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| Q: What is Karnataka Community Based Tank Management Project (KCBTMP) |
A: It is a tank rejuvenation project of the state government being implemented by a special purpose vehicle viz, JSYS (Jala Samvardhane Yojane Sangh)
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| Q: How many tanks are there in the state? |
A: Over 36000
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| Q: What is JSYS? |
A: Jala Samvardhane Yojane Sangha, is a society registered under society's registration act and commenced functioning with the mandate to implement 2005 selected tank system in the state of Karnataka.
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| Q: When the project commenced and when it shall close? |
A: The project commenced in 2002 June and shall get over by January 2012
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| Q: Can you explain the organization structure? |
A: There is a governing council headed by the Minister of Minor irrigation, an executive committee headed by ACS, and Executive Director, who heads JSYS, District Project Units and CFT's (Cluster Facilitation Teams)
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| Q: What is the role of the Community in the tank management project? |
A: The key feature of the project is the involvement of the community at all stages of the project namely preplanning, planning, implementation and post implementation
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| Q: What is the funding mechanism to TUG's? |
A: The Participatory Rural Appraisal helps the Tank User Group to formulate the Integrated Tank Development Project. The specialists from Cluster Facilitation Teams and as well the District Project Unit help the community in developing the ITDP. Then the ITDP is presented before for the District level apprisal committee chaired by Deputy Commissioner where it will be accepted with suggestions if any and then the TUG shall enter into a tripartite agreement and then the funds are released to TUG.
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| Q: How many districts have been identified in the state? |
A: In the first phase there were 9 districts and in the second phase there are 9 districts
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| Q: What are the key performance indicators? |
A: 1. Community-based, self-supporting, and sustainable tank development institutions in place and functioning.
2. Meaningful participation of traditionally marginalized tank users.
3. Agriculture production (productivity and area) covered by the tank system increased.
4. Household incomes of direct stakeholders increased.
5. Amount of funds generated and retained by user groups/local governments for operations and maintenance.
6. Percent of local governments (i.e. Panchayati raj institutions) involved in planning and coordinating technical support for improving tank systems.
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| Q: What are the project components? |
A: The project consists of three components:
A. Establishing an enabling environment for the sustainable, decentralized management of tank systems;
B. Strengthening community-based institutions to assume responsibility for tank system development and management; and
C. Undertaking tank system improvements: (a) improving the operational performance of selected tank systems through a menu of physical interventions identified and executed by local users; and (b) facilitating technical training and on-farm demonstrations in water management, agriculture and horticulture development, fisheries, forestry, and fodder production to help ensure that improved water storage and efficiency is translated into increased household incomes.
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| Q: How are the tanks selected for the project? |
A: 1. The tanks should be irrigation tanks
2. They should not be under private ownership
3. There should be signficant presence of poor people
4. The tank should have filled at least three times in a period of ten years
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| Q: Who are the stake holders? |
A: The entire village community is involved in the Sangh which is a registered society. The stake holders are women, command area farmers, landless agriculture labours, SHG's etc.,
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| Q: Is there a gender strategy? |
A: Yes, the project has a gender strategy. There is provision for developing Women Interest Group which will basically address the issues affecting women in the tank system
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| Q: How the issue of encroachment is tackled? |
A: The tanks selected under the project will ensure the communities willingness to evict the encroachers. However, if the encroachment is of more than three years and has no alternatives for livelihood then in that case the project compensates the project affected family as per the R&R policy
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| Q: Do you have an environment policy? |
A: Yes, the project has environment policy.
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| Q: Do you fisheries activity in the tank management project? |
A: Yes, wherever there is water available for about 4 months and if the quality is desirable the fisheiries activity is encouraged
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| Q: Do you advocate water saving technologies? |
A: Yes the project is advocating water saving technologies eg. Jalasri Method of Paddy cultivation.
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| Q: How the productivity of agriculture is ensured? |
A: The project has well defined agriculture interventions implemented through University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore and Dharwad. Crop demonstrations and Farmers Field Schools are conducted to disseminate improved technologies to increase the productivity.
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| Q: What is the role for NGO’s in the project? |
A: The role of NGO's is to facilitate TMI's in tank project implementation
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| Q: What is Participatory Rural Appraisal? |
A: Partiticipatory Rural Appraisal is a tool which will help the community to identify the problems related to the tanks and prepare a Integrated Tank Development Project.
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| Q: Whether the community will be trained to enable to take up this project? |
A: Yes the TMI members are trained on various aspects of institutional developmnet. In all there are 14 modules of trainings delivered during the project life cycle.
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| Q: What is a ZP tank? |
A: Tanks which are less than 4 ha are fall in the purview of ZP. Such a tank is called ZP tank.
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| Q: What is MI tank? |
A: An MI tanks is generally a tank which is above 10 hactares and is known as MI Tank. Edit Delete
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| Q: What is the project cycle? |
A: Duration within which the project has to be completed. The project has 30 months project cycle.
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| Q: Whether the people have to contribute? And if yes how much? |
A: Yes, the community has to contribute 6%
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| Q: Who will look after the tanks once when the tank works are completed? |
A: The TMI has to under take the responsibility of future maintaiance of the tank.
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| Q: How the sustainability is ensured in the tank management institutions? |
A: The sustainibility of the tank management institutions depends on the resource mobilization. The sources of income for the TMI are the water charges levied on the command area farmers, sale of silt, income from the foreshore plantations and as well the income fisheries activities.
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| Q: How the project monitored? |
A: The project is monitored by M&L section.
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| Q: What are the impacts? |
A: The ground water level has increased. In the same way use of biologial products has increased.
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| Q: Which are the communication tools developed by JSYS? |
A: Varta Patra, Brouchures, Video films, Posters and Booklets have been published
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| Q: Do you have a newsletter? If yes how to subscribe to that? |
A: Yes there is newsletter, which is published every quarter which includes project activities and success stories.
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| Q: What are the job opportunities in JSYS? |
A: Qualified candidates are recruited for the post of Social Specialists, Assistant Engineers, R&R specialists, Water Resources Specialists, Fisheries specialists, Accounts assistants, M&L specialists etc.,
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| Q: What is the follow on project? |
A: Based on the results of the ongoing project the Government has approved continuation of the project on another 1224 tanks from 8 districts.
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| Q: Which are the other states where World Bank funded tank management projects are taken up? |
A: Similar projects are undertaken in the state of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
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