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Baart sarkar
Government of India
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Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

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2019-20

sardar saraovar (nama-da)

piryaaojanaa (gaujarat)
 35th Monitoring report under AIBP and CADWM : Year 2019-20
Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project (Gujarat)

Monitoring Directorate
Narmada and Tapi Bhawan
Sector 10A, Gandhinagar
Januar 2020

CONTENTS
Section Particulars Page No

Previous visits of Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project by CWC officers 1

under AIBP/CADWM
Part-I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.0 Sardar Sarovar Project 3
2.0 Organisational and Management Aspects 4
3.0 Progress of AIBP components 5
4.0 Progress of CADWM components 6
5.0 Issues in Focus 7
6.0 Overall Assessment Regarding Project Completion 10
Part-II MONITORING REPORT-AIBP
1.0 Project Components as being executed 12
2.0 Change in Scope, if any 15
3.0 Organization Set Up for the project 15
4.0 Contractual Arrangements 16
5.0 Construction Planning & Scheduling 17
6.0 Quality Assessment 18
7.0 Land Acquisition and R&R 20
8.0 Environmental and Forest Clearance 20
9.0 Techno-Economic Appraisal 21
10.0 External Assistance 21
11.0 Estimated Cost 21
12.0 Physical Programme & Progress of the whole project 21
13.0 Project components as being executed under AIBP 22
14.0 Field visits 30
15.0 Project Potential 45
 16.0 Financial Programme & Progress 46
17.0 Financial management 49
18.0 Monitoring of Project at State/Project Level 49
19.0 Points needing attention 50
20.0 Bottlenecks in Implementation of Project components under AIBP 54
21.0 Compliance Report to CWC Observations contained in the previous 32nd 56
Status Report
PART-III MONITORING REPORT - CADWM
1.0 Project Summary 57
2.0 Structural Interventions as being executed 59
3.0 Non- Structural Interventions as being executed 60
4.0 Changes in Scope, if any 60
5.0 Organizational set up for the Project- 61
6.0 Overall Assessment regarding project completion 61
7.0 Contractual Arrangements 62
8.0 Construction Planning and Scheduling 62
9.0 Progress of structural interventions - Field Visit 63
10.0 Field Visits 63
11.0 Quality Assessment 65
12.0 Progress of Non- structural interventions 66
13.0 Status of Micro Irrigation Development 67
14.0 Financial programme and Progress 67
15.0 Points Needing Attentions 68
16.0 Bottlenecks 75
17.0 Compliance of CWC Observations contained in the 33rd and 34th Status 75
report
PART-IV ANNEXURES
I Project Details and Salient Features of the Project 77

II(a) Status of Land Acquisition 82

II(b) Status of R&R activities 83

III Physical progress of works, as at the end of August-2019 86

IV(a) Quarterly physical progress of works as against the programme 89

IV(b) Bar chart for Physical Progress/ achievement of Canal Network 91

VA Year-wise Irrigation potential created and utilized 92

VB Branch wise details of IP Created and IP Utilised 93

VI Quarterly financial progress of works as against the programme 95

 VII Bar chart for Financial Progress/ achievement of Canal Network 96
PART-V PLATES

1 Layout of the Project 97

2 Canal System of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project 98

3 Status of Canal System-Phase-I 99

4 Status of Canal System-Phase-IIA 100

5 Saurashtra Branch Canal & its Network 101

6 Status of Canal System-Phase-IIB 102

7 Status of Canal System- Phase-IIC 103

8 Command Area under Kachchh Branch Canal 104

9 Strip diagram of KBC 105

10 Bar chart showing detail of Hurdles in distribution KBC 108

PREVIOUS VISITS OF SARDAR SAROVAR (NARMADA)
PROJECT BY CWC OFFICERS UNDER AIBP/CADWM

Sr Date of Visit Visiting officers Year Status Report

No Published
1 19-21 March 1997 Manohar Singh, Director 1996-97 Apr-97
2 12-14 Oct 1998 V VBadrinarayana, CE NTBO 1997-98 Oct-98
M R Verma, Director(M&A)
3 26-28 May 1999 P B Patel, Director 1999-00 May-99
V K Midha, Deputy Director
4 24-27 Nov 1999 P B Patel, Director 1999-00 Nov-99
5 22-25 May 2000 P B Patel, Director 2000-01 May-00
V K Midha, Deputy Director
6 14-17 Nov 2000 R B L Tiwari, CE NTBO 2000-01 Nov-00
P B Patel, Director
K L B Jivnani, Depty Director
7 31 May, 1 June and 6 R B L Tiwari, CE NTBO 2001-02 Jun-01
June 2001 P B Patel, Director,
A Mazumdar, Asst Director
8 7-9 Nov 2001 R B L Tiwari, CE NTBO 2001-02 Nov-01
P B Patel, Director,
K D Chokshi, SE HOC
A Mazumdar, Asst Director

9 16-17 July 2002 Y P Singh, Director 2002-03 Jul-02

A Mazumdar, Asst Director
10 28-29 Nov 2002 T P Singh, CE NTBO, 2002-03 Nov-02
Y P Singh, Director
A Mazumdar, Asst Director
11 16-17 Jan 2003 T P Singh, CE NTBO, 2002-03 Jan-03
Y P Singh, Director
S C Singhal, Deputy Director
A Mazumdar, Asst Director

