Exploit surface water through promotion of community managed irrigation schemes Promote agriculture production clusters and create farm based employment opportunity for poor farmers Increase irrigated coverage and cropping intensity
Skill women farmers as pump operator and manage irrigation systems Increase farm income

• Envisaged outcome are;
  • Installation of approximately 750 Irrigation schemes in 7 blocks
  • Irrigation availability in 15,000 acres of land
  • Promotion of 750 WUA and 750 WUC
  • 1500 women trained pump mechanic
  • 18 Trained master/block level pump mechanic
  • 200% Cropping intensity in the command area

• LIS consists of a pumpset and pipeline to lift* water from perennial stream/river and water used to irrigate nearby farmers field.

• The term „Micro„ synonymous to small and in this context denotes

  • Area 25-40 acre
  • 5-10 Hp pump
  • 20-25 ft suction pipe
  • 500-1000 mtrs delivery pipe
• Managed and owned by the community

*in some locations the water source is located above the command area, hence no pump is required. The water automatically flows to the field under the force of gravity. Such schemes are referred as gravity irrigation or diversion based irrigation.

• Small and marginal farmers of Jharkhand who are part of
  • SHGs promoted by JSLPS under NRLM
  • SHGs that are NRLM compliant, or follow „PANCHSUTRA„ ( Regular meeting, regular savings, Have book of accounts, Rotate group fund for advancing loan to its members
  • SHGs those are credit worthy ( have taken bank loan and repaid/repaying loan as per agreed terms or not bank defaulters )
  • SHG members are part of and participate in VOs and CLF promoted by JSLPS
  • Women farmers would given priority

• JSLPS stands for Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society, it’s an autonomous body promoted by Jharkhand Government to promote Rural Livelihoods.
• NRLM is National Rural Livelihood Mission, is registered as Society in Delhi, to promote rural livelihoods in all 28 states and 7 Union Territories.
• NRLM is also known as „AAJEEVIKA„
• JSLPS is now active in all the blocks in Jharkhand, and initially it starts with promotion of Women Self Help Groups (SHGs)

• The cost of LIS would depend on several factors, area to be irrigated, distance from water source to area to be irrigated etc. It would also depend which kind of pump is used for the scheme ( Solar/diesel/electricity).
• Roughly one scheme might cost Rs. 5-10 lakh.
• The LIS is being financed by the Government of Jharkhand, so farmers do not have to pay anything for “the scheme”.
• However all farmers need to actively participate during, site selection, during implementation of the scheme and in proper functioning of the scheme.
• For smooth implementation and scheme usage, the community would need to form “Water Users Association” (WUA) and “Water Users Committee” (WUC) and develop rules and regulation to ensure smooth conduct of all member farmer
• The WUA functioning requires money, this would be collected from the member farmer
• And once the scheme is implemented the farmers need to purchase diesel for the pump, pay to the pump mechanic, pay user charge that would go for maintenance and pump replacement in due course of time.

Scheme selection:

• The site identification is initially done by the community; it is then vetted by i-PFT and VOs. Technical feasibility is carried out by the i-PFT and based on this the final selection is done by the SIEC.
Scheme Approval:
• The approval authority is CEO JSLPS

For seven blocks Rs.50 crore

Yes irrigation cess is collected by the government. BUT for this scheme there is no such tax proposed.

• In 2017-18, Government of Jharkhand has approved 12 Blocks for LIS
• And of these, work would be taken up in initially in 6 blocks, known as Phase-1, during Sept 2017- March 2018.
• Blocks Are

• Make awareness about LIS
• Help community identify suitable site for LIS
• Help community make application
• The Team is placed at the Block Headquarter
• And beside the Block team one could contact the following
  • JSLPS promoted Women's SHG,
  • JSLPS promoted VOs
  • JSLPS promoted CLF
  • Or any JSLPS staff or Community cadre (CRPs)

The number of LIS in a block would depend on water source, perennial nature of the stream/river. And exact number would be known only after the community engagement and technical survey

From application to implementation it would take around 2-3 months.

Implementation would be done by the empanelled vendors, who have been identified through tendering process.

Community is the "owner" and "user" of the Irrigation scheme. They are the most important stakeholder. Thus responsibility both as owner and as user, and often these responsibilities would be difficult to distinguish under which domain they fall.
Other stakeholders are the "State government functionaries", which include range of officials' i-PFT members, SIEC staff, JSLPS officials and other department officials and finally the "Vendors" who on behalf of the government would implement the entire scheme.
For clarity the role of community is given in the tabular form.

The Irrigation Scheme would be operated by the pump mechanic; s/he would be from your community, identified by you who would be trained by this project for 15-30 days in various aspects of the scheme including maintenance of the pump.

The training would be free of cost, and partial expenses would be borne by the government for in boarding and lodge. No cash payment or stipend would be given during the training.

The Pump operator would be certified and needs to be paid for her services by the farmers.

The pump mechanic is one who social and accepted in the community, be part of the SHG ecosystem and JSLPS.

Should be literate and has learning attitude, and at present provide service to the community.

Should be able to spare time for providing the service and also participate in training.

Woman as Pump Mechanic: Role each of us perform, is determined by several factors, most important being for what each of us aspired or were trained for.

Society does decide what each of us should do, and direct what a girl can do and what a boy can do. But recently the role boundaries for woman and man have changed everywhere and in every front. There are women, occupying the highest seat of power, some are pilot in fighter aircraft and commercial airline,.etc.

It has been seen that women are more sincere in work. They perform equally and even better in certain positions. In that context the decision of this project, which is an extension of JSLPS works that revolves around "women" there is demand for Women mechanic.