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INTERDEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION

  • In order to ensure inter departmental coordination at the District level, the Government has constituted the District Level Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Committee for Mission Kakatiya.
  • The composition of the Committee is as follows:
District Collector : Chairman
Joint Collector : Member
Conservator of Forest/Divisional Forest Officer (Social Forestry) : Member
Superintending Engineer (MI) : Member-convener
Chief Executive Officer, ZillaParishad : Member
Joint Director of Agriculture : Member
Sub-Collectors/Revenue Divisional Officers in the district : Member
Project Director, DWAMA : Member
Executive Officer, BC Co-operative Society : Member
Assistant Director, Fisheries : Member
District Panchayat Officer : Member
District Public Relations Officer : Member
Deputy Director, Ground water : Member
Chief Planning Officer : Member
  • District level committee shall meet once in a week during the working season and once in a month during the rest of the year.
  • The tank wise progress of implementation of the works should be reviewed, any problems encountered with, if any, in implementation of the programme be discussed and resolved.
  • Minutes of the meeting will be communicated to the officers concerned.

Irrigation & CAD department

  • The Irrigation & CAD department is the chief implementing department. The works will be executed through the Superintending Engineer and the Executive Engineer of the concerned areas, supported by the field engineers i.e., Dy. Executive Engineers and the Assistant Executive Engineers, under overall supervision of the Chief Engineer, Minor Irrigation.
  • The engineers at all the levels will have to be in constant touch with the officials of the line departments to have better coordination.

Agriculture Department

  • The tasks that are to be carried out by the Agriculture department are : In all tanks, samples of the silt should be collected to test its suitability for application in agriculture fields and wide publicity should be given to utilize tank bed silt by farmers. b) The farmers should be motivated by the department on the following;
    • (1) Efficient use of available water through change in irrigation system and improved water management techniques.
    • (2) Increase in productivity of farms through suitable cropping patterns and increased cropping intensity.
    • (3) Balanced use of chemical fertilizers and judicious use of plant protection chemicals.
    • (4) Reduction of cultivation cost through introduction of improved implements and equipment.
    • (5) Introduction of high-tech agriculture to increase farm returns.
    • Rural Development Department
  • The department should converge various other programmes being implemented, with the Mission Kakatiya and coordinate with other line departments whenever and wherever necessary.
    • Forest Department
  • The tasks that are to be carried out by the Forest department are
  • Effective utilization of tank foreshore areas in selected locations through afforestation.
  • Nursery raising and plantation wherever necessary.
  • Training for maintenance and cultural operations. (IV)Planting Silver Oak and Toddy ( Eetha ) trees around the tank boundaries. These activities, apart from reducing silt inflow into the tank, are also expected to create an additional, sustainable income source for the tank community.

Fisheries Department

  • The department should take up the following activities which will result in increase in aquaculture.
  • Upgrading production practices through improved stocking.
    • (ii) use of Improved feeding, management and harvesting techniques.
    • (iii) Intensive fish and prawn cultivation.

Revenue Department

  • The Revenue Department officials will have to coordinate with the field Engineers in
  • Identifying the Shikam lands.
  • Determining/demarking the FTL of the tank.
  • Identifying the government waste lands for dumping the unproductive soil.
  • Cooperating between Revenue and Irrigation depts for removing illegal constructions in tank beds .
  • Ground Water Department
  • The ground water department should regularly
  • Monitor the groundwater levels and quality of groundwater.
  • Supply list of over exploited villages to the district Superintending Engineers/Executive Engineers.

Information and Public Relations Department

  • Create awareness on the benefits of restoration of the tanks by using different types of media and organizing IEC activities like street plays, kala jathas, wall writings, pamphlets and involving rural folklore like Chindu, Oggu Kathalu etc.
  • Motivate the farmers to utilize the useful silt excavated out of the tanks in their agriculture fields at their cost, by explaining the benefits that come out of it.
  • Organize essay and elocution competitions for the students on the topic “tanks and their restoration”, in coordination with the education department, at school, mandal and district levels and award prizes to the winners to encourage them in motivating their parents.
  • Involve NCC, NSS, Guides and Scouts and Nehru Yuva Kendras etc., in propagating the benefits of the programme.
  • Involve Public Representatives and SHGs in the programme.
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