12 24-26 April 2003 T P Singh, CE NTBO, 2003-04 Apr-03

Y P Singh, Director
S C Singhal, Deputy Director
A Mazumdar, Asst Director
13 27-28June 2003 Y P Singh, Director 2003-04 Jun-03
S C Singhal, Deputy Director
14 21-22 Nov 2003 Y P Singh, Director 2003-04 Nov-03
A Mazumdar, Asst Director
15 16-17 Feb 2004 Y P Singh, Director 2003-04 Feb-04
A Mazumdar, Asst Director
16 21-22 May 2004 T P Singh, CE NTBO, 2004-05 May-04
Y P Singh, Director
S C Singhal, Deputy Director
17 18-19 Jan 2005 T P Singh, CE NTBO 2004-05 Jan-05
N Subba, Rao Director
S C Singhal, Deputy Director
18 31 Jan 2007 & 22 Feb Chetan Pandit, Chief Engineer 2006-07 Apr-07
2007 N Subba Rao, Director
 Aditya Sharma, Deputy
Director
19 24-26 Oct 2007 & 16- A B Pandya, Director 2007-08 Mar-08
18 Jan 2008 Aditya Sharma, Deputy
Director
20 17-18 Dec 2008 A B Pandya, Director 2008-09 Mar-09
Y S Varshney, Deputy Director
21 25-26 March 2010 Y S Varshney, Deputy Director 2009-10 Feb-11
H C Rathore, Asst Director
22 6-8 Sept 2010 Shakti Sarraf, Director, 2010-11 Sep-11
Y S Varshney, Deputy Director
H C Rathore, Asst Director
23 22-23 Dec 2011 D K Tiwari, Director 2011-12 Jan-12
24 28-29 April 2012 Sudiksha Rani, Deputy 2012-13 Aug-12
Director
25 6-8 Nov 2012 Rishi Shrivastav, Director 2012-13 Jan-13
26 17-18 April 2013 Rishi Shrivastav, Director 2013-14 Jan-14
27 10-12 Feb 2015 M W Paunikar, Director 2014-15 Jul-15
28 16-17 Feb 2016 Y S Varshney, Director 2015-16 Aug-16
29 25-26 Oct 2016 Y S Varshney, Director 2016-17 Apr-17
Naveen Kumar Sharma, Asst
Director
30 21-23 Feb 2017 Y S Varshney, Director 2016-17 Aug-17
B N Prusty, Deputy Director
31 21-23 Aug 2017 Y S Varshney, Director 2017-18 Feb-18
B N Prusty, Deputy Director
32 20-23 Feb 2018 Y S Varshney, Director 2018-19 Dec-18
B N Prusty, Deputy Director
33 25-28 Sept 2018 D S Chaskar, Director 2018-19 Apr-19
B N Prusty, Deputy Director
34 12-15 March 2019 D S Chaskar, Director 2018-19 Sep-19
B N Prusty, Deputy Director
35 04-06 September 2019 Kushagra Sharma, Director 2019-20 Jan-20
Amitabh Meena, Dy. Director
Part I
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.0 Sardar Sarovar Project

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project (SSP) with Gross Storage Capacity of 9497.95 MCM (7.7
MAF) and Live storage Capacity of 5822.12 MCM (4.72 MAF) is a major multipurpose
project with a concrete gravity dam across river Narmada near village Navagam and two
power houses (dam toe & canal head). It has a vast canal system spread in two States, viz.
Gujarat and Rajasthan. The installed power capacity is 1450 MW and annual irrigation of
17.92 lakh ha in Gujarat and 73,157 ha in Rajasthan. Govt of Rajasthan has recently revised
area of irrigation and according to it, Narmada Main Canal in Rajasthan now caters to 2.46
lakh ha Culturable command Area. The project would meet drinking water needs of 9490
villages and 173 urban centres in Gujarat and 124 villages in Rajasthan around the irrigation
canal. The total cost of the project at 2008-09 price level as approved by Planning
Commission in May, 2010 was Rs 39240.40 crore. The latest estimated cost of the project at
2014-15 price level as approved by TAC of MoWR, RD&GR in July, 2016 is Rs 54772.94
crore with details as per Table1.
 Table 1: Component-wise cost of SSP
S.No. Particulars Cost Rs (crore)
1 Unit-I (Dam) 6709.80
2 Unit-II A (Main Canal) 6695.04
3 Unit-II B (Branch and Distribution System) 37731.17
4 Unit-III 3636.93
TOTAL 54772.94

Project details and Salient features of the project are given in Annexure-I.

Investigations for SSP started in the year 1980 as per the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal
Award in December, 1979. The work on main dam of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project was
started in 1988. The work of two power houses was completed by June-2006. The
construction of main dam and installation of spillway gates was completed in March
2017.The entire Narmada main canal work has also been completed. The full length of the
main canal is lined to avoid water loss & water logging. The gates of SSP were closed on
17.06.2017 after approval of Narmada Control Authority in its meeting dated 16.06.2017.
The dam was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister of India on 17th September 2017. Due
to huge inflow on account of heavy rain in the catchment area during Monsoon 2019, the
Sardar Sarovar Reservoir was filled stage wise and safely upto FRL i.e 138.68 m on
15.09.2019.

MoWR, RD & GR, New Delhi in 2016 identified 99 projects under AIBP as priority-I,
Priority-II and Priority-III projects according to their target date of completion. The Sardar
Sarovar Project has been included in the list as Priority-III project with the completion of
works by the end of December, 2019.

2.0 Organisational and Management Aspects

The project is being executed by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited, a wholly owned
undertaking of the Govt. of Gujarat. The organizational chart is shown below in figure 1: -

CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR

JT. M.D.
(ADM) DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR EXE.DIR.
C.G.M.(L&A) APCCF
(CAD) (CIVIL) (CANALS) (AGRI.)

CGM (TECH & COOR) CE (CPC) CE (QC)

 Figure1: Organizational Set-up of SSNNL

3.0 Progress of AIBP Component

3.1 Physical progress

Irrigation potential creation of 16.64 lakh ha as against total of 17.92 lakh ha has been
achieved till August, 2019 out of which 10.673 lakh ha is reported utilized during water year
2018-19 (July-2018 to June-2019).

The Physical progress of works, including those not covered under AIBP, as at the end of
August 2019 is given at Annexure-III. Quarterly physical progress of works under AIBP as
against the programme envisaged by the executing agency is appended in Annexure-IV (a)
and bar charts for physical progress of Canal system are enclosed at Annexure-IV(b). Year-
wise Irrigation potential created and utilized is given in Annexure-VA while the branch wise
status of IP created and IP utilized is annexed at Annexure-VB.

The physical progress achieved upto August-2019 is as per the following table:

Table2: Physical progress achieved upto August-2019

(Length in Kms)
Sr no Description of Total Completed length up Percentage
Canal Length to August-2019 completion
1 Main Canal 458.32 458.32 as on July’16 100
2 Branch Canal 2730.46 2625.602 96.15
3 Distributary 4569.41 4366.144 95.55
4 Minors 15669.94 14043.287 89.61
5 Sub minors 48319.936 39803.658 82.37

3.2 Financial progress

The cumulative CLA/ CA under AIBP is Rs 12211.884 crore and cumulative expenditure on
AIBP works is Rs 28744.731 crore upto August-2019.

3.2.1 Expenditure

As per the MoU (2015-16), the total financial requirements for completing the canal network
upto Minor is Rs. 8254.36 crore after March, 2012. However, as per revised estimate at Price
Level 2014-15, the total financial requirement at the end of March 2016 is Rs 9873.264 crore
for completing the canal system under AIBP. As per the revised MoU-2017, the balance cost
is Rs 9873.264 crore with 4,65,160 ha creation of Irrigation Potential.

