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| Last Updated:: 05/09/2018

Irrigation and Water resource

About: What is irrigation?

 

Irrigation is the artificial application of water to land for the purpose of agricultural production. Effective irrigation will influence the entire growth process from seedbed preparation, germination, root growth, nutrient utilisation, plant growth and regrowth, yield and quality.

The key to maximising irrigation efforts is uniformity. The producer has a lot of control over how much water to supply and when to apply it but the irrigation system determines uniformity. Deciding which irrigation systems is best for your operation requires a knowledge of equipment, system design, plant species, growth stage, root structure, soil composition, and land formation. Irrigation systems should encourage plant growth while minimising salt imbalances, leaf burns, soil erosion, and water loss. Losses of water will occur due to evaporation, wind drift, run-off and water (and nutrients) sinking deep below the root zone.

 

 

Choosing an irrigation system 

 

There is a huge diversity in the types of irrigation technologies/systems used, which is attributable to,

v  Variations in soil types

v  Varying topography of the land

v  Availability of power sources

v  Availability of water

v  Sources of water

v  The period of time when the system was installed

v  The size of the area being irrigated

v  On farm water storage capacity

v  Availability of labour/financial resources

 

 

Irrigation and Water Resource, U.P., it is focused toward the development and construction of dams, canals and wells. Department executed it objective and facilitated the state’s citizens’ with the sufficient facility of irrigation and in meanwhile department also executed flood prevention works and always strives to avoid horrors of flooding.

 

1

Total Geographic Area of the state

240.93 lac hectares

2

Total cultivable Command Area

187.71 lac hectares

3

(a) Area sown for the first time

165.93 lac hectares

 

(b) Area sown more than one time

90.22  lac hectares

 

(c) Area sown entirely

256.15 lac hectares

4

Maximum Actual Cultivation

(Year 2013 &14)

75.65 lac hectares

5

Irrigation capacity created by canals and tube wells in the state

125.45 lac hectares

6

Total number of drains in state

6450 Adada

7

Total length of drains in the state

42625.91 km

8

Length of total canals in the state

74248.43 km

 

U.P

73051.85 km

Main Canal

5310.82 km

 

Other States

1196.58 km

Branch Canal

7380.69 km

 

Total -

74248.43 km

Distributary

24625.74 km

   

Alpika

36931.18 km

9

Number of reservoirs in the state

71(except 02 reservoirs irrigation is carried out in the remaining 69)

10

(a) Length of dams in the state for protection from flood

3813.967 km

 

(b) Areas benefited from Point (a)

16.12 lac hectares

 

v    No. of working national tube wells in the state-33,375

v  From total 33,375 working national tube wells, 25205 national tube wells have a capacity of 1.5 cusec and remaining 8170 national tube wells have a capacity of 1.0 cusec. A total irrigation of 29.29 lac hectares is obtained from working national tube wells in the state.

v  From total 249 small branched canals, irrigation capacity of 1.77 lac hectares is obtained.

v  Total 28 large and medium pump canals are functional. The main work of large and medium canals is carried out by Mechanical Organization while the work of recording the irrigation is carried out by Civil Organization.

 

 

Milestones of Department

1817

Lord Hasting handed over the task of maintenance of canal originating from western bank of Yamuna River to Lieutenant Blane of Engineering Core.

1821

Operation of Western Yamuna Canal.

1822

Lord Hasting handed over the task of maintenance of Doab canal originating from Eastern bank of Yamuna River to Lieutenant Dibuied.

1823

Establishment of first Irrigation Office in Saharanpur.

1830

Operation of Eastern Yamuna Canal.

1842

Construction started of Upper Ganga Canal By Colonel Proby Cautley.

1854

Supply of water in Upper Ganga Canal.

1855

Establishment of Central Public Works Department.

1871

Approval to construction of Lower Ganga Canal.

1878

·         Construction of Agra Canal System started.

·         Operation of Lower Ganga Canal started.

1880

Recommendation of providing Irrigation facility in 40% land of total Culturable land in Bundelkhand by Drought Commission.

1885

Construction work of Betwa Canal completed.

1886

Betwa Canal got operated for irrigation in Jalauna and Hamirpur districts.

1898

Construction of Fatehpur Water Branch.

1903

Formation of Second Drought Commission, in which it Reiterated to provide irrigation facility as recommended by First Drought Commission.

1906

Construction started of Lehchura Dam on Dhasan River.

1907

Construction of Dhasan Canal.

1909

Construction Started if Pahadi Dam on Dhasan River.

1910

·         Construction completed of Lehchura dam on Dhasan River.

·         Construction of Dhukva Dam.

1912

Construction completed of Pahadi dam on Dhasan River.

1913

Construction of Ghagra Canal.

1915

·         Construction of Garai Canal.

·         Construction of Gangau Dam on Ken River.

1919

Construction started of Sharda Canal System.

1928

Construction completed of Sharda Canal System.

1952

Construction started of Matateela Dam.

1954

Formation of PWD and Irrigation Department.

1955

First flood work started by Irrigation Department.

1956

Discharge of Yamuna canal is increased to 2500 cusec from 800 cusec.

1957

Construction completed of Narayani Canal System.

1961

·         Construction of Rihand dam.

·         Establishment of Irrigation Research Institution in Rurkee.

·         Setting up of Control Design Directorate at Lucknow.

1964

·         Construction completed of Matateela Dam.

·         Technical Examination Wing established in Secretariat for Irrigation Department.

1968

Sharda Sahayk Canal construction started.

1972

Construction of Gandak Canal System.

1973

Construction started of Rajghat canal.

1974

Construction of Western Allahabad Branch.

1977

Commencement of Kanhar project.

1978

·         Construction started of Bheemgauda dam.

·         Construction of Saryu canal.

1984

·         Construction completed of Bheemgauda dam.

·         Construction of Parallel Lower Ganges Canal.

1994

Construction of Gandak Canal System completed.

1996

Beginning of Baan Sagar Project.

2003

The Infomation System Organization establish in Irrigation Department in July 2012 under Project Component C-I Consolidation and Enhancement of Irrigation Department reforms Organization/department with activity UPID Modernization & Capacity Building In Uttar Pradesh Water Sector Restructuring Phase-II. The Following works executed by ISO mainly using modern Technology.

⇒ Establishment of SCADA Syestem in Various Structure of Canal System for Real Time Discharge.

⇒ Development of Mobile App for Flood Information System.

2017

Application of Remote Sensing Technique in Flood Information System 

Application of Web Based Technique in Monitoring Management System.

 

 

 

 

Source: Irrigation and Water resource Department, U.P. : “http://www.idup.gov.in/”