Projects

Keeping in view the serious land and water related problems faced by the state of Punjab and enlarged scope of Integrated Watershed Management Program (IWMP) of the Government of India, four central districts of Punjab namely Tarantaran, Jallundhur, Ludhiana and Faridkot were selected for the implementation of this project on a pilot basis. All the districts face variety of problems and at the micro-watershed level, these problems are seriously impacting the livelihoods of the community and no other program is seriously addressing them in a holistic manner. An area of 5000 ha in three micro-watersheds was selected to cover 24 villages of this district for 2010-11. The DPR of the project area has been recently prepared. The PRA exercises brought out the following type of problems.

The project area is located in Dhar Kalan Block of erstwhile Gurdaspur but now Pathankot district of Punjab state. The Latitude varies from 32^o 20 to 32^o 30 and longitude from 75^o-45 to 75^o to 55 and covered by Survey of India topo-sheets No 43P/15 and 43P/11. Three micro-watershed have been included in the project. The micro-watershed Putoli (IWDP-II) is located about 35 Km from Pathankot on left side of Pathankot Dalhousie road ,have watershed code B3e (ICIB4k4, ICIB4k5, ICIB4k6, ICIB4k7)  and covers treatable area of 2791 ha. The area of Bhawar  Khad is located along the Pathankot- Jugial- Shahpur Kandi road, have watershed code A7c (ICIB3d7, ICIB3d8, ICIB3g1, ICIB3g2), with treatable area of 2328 ha.  The area of Hara  Majah micro-watershed is accessed from Pathankot- Nurpur road; have watershed code A7f (ICIB3d8, ICIB3g1, ICIB3g2) with treatable area of 1256 ha. The entire area falls in rain-fed, highly degraded, water stressed, poverty ridden Shivalik foot hill region having sizeable number of SC, BPL and landless/small farmer communities the Dhar Kalan Block area receives mean annual rainfall of 1400 mm with bimodal pattern of distribution. Almost 80 percent of rainfall occurs in three monsoon months with very high coefficient of variability the area of Bhawar Khad and Hara-Majah receive about 100 mm mean annual rainfall. The Integrated Watershed Management Programe is mainly designed for planning and management of land, water, and biomass resources with a sharp focus on social and institutional aspects beside biophysical ones.It aims to address the challenges of degradation of land resources, water scarcity, deforestation, and poverty in rainfed area of Dhar Kalan Block.

The project area is located in Nakoder, Shahkot Lohian Project No: 01 of Jalandhar Distt, of Punjab State. The one watershed project have been included in the project. The project no: 1 is located on South western side of Jalandhar District in Nakoder Tehsil. The project location starts about 15 Km from Jalandhar to Nakoder Road  on both sides of Jalandhar Nakoder Road and leads towards Malsianm Giderpindi Ferozpur road. The project is situated along the bank of both sides of Chittti Bain drain SLJL009. The Project starts from Village Pandori Rajputan etc., east side of Tehsil Nakoder and stretches about 25 Km along the drain towards Madala, Gidderpindi with treatable area  4334.1 Hac.

The area of Project IWMP Jalandhar II is located north-east of Phillaur town  and is situated on Phillaur- Nawanshar Road and falls in the villages Gahra, Tehang, Saijabad, Nurewal, Bachowal and represented by watershed code Phillaur SLJL0010 with treatable area of 800 Hac 

The project area is located in the Shivalik foot hills of the Punjab state and covered under Nawansher district and Saroya block of Balacaur Tehsil. The location of Project area and micro-watersheds is shown in the map. The project area was drawn from Survey of India topo-sheet No53 A/8 and 53A/4. 

The project area is located in the Shivalik foot hills of the Punjab state and covered under Balachaur Block of Nawansher district. The area starts from Kathgarh right upto the hills and then extends along the hills to Malewal village. The location of Project area and micro-watersheds is shown in the map. The project area maps were drawn from Survey of India topo-sheet No 53 A/8 and 53A/4. The latitude varies from 31^o-10’ to 31^o-15’ and longitude from 76^o-15’ to 76^o-18’.Two sub- watersheds of Nawanshehr district were selected for funding support by submitting a Preliminary Project Report to the DLR through SLNA. This was approved and then DPR work was awarted to the Society for Promotion and Conservation of Environment Chandigarh. Separate DPRs have been prepared for each sub-watershed.This report covers Nawanshehr IWMP-II/10-11.

An area of 4050ha is proposed for treatment under IWMP Bhunerheri II batch 2012-13 at a total cost of Rs 486 lakhs covering 39 villages of Bhunerheri block of Patiala district. Theses villages are located mostly on the left bank of Ghaggar River.The villages are mostly flood plain of Ghaggar River which enter the project area near Ghanaur and grow the boundary of Ghanaur and Bhunarheri block.The Bhakhra main line flows north to south and canal crosses the river through a due (conduit) near Ghanaur.Ghuram distributory takes off from the BML near village Surala Kala and irrigate major part of block A of the project area.Haryana State boundary ingress the area near village Tiwana and Tasalpur.Patiala, Rajpura & Ambala are almost equidistant from Block A

Area is divided into 3 blocks and block A- includes the village Tiwana, Tasalpur, Marhu, Naurangwala, Sarkapra, Khalispur, Pur and Arnauli which is surrounded by Ghaggar River on north-west and Haryana boundary on south and south west.