A summary of Financial Progress up to March-2019 for the components under AIBP is given
in Table 3.
 Table 3: Expenditure under AIBP (Since 1996)
(Rs. In crore)
Sr. Item Components Total Expenditure Cumulative
No Expenditur during 2019- Expenditure
e (up to 20 (up to (up to
Mar- August- August-
2019) 2019) 2019)
1. Works Unit – II Main Canal 28286.646 458.085 28744.731
Unit – Branch Canal
IV &
Distribution
System
2. Establishmen Main Canal and Branch 3348.781 65.248 3414.029
t Canal & Distribution
(Unit – II & IV) System

Grand Total 31635.427 523.333 32158.76

Quarterly financial progress of works as against the balance cost and the programme
envisaged by the executing agency for the year 2019-20 is appended in Annexure-VI.

3.2.2 Central Assistance

Central Assistance or Central Loan Assistance under AIBP started from the financial year
1996-97. During financial years 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05, the Project received
assistance under Fast Track component also. No release could be made in the year 2008-09 as
the proposal for 2008-09 was received from the State in the end of the financial year and the
observations/comments conveyed by Mon. Dte., CWC, Gandhinagar could not be complied
with by the State in time. Also, no CA was provided during year 2009-10 because revised
cost estimate was not approved and revised investment clearance by the Planning
Commission could not be received by the project. Total CA/CLA was received by the project
upto March, 2019 is 12,211.88 crore under AIBP. 1 st instalment of CA amounting to Rs
483.54 crore has been recommended for the FY 2019-20 vide Monitoring Directorate, CWC,
Gandhinagar letter dated 23/10/19.

4.0 Progress of CADWM Component:

4.1 Physical progress: -

Total command area for the project is 17.92 lakh ha, out of which 14.89 lakh ha CCA is
developed upto July, 2019 by completing the sub minor works. The remaining CADWM
works
will be completed in a phased manner by 2020-21.

The completed length of sub-minors in the form of open field channel is 10216.92 km. In
2014-15 it was decided to develop command area by adopting UGPL. The completed length
of sub-minors in the form of UGPL is 29586.738 km upto August, 2019. The length of UGPL
laid in 2019-20 upto August 2019 is 356.252 km.

4.2 Financial progress

The Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project received Central Assistance under CADWM
programme from FY 2004-05 to FY 2005-06 and thereafter from FY 2010-11 to FY 2012-13.
The cumulative CA released upto March 2018 is Rs1832.2879 crore and cumulative
expenditure is Rs 4554.778 crore under CADWM. The CA of Rs 224.19 crore and Rs. 122.85
crore has been sanctioned by the MoWR, RD & GR on 24-12-2018 and 22-03-2019
respectively during 2018-19.

4.2.1 Expenditure

The total expenditure under CADWM at the end of March 2015 was Rs 803.414 crore.
Expenditure incurred in 2015-16 and 2016-17 was Rs 2526.634 crore during period of
revised MoU signed in March 2016. Therefore, the total expenditure under CADWM at the
end of March 2017 is Rs 3330.08 crore. Total budgetary provision made for CADWM works
is Rs 1298.15 crore in the financial year 2018-19. The expenditure incurred in the FY 2018-
19 is Rs 861.68 crore under CADWM works.

4.2.2 Central Assistance

The Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project received Central Assistance under CADWM
programme from FY 2004-05 to FY 2005-06, from FY 2010-11 to FY 2012-13 and thereafter
from 2015-16 to 2016-17. Total CA/CLA was received by the project upto March, 2018 is
Rs. 1832.2879 crore under CADWM. The CA of Rs 224.19 crore and Rs. 122.85 crore has
been sanctioned by the MoWR, RD & GR on 24.12.2018 and 22.03.2019 respectively during
2018-19.

5.0 Issues in Focus

5.1 Irrigation Potential Creation

The Project had created Irrigation Potential of 12,96,840 ha up to March 2016. The balance
IP of 4,95,160 ha was to be created during the proposed MoU period i.e. 2016-17 to 2018-19.
As per proposed MoU 1,65,000 ha IP was to be created during the year 2016-17 out of which
1,16,459 ha IP was created. The IP created during the year 2017-18 was 1,26,378 ha as
against target of 1,65,000 ha. It is obvious that creation of Irrigation potential is slow as
against targeted IP creation with respect to proposal of 2016-17 and current MoU. The IP
created during 2018-19 is 98,635 hectares. Irrigation Potential Created upto 2018-19 is 16.38
lakh ha. However, Irrigation Potential Utilized is only 10.66 lakh ha (65.07 % of Potential
Created). The IP created during 2019-20 (till August-2019) is 26,202 hectares.

It is essential to increase the pace of work to achieve the target of IP creation in the year
2019-20. The reasons for slow pace of works vis-a-vis the targets as per current MOU may be
intimated for the year 2018-19 & 2019-20.

5.2 Irrigation Potential Utilization

Out of total proposed IP creation of 17.92 lakh ha, it is seen that up to August 2019, IP
Created is 16.64 lakh ha. However, Irrigation Potential Utilized is only 10.673 lakh ha (64.14
% of Potential Created) for the water year 2018-19 (from July-2018 to June-2019). It is
suggested that all out integrated efforts need to be made to minimize the gap between
Potential Created and Potential Utilized. Various measures undertaken for reducing the gap
between IP Created and IP Utilized may be intimated.

5.3 Land Acquisition

As reported, the land acquisition of 51345.22 ha is completed out of 52364.29 ha of private

land in canal system for phase I & II. It is also reported that 5701.722 ha Govt. land and
673.76 ha Forest land has been acquired as against target of 5828.21ha Govt. land and 677.22
ha Forest land in the canal system of the project. It is necessary to ensure that minor gaps left
in various portions of canals, especially in Phase-I and Phase-II, including those left for
regulation works, crossings etc, are completed at the earliest. It is mentioned here that land
acquisition in the canal system was held up due to the lack of new rules for the Land
Acquisition Act-2016. However, after the framing of rules in Oct 2017, the acquisition
process is expected to speed up. Land acquisition issues particularly in the Kutch branch
Canal command area needs focused attention & efforts.

5.4 Command Area Development

As per the MoU of March 2016, pari-passu development of Command Area for 17.92 lakh ha
has been planned to be completed by December 2019. Command area of 1230 ha has been
developed during FY 2019-20 (upto July 2019). Total command area developed upto July
2019 is 14,88,588 ha. Even though 16.64 lakh ha of IP has been created upto July 2019, the
CCA developed upto July 2019 is 14.89 lakh ha. As the IP utilization is significantly less than
the IP creation, all necessary measures need to be taken up to reduce the gap including the
works on CAD below minor.

