sustainedefforts over the last two years to improve irrigation access for farmers in India seem to have begun showing results, at least in terms of creation of physical infrastructure.

The Narendra Modi government had, in 2016, embarked on a mission to complete all unfinished major and medium irrigation projects – some of these languishing for decades – under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP). Two years on – the mission was announced in the Union Budget presented on February 29, 2016 – the progress has been quite impressive, going by the information made available by the Ministry of Water Resources.

Out of the total 105 projects targeted for completion before December 2019, work in as many as 41 is either over orat least 90 per cent finished. The 41 include all the 18 ‘Priority I’ projects that were supposed to have been completed by the end of 2017. There are another 32 projects, categorised under ‘Priority II’, which are to be completed this year. The remaining 55 ‘Priority III’ projects have a deadline of December next year.

The Ministry’s data shows that in 16 projects – including nine in the ‘Priority II’ and seven in the ‘Priority III’ lists – between 80 and 90 per cent of work has been completed. Further, in 57 out of the total 105 projects, there has been minimum 80 per cent work completion. That ratio, at 54 per cent, isn’t bad, considering that we still have more than one-and-a-half years to gofor the terminal date of December 2019.

The 105 projects together are expected to bring an additional 6.7 million hectares (mh) of cultivable land under irrigation. Here again, the works undertaken till February 2018 have already created nearly 4.4 mh of new irrigation potential, which is 65 per cent of the target set for December 2019.

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The Indian Express, 29 March, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/modi-govts-one-success-story-accelerated-irrigated-benefits-programme-5115117/


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