5.5 Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM)

The State Government has enacted Participatory Irrigation Management Act in 2007. Total
number of WUA’s proposed to be registered is 4467, out of which 2743 WUA has been
formed and 2896 has been registered. At present 1136 Water User Associations (WUAs)
have taken over irrigation management in the project command.

It is observed that utilization of created potential is much less than IP created. In order to
increase utilization of created potential, pari-passu implementation of PIM is essential. It is
desirable that more & more WUAs are activated & encouraged to take-over maintenance of
the distribution network under them.

One of the important activities to establish and strengthen the water user association is the
infrastructure grant and functional grant. However, it is seen that till date not a single water
user association has been given the infrastructure grant, nor there are any standard norms for
construction of this office and the facilities that it can have. The progress of the project
authorities in this respect is NIL.

Functions of grant @ Rs.1200 per hectare is to be provided to the water user Association so
that they can start their work with this financial support. Till date the projected authorities
have not given any function grant to the water user associations. The progress on this aspect
is Nil. The central assistance is released during 17-18 and also 18-19 had the component for
functional grant as well as infrastructure grant, however the same has not yet been used at all
for releasing it to the water user associations.

It is essential that the items agreed as per the Memorandum of understanding are followed
strictly in respect of physical progress. Reasons for NIL progress may be informed.

5.6 Development of micro irrigation

The Memorandum of understanding has a provision for development of micro irrigation in

the command area at least for 10% of the total area. However, the progress on this component
is also very less. The work being done by GGRC in developing micro irrigation has been
provided as the progress in this respect. Decisive action needs to be taken in implementing
micro-irrigation as per the targets given in MoU.

5.7 Monitoring of the work entrusted to the NGOs

The project authority has entrusted the work of strengthening of the water user associations to
Non-governmental organizations. At many places even the water user Association has been
formed, however, on ground little work is done by the water user Association and in many
places the associations are defunct. It is important that the Non-governmental organizations
deliver on the mandate given to them. For this to happen, the project authorities need to
monitor the work of the NGOs very closely on a periodical basis with strict time table for the
various activities.

5.8 Discrepancies in the MIS system

It is seen that there is a large discrepancy between the progress reported through quarterly
reports and the progress entered into the management information system (MIS). the issue
has been raised number of times however the discrepancy still persists. It is important that the
physical progress as submitted to this office and physical progress as entered into the MIS
system are perfectly in coherence with each other. The project authorities may take necessary
action and correct the discrepancies in shortest duration of time.

5.9 Improper maintenance of the infrastructure created

During the visit, it is seen that at many places the canal network was in a dilapidated
condition. The project authorities
informed that the contractor is supposed
to provide the Maintenance Services for
the period of five years from the date of
completion of the work. However, it is
seen that the agency has not been doing
the maintenance work regularly and there
are many patches of the canal lining
which are been damaged but not repaired.

6.0 Overall Assessment Regarding Project Completion

The Project has created Irrigation Potential

of 16,64,514 ha upto August 2019 as
against ultimate target potential creation of
17.92 lakhs ha. Thus, it has achieved
92.89% of target potential. As per revised
MoU, the project has to be completed by
the end of December 2019. There are some
bottlenecks to achieve the targets in time such as, LAQ problems, utility crossings, poor
performance of some agencies etc. These problems are required to be addressed suitably.
Project needs to gear its technical wings to accelerate the progress with zero time overrun
policy to accrue its benefits. Due to localized bottlenecks in execution, gaps have been left in
the canal networks which have curtailed the Potential Creation achievements. By completing
the left-over works in the gaps and selection of competent agencies capable of executing
works without any time overrun, SSNNL can ensure the achievement of balance Potential
Creation. It is suggested to speed up the pace of work and efforts should be made to complete
the project before stipulated time to cater the benefits of project at the earliest

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Part II
MONITORING REPORT- AIBP

1.0 Project Components as being executed

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project (SSP) with Gross Storage Capacity of 9497.95 MCM (7.7
MAF) and Live storage Capacity of 5822.12 MCM (4.72 MAF) is an inter-state multipurpose

project located in Narmada District, Garudeshwar Taluka of Gujarat, 5.63 km upstream of

Navagam village. A layout Plan of the project is shown in Plate-1. The project would provide
annual irrigation 17.92 lakh ha in Gujarat and 2.46 lakh ha in Rajasthan. Also, special
allocation of 0.86 MAF has been made for providing drinking water to 173 urban centres and
9490 villages covering current population of 18 million. Hydro power benefits are to the tune
of 1450 MW through 6x200 MW river bed power house and 5x50 MW through canal head
power house. Project also provides incidental flood protection. The project consists of
following components.

 A concrete gravity dam across river Narmada with a gross storage capacity of
7.7 million acre-feet (MAF) and a live storage capacity of 4.73 MAF with central
spillway to pass a design discharge of 87000 cumecs.
 Narmada Main canal 458 km long upto Gujarat-Rajasthan State border with
the capacity at the head as 1133 cumecs tapering down to 75 cumecs at Gujarat-
Rajasthan State Border. Thereafter, the canal enters Rajasthan (73 km) to provide
irrigation to about 2.46 lakh ha.
 A river bed power house comprising of 6 units of 200 MW each.
 Canal head power house on the right bank comprising 5 units of 50 MW each.
 4 No's of natural ponds for regulation of release from canal head power house
into main canal.
 There are 38 Branch / Sub-branch canals with total length of 2730.585 km off
taking from the Narmada Main Canal. There are several distributaries and minors/sub-
minors having total length of 4569.41 km and 63989.876 km respectively. Irrigation
benefits under the project are as follows:
 CCA 17.92 lakh ha in Gujarat
 Benefit Cost Ratio1.26 (latest as per approved RCE PL 2014-15)

Complete canal system of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Project is shown in Plate-2.

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project, Gujarat has been under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit
Programme (AIBP) since 1996-97. Central Water Commission has been entrusted with the
monitoring of the project under the programme. The First Monitoring Report of the Project
was brought out in January 1997. This is the 35th Monitoring Report prepared by Monitoring
Directorate, CWC, Gandhinagar. Project details and salient features of the Project are given
in Annexure-I.

Inter State Aspects- NWDT Award

The Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) was constituted in October 1969 to
adjudicate upon the dispute regarding sharing of the Narmada waters amongst the States of
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The NWDT gave its Award in
December 1979. The Tribunal assessed the utilizable quantum of the Narmada water at the
SSP Dam site at 75% dependability as 28 MAF (34536 Mm 3) and gave its decision regarding
apportionment of water among the party States, as shown below in Table 1.

Table 1: Water & Power share of co-basin states of Narmada basin

State Water Share (Mm3) Share in % Share of Power
from SSP
(MCM) (1450 MW) in %
Madhya Pradesh 22511 65.18 57

Gujarat 11101 32.14 16

 Rajasthan 616 1.79 -
Maharashtra 308 0.89 27
TOTAL 34536 0 100

The above apportionment relates to actual withdrawals by party States and not consumptive
use. It was also decided that within their share of water, each party State is free to make
changes in the pattern of water use and in the areas to be benefited within or outside the
Narmada basin in its territory. As per the basin planning recommended by the NWDT, 30
major dams are to be constructed in Narmada basin up to SSP apart from a number of
medium and minor schemes.

The water allocated and utilized by co-basin States during the hydrologic year 2016-17 as
taken from NCA annual water account for the year 2016-17 and observed flow at
Garudeshwar as taken from Water Year Book, NBO, Bhopal are given in Table 2.

Table 2: Narmada water utilization status during 2016-17

Sl. State Share of utilizable flow Actual Observed flow at
N among party States in Withdrawals Garudeshwar
o 2016-17 during 2016-17 during 2016-17
MCM % MCM % MCM %

1 M. P. 26748 65.18 10073 43.30

2 Gujarat 13191 32.14 12521 53.83
3 Maharashtr 366 0.89 - -
a
4 Rajasthan 733 1.79 668 2.87
TOTAL 41038 100.00 23262 100 6500 22.28
Note 1: As per annual water account for the year 2016-17, NCA, Indore, for Hydrologic year 2016-17
published in NCA annual Report 2016-17
2: As given in Water year Book 2016-17, NBO, CWC, Bhopal.

Figure1:Water& Power share of co-basin states of Narmada basin (%)

2.0 Change in scope, if any

 There is no change in scope of the project.

3.0 Organizational set-up for the project:

The project is being executed by Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited, a wholly owned
enterprise of the Govt. of Gujarat. The organizational chart is shown in Figure 3

MANAGING DIRECTOR

JT. M.D.
(ADM) DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR EXE.DIR.
C.G.M.(L&A) APCCF
(CAD) (CIVIL) (CANALS) (AGRI.)

CGM (TECH &

COOR) CE (CPC) CE (QC)

DIRECTOR (CANALS)

DGM-4 (Main DGM-1 C.E.

C.E. C.E. (NMC-
Canal) (Main Canal) Ch. 0 (DAM &
(ELEC.& 0 TO 144 km)
to 144 km VADODARA)
MECH)
GM (H.P.)-P
DGM DGM DGM
(NARMADA) (SOU-1) (SOU-2)
DGM (HP)

DIRECTOR (CAD)

C.E.(S.B.C.) C.E. C.E. C.E. CE GM

C.E.
RAJKOT (NMC)-P (GANDHIDHAM) (Design)-P (E&M)-P (PIM)
(AHMEDABAD)
RAJKOT )

DGM-1 DGM-3 DGM-2 DGM-4

(Main Canal) (Main Canal) GM (HP) (Main Canal) (Main Canal)- P
Ch. 144 to 293
km

DIRECTOR (CIVIL)

C.E. C.E. CE (PATAN) CE

(MEHSANA) (MAIN CANAL)-P (DESIGN)-P

DGM DGM
(CANAL-2) (CANAL-4)
 Figure3: Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited-Organization
4.0 Contractual arrangements

The SSNNL has formed a Central Procurement Cell (CPC) for procurement of works above
Rs. 3.00 crore. All tenders costing more than Rs. 3.00 crore are invited, evaluated and
approved at Nigam level. Letter of Acceptance cum work order is issued by the CPC at
Nigam level. Due to Centralized procedure for award of work, there is huge saving of time
and award of works can be made in a very short time after receipt of tenders.

SSNNL has approved Model Tender Papers on the basis of which concerned Chief Engineers
are given power to approve Draft Tender Proposal (DTP) of all item rate tenders. The powers
for approval of tenders are also given to the field officers and Chief Engineer is competent to
approve tenders up to Rs. 3.00 crore

As per, the details furnished by the Government authorities, the prevailing policy of the
Government of Gujarat is that all tenders above Rs. 5.00 lakh are invited online. In the item
rate tenders of civil works, technical pre-qualification is required for works costing more than
Rs. 2.00 crore, tenders costing up to Rs. 3.00 crore are approved by the concerned Executive
Engineer, Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer as power delegated by Board of
Directors (BoD). Tenders costing Rs. 3.00 to 5.00 crore are approved by the concerned
Directors of works. Tenders costing Rs. 5.00 to 10.00 crore are approved by the Managing
Director, SSNNL. For tenders costing Rs. 10.00 to 25.00 crore, SSNNL has constituted a
Project Committee of Directors, which includes Additional Chief Secretary (Finance Dept.),
Secretary (Narmada), Managing Director (SSNNL), concerned Directors as well as other
Directors.

All tenders costing more than Rs. 25.00 crore are approved by the Purchase and Tenders
committee which is the State Level highest authority. The Committee is composed of
Chairman (SSNNL), Managing Director (SSNNL), Additional Chief Secretary (Finance
Dept.). The Secretary (Narmada) and Technical Advisor to Honourable Chief Minister is
special invitee of this committee.

For evaluation of the tenders, technical bid and price bid, a Technical Evaluation Committee
has been formed. The Committee includes Chief Engineer (CPC) as its convener and
Financial Advisor (SSNNL), concerned Chief Engineer of work, concerned Superintending
Engineer of work and Deputy General Manager as its members. All tenders costing more
than Rs. 3.00 crore are scrutinized by this committee and recommendation of this committee
are put before the competent authorities for approval.

During the Financial year 2019-20 (upto August-2019), 7 Nos. tenders amounting to Rs.
78.29 crores have been approved.

5.0 Construction Planning & Scheduling

As per earlier MoU, signed in October-2012 between the then MoWR, RD&GR, Govt. of
India and Govt. of Gujarat under the AIBP scheme, the total cost of AIBP component is taken
as 20,718.17 crore at the price level of 2008-09. Progress achieved till March 2012 was
accounted for while fixing targets under the MoU-2012. Till March 2012, the expenditure on
the canal system is Rs. 12,463.81 crore on works and a potential of 5,45,276 ha was already
created thus leaving a net IP of 12,46,724 ha for further creation. Under the MoU, MoWR,
RD & GR, GoI agreed to extend Central Assistance to cover the full balance cost of Rs
8,254.36 crore for the completion of ongoing canal system of Sardar Sarovar Irrigation
Project in a period of four financial years from 2012-13 to 2015-16 subject to conditions
mentioned in the MoU. The MoU was revised in March-2014. It included pari-passu
implementation of CADWM as per the modified AIBP Guidelines effective from October-
2013.

Revised Cost Estimate of the SSP at 2014-15 price level was approved by the TAC of
MoWR, RD&GR, Govt. of India, New Delhi in its 129 th meeting held on 08.07.2016 in
which cost of AIBP components was Rs 31,522.33 crore. The expenditure incurred on AIBP
component was Rs. 21,649.066 crore as on March 2016 with IP creation of 12,96,840 ha.

Later, Sardar Sarovar Project was included under 99 prioritized projects by MoWR, RD &
GR under PMKSY scheme with target date of completion of works upto December, 2019.

After approval of the revised cost estimate, a revised MoU, between the MoWR, RD&GR,
GoI and the GoG have been signed. The MOU envisages completion of work by December
2019. Under AIBP, having balance cost of Rs. 9873.264 crore with creation of 4,95,160 ha
Irrigation Potential. Project authority can avail Central Assistance amounting to Rs.
4,797.511 crore for remaining canal network works upto minor till completion. (i.e. 2016-17
to 2018-19). The balance cost of Rs.5,075.75 crore is to be borne by State Government along
with further cost escalation. The planning of execution of AIBP works as per revised MoU is
as given below in Table3: -

Table 3: Physical and Financial planning for works under AIBP as per MoU
 Sr.No. Year IP creation IP utilization Expenditure
(ha ) (ha) ( Rs. in Cr)

1 Till 2015-16 12,96,840 4,50,475 21649.066

2 2016-17 1,65,000 3,94,910 3093.465
3 2017-18 1,65,000 2,94,037 3226.78
4 2018-19 1,65,160 1,01,445 3553.019
5 2019-20 0 1,03,133 0
Total: 17,92,000 13,44,000 31522.33

6.0 Quality assessment

Quality Control laboratories are set up at Kevadiya Colony, Bodeli, Bharuch, Karjan, Sanad,
Mehsana, Limbdi, Dhandhuka, Botad, Dhraghdhra, Radhanpur, Chansma, Harij&Tharad.
The details of quality control are given as under:

6.1 Organisation set up for quality control

Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd has set up a post of Chief Engineer (Quality Control)
working directly under Managing Director, SSNNL. At present, two Quality control Circles
headed by the Superintending Engineers are working. Superintending Engineer, Quality
Control-I working at Gandhinagar to look after the works of NMC from Ch. 144 to 263 km
including Saurashtra Branch Canal. Superintending Engineer, Quality Control-II working at
Ahmedabad to look after the works of NMC beyond Ch. 263 km. Superintending Engineer
N.P. Design (Dam & Hydro Power) working at Vadodara is given additional charge to look
after the work of quality control from Ch. 0 to 144 km of NMC. There is one enquiry unit
headed by the Executive Engineer working directly under the Chief Engineer (QC). All
preliminary inquiries are carried out by this Unit. There is one Division office headed by the
Executive Engineer at Surendranagar for looking after quality control of civil works of Kutch
Branch Canal Pumping Stations & Power stations and Saurashtra Branch Canal Pumping
Stations & Power stations.

The organizational set up of above referred two QC circles is shown in Figure 4.

 CHIEF ENGINEER. (Q.C.)
GANDHINAGAR

S.E. QUALITY CONTROL -1 S.E. QUALITY CONTROL -2 E.E. QC Dn. No.2

E.E. INQUIRY UNIT
Executive Engineer
GANDHINAGAR AHMEDABAD Surendranagar
GANDHINAGAR
Flying Squad-1
Dhranghadhra Executive Engineer
Flying Squad-3
Ahmedabad
3 DEE
Executive Engineer Executive Engineer
Flying Squad-2 Flying Squad-4
Limbdi Chansma

S.E.N.P. Design
(Dam & Hydro Power)
VADODARA

Figure 4 Organizational set up QC circles of Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd

A list of tests in quality control laboratories is given in Table 4

Table 4: List of tests in quality control laboratories
I. Soil testing (a) Grain size analysis
(b) Hydrometer test
(c) Atterberg limits
(d) Standard Proctor test
(e) Swelling Pressure test
(f) Field dry density test
II Fine aggregate (a) Gradation test
(b) Fineness Modulus
(c) Silt Content
III Coarse Aggregates (a) Gradation test
(b)Specific gravity and water absorption test
(c) Flakiness
(d) Impact test.
IV Bricks (a) Dimension & tolerance
(b) Water absorption
(c) Compressive strength &Effloresce
V Cement (a) Consistence
(b) Initial and Final setting time
(c) Fineness
(d) Compressive strength
(e) Soundness
VI uPVC pipes (a)Density Test
(b)Sulphated Ash Content test
There are two flying squads each under the Quality Control, Superintending Engineer Q.C.-I
& II to check quality of works. There is one inquiry Unit headed by the Executive Engineer
working directly under the Chief Engineer (QC). All preliminary inquiries are carried out by
this Unit. Also, one or more sub division offices of quality control are working directly under
each field Superintending Engineer depending upon the work load. Quality Control
laboratories are set up at Kevadiya Colony, Bharuch, Mehsana, Limbadi, Dhandhuka, Botad,
Dhraghdhra, Radhanpur, Chansma and Tharad with the testing facilities given in Table 3.
The quality control manual “The guidelines for quality assurance and quality control for
various canal works”, Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd, Gandhinagar, July, 1997 is being
followed to enforce quality control norms.

7.0 Land acquisition and Rehabilitation &Resettlement

7.1 Land acquisition

The 17982 ha of private land was required to be acquired for canal system under Phase-I, out
of which 17962 ha has already been acquired and 20 ha is yet to be acquired. Out of the total
1361 ha of Govt. land and 60.56 ha of forest land coming under Phase-I, 1361.26 ha of Govt.
land and 60.56 ha of forest land have been acquired. Similarly, for Phase-II, out of total
34382.52 ha of private land, 33382.81 ha has been acquired while out of the total 4466.95 ha
of Govt. land and 616.66 ha of forest land, 4340.46 ha of Govt. land and 613.20 ha of forest
land have been acquired. Remaining land is planned to be acquired on priority as per
procedure of Land Acquisition Act. It is mentioned here that land acquisition in the canal
system was held up due to the lack of new rules for the Land Acquisition Act-2016. The
detailed status of land acquisition of private, Govt. and forest land is shown in Annexure–II
(a).

7.2 Resettlement &Rehabilitation

In Sardar Sarovar Project the total number of families affected is 32538 which include 4763
families of Gujarat, 4179 families of Maharashtra and 23596 families of Madhya Pradesh.
Out of which, total 32538 PAFs were settled till March-2019. Number of families including
non-agricultural families to be resettled in Gujarat is 11049, all the families are settled.
However, it has been reported by project officers that no R&R issues are involved in the
canal system of the project under AIBP.

A summary of R&R activities in Gujarat is given at Annexure-II (b).

8.0 Environmental and Forest clearance

The project got environmental clearance with certain conditions. All conditions laid down in
the letter No. 3-87/80-I-A dated 24th June, 1987 and letter No. 8-372/83-FC dated 8 th
September, 1987 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest while according the
environmental clearance and the approval for diversion of forest land for this project
respectively are fully complied with. Independent machinery called Environment Sub Group
(ESG) was created by NCA to ensure that the environment safe guard measures are planned
and implemented pari-passu. All the environment related aspects are being monitored
regularly by NCA and ESG of NCA. The details are given by NCA in its Annual report.

9.0 Techno-economic appraisal

Initially, the Technical Advisory committee of MoWR in its 40 th meeting held on 13-07-1988
accepted the project proposal for Rs. 6406.04 crore (Price Level 1986-87) with BC ratio as
2.08.
Subsequently, the Technical Advisory committee of MOWR in its 103 rd meeting held on 11-
03-2010 accepted the project proposal for Rs. 39240.45 crore (Price Level 2008-09) with BC
ratio as 1.63 and recommended the same to the Planning Commission for revised investment
clearance. Planning Commission accorded investment clearance in May 2010. Latest revised
cost of the project Rs. 54772.94 crore at price level of 2014-15 with BC ratio 1.29 has been
approved by the TAC of MoWR, RD & GR in its 129 th TAC meeting held on 08.07.2016 at
New Delhi.

10.0 External Assistance

There is no foreign assistance to SSP in this year.

11.0 Estimated cost

The original estimated total cost of Sardar Sarovar Project as a whole, as approved by
Planning Commission was Rs. 6406.04 crore at 1986-87 price level. The revised estimated
cost of the project was Rs.39240.45 crore at 2008-09 price level as approved by the Planning
Commission and investment clearance was accorded vide letter No. 2 (194)/ 2010 WR Dated
20-5-2010 by Planning Commission. The latest revised estimated cost of Rs. 54772.94 crore
at price level 2014-15 was approved by TAC of MoWR in 129 th TAC meeting held on
08.07.2016 at New Delhi. As per revised estimated cost as concurred by the Central Water
Commission, cost of AIBP component is Rs 35330.19 crore (Rs 31522.33 crore Works + Rs
3809.86 crore Estt). The cost of CADWM component is Rs 7547.04 crore (Rs 6900.67 crore
works +Rs 646.37 crore Estt)

12.0 Physical Programme & Progress of the Whole Project

The detailed progress of various components information is given in the table as given below

Table 5: Detailed progress of various components

Sl. Item Unit Total Progress Program Achievement Likely
No estimated up to last for the during the date of
. Qty. year current year to the completi
March- year end of on
2019 August-2019

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A HEAD WORKS            
  Dam / barrage            
Earthwork  
  (i) Excavation Lcum 63.61 63.61   -
Complete
  (ii) Embankment Lcum        
d
  Masonary Lcum        
  Concrete Lcum 67.485 67.485 - -
  Gates Nos. 30 30 - -
B MAIN CANAL            
  Earthwork Lcum/ 2117.706 2117.706     Complete
Km. 458.32 458.32     d
  Lining Lcum/ 409.556 409.556    
Km 458.32 458.32    
Concrete LCM 52.333 52.333 -
  Structures Nos.        
C BRANCH CANAL            
  CANALS
Earthwork Lcum/ 2594.92 2509.95 84.97 14.29  
Km. 2730.585 2617.304 8.298  
Lining Lsm/ 577.45 559.59 17.86 1.51  
Km 2730.585 2617.304 8.298  
Concrete Lcum 59.07 55.57 3.50 1.27  
Structures Nos.          
D DISTRIBUTARIES            
&MINORS
  Earthwork Lcum/ 2042.14 1886.06 143.33 4.33  
Km. 20239.35  18235.992   - 173.44  
  Lining Lsm/ 592.26 515.83 51.02 1.08  
Km 20239.35  18235.992   - 173.44  
  Concrete Lcum 38.09 36.62 2.01 0.10  
  Masonry ThCM 324.02 319.99 -  
  Structures Nos.          
E SUB-MINOR Km 48319.936  39447.41 -  356.252  

The details of progress of major items are given at Annexure-III

13.0 Project components as being executed under AIBP

The works on Narmada Main Dam and Hydro Power Complex are already completed. The
components covered under AIBP include construction of main canal, branch canals and
distribution System. The entire canal system is divided in mainly two Phases as given below:

 Phase - I : from km 0 to km 144.5

 Phase - II : from km 144.5 to km 458.412
The Phase-II has been further divided in three reaches:
o Phase-II A: km 144.500 to km 263.165
o Phase-II B: km 263.165 to km 388.164
o Phase-II C: km 388.164 to km 458.412 (Gujarat-Rajasthan Border)

13.1 Status of works under Phase-I

The phase-I of Sardar Sarovar Project covers CCA of 4.47 lakh ha between rivers Narmada
and Mahi. The works of Phase-I covers Narmada Main canal from 0 to 144.5 km including
branch canals, distributaries and minors. The works of Narmada Main canal, branch canals
and distributaries have been completed and the some works of minors are under progress.
Potential created (upto 426.07 ha) under AIBP upto March-2019 along with planning for the
year 2019-20 is shown in Plate-3. The canal wise progress achieved up to August-2019 is
given in Table-6.

Table 6: Overall status of works under Phase-I

Sr Description of Total Total Length Completed Percentage
No Canal Nos (km) Length (km) completion
1 Main Canal 1 144.50 144.50 100

2 Branch canal 14 656.91 656.91 100

3 Distributaries 204 1101 1101 100

4 Minors 1285 4463.69 4287.614 96.05

A summary status of the Branch Canals with their distributaries under Phase-I upto August-
2019 is given in Table-7

Table 7: Summary status of the branch canal with their distributaries in Phase-I
(Length in kms)
Sr Name of Branch Branch Canal Comman Distributary Minor
N canal d covered
Total Status No Total Statu No Total Complete
o (ha)
Lengt Length s Length d
h as on
31.08.19
1 Wadia Br. Canal 3.65 Comp 9868 4 27.2 Comp 24 75.21 75.21
 2 Tilakwada Br. Canal 9.85 Comp 7202 3 15.48 Comp 24 60.7 60.7
3 Mandva Br. Canal 23.34 Comp 12701 9 27.68 Comp 30 115.79 115.79
4 Bhilodia Br. Canal 23.68 Comp 13031 3 22.09 Comp 31 124.68 124.67
5 Sankheda Br. Canal 0.09 Comp 7456 3 29.2 Comp 19 63.44 63.44
6 Miyagam Br. Canal 86.6 Comp 58895 22 143.54 Comp 160 606.30 576.53
  Por Br. Canal 14.95 Comp 8591 4 17.51 Comp 24 83.38 83.38
  Untiya Br. Canal 9.3 Comp 7333 3 25.315 Comp 27 53.45 53.45
  Luwara Br. Canal 67.2 Comp 55823 29 141.00 Comp 124 595.42 522.80
5
  Dora Br. Canal 15.615 Comp 14166 4 30.24 Comp 42 167.53 167.53
  Sayekha Br. Canal 7.56 Comp 8058 3 19.04 Comp 28 77.52 77.52
  Denwa Br. Canal 8.13 Comp 10230 3 22.68 Comp 31 94.96 94.96
  Amleshwar Br. 69.59 Comp 46194 23 138.42 Comp 186 502.17 469.59
Canal
  Sinor Br. Canal 4.45 Comp 3708 1 9.08 Comp 10 29.70 29.70
7 Gojali Br. Canal 3.9 Comp 10932 3 31.45 Comp 36 94.98 94.98
8 Vadodara Br. Canal 115.09 Comp 80227 44 216.81 Comp 225 775.13 745.31
5
  Kundhela Br. Canal 44.2 Comp 17143 8 27.9 Comp 51 186.26 186.26
  Jambusar Br. Canal 43.02 Comp 18559 8 35.02 Comp 45 133.85 129.73
9 Dena Br. Canal 11.831 Comp 10602 3 16.73 Comp 28 112.84 112.84
10 Dumad Br. Canal 6.937 Comp 6184 3 24.74 Comp 19 63.94 60.94
11 SakardaBr.Canal 35.135 Comp 17195 10 32.02 Comp 45 202.52 199.56
  Ranoli Br. Canal 30.32 Comp 8644 4 17.99 Comp 29 93.53 92.33
12 ZumakhaBr.Canal 3.08 Comp 3105 1 6.27 Comp 10 31.71 31.71
13 Nahra Br. Canal 4.1 Comp 5237 3 13.34 Comp 18 54.88 54.88
14 Desar Br.Canal 15.29 Comp 5525 3 10.315 Comp 19 63.8 63.8
  TOTAL 656.91 446609 20 1101.0 128 4463.6 4287.614
4 7 5 9

13.2 Status of work under Phase-II A and Saurashtra branch canal

The work of main canal, branch canal and distributaries up to NMC Chainage 263 km is
completed. The work of minors is in progress in phase-IIA. The length-wise progress,
excluding Saurashtra branch canal, is as given in Table 8. A summary status of the branch
canals with their distributaries under Phase-II is as given in Table 9.

Table 8: Overall status of works under Phase-II A.

(Length in kms)
Sr. Type of canal Total Total Completed length Percentage
No. Nos. length (km) (upto August-2019) Completio
(km.) n
1. Branch canals/ 9 354.555 354.555 100
Sub branch
canals
2. Distributaries 72 419.360 398.54 95.03
3. Minors 430 1697.706 1603.29 94.43
Table 9: Summary status of branch canals with their distributaries under Phase-IIA
(Length in kms)
Sr Name of Branch Canal Distributary Minor
No Branch Total Statu No Total Status No Total Complete
Canal Length s Length Length d length
as on
31.08.201
9
1 Sanali 11.43 Comp 5 8.472 Comp 14 60.747 60.747
2 Mahemdabad 13.925 Comp 5 23.56 Comp 25 147.067 147.067
3 Ghodasar 21.54 Comp 5 12.797 Comp 25 117.97 117.97
4 Vehlal 24.58 Comp 5 30.01 Comp 40 161.023 161.023
5 Daskroi 3.87 Comp 1 10.13 Comp 13 55.494 55.494
6 Dholka 72.46 Comp 16 103.768 Comp 97 283.513 282.503
Rajpur Sub 20.05 Comp 7 50.849 Comp 35 115.901 115.901
Branch
Koth Sub 22.06 Comp 5 10.455 Comp 24 79.46 79.46
Branch
7 Sanand 28.17 Comp 9 73.317 Comp 65 259.22 259.22
8 Saurashtra 104.46 Comp - - - - - -
Branch
Canal (SBC)
Direct Comp
Distributarie
s
1 Thasra 1 2.565 Comp 3 25.033 25.033
2 Dabhali 1 3.920 Comp 5 35.626 35.626
3 Vajewal 1 7.730 Comp 4 26.357 26.35
4 VasnaDapat 1 7.700 Comp 6 28.265 28.265
5 Bahiyal 1 0.500 Comp 4 15.80 15.80
Total 322.545 63 345.773 345.773 36 1411.47 1410.459
0 6
Status of Command area developed under Phase-IIA is shown in Plate-4.

Saurashtra Branch Canal

Saurashtra Branch Canal (SBC), off taking at ch. 263.165 km of Narmada Main Canal
(NMC), will cover 5.32 lakh ha under its command in districts of Mehsana, Ahmedabad,
Surendranagar, Rajkot and Bhavnagar. The work of SBC in entire 104.46 km length is
completed except erection of embedded parts in some of the structures.

Water supply for irrigation and drinking purpose involves lift of about 66 m (revised from
71 m) at 5 different locations along SBC. As such, five pumping stations are planned and
executed along SBC at various locations as given in Table 10.
 Table 10: List of Pumping station along SBC.
Pumping station SBC chainage (km) Nearby village
PS-1 68.486 Dhanki
PS-2 77.165 Lakhtar
PS-3 87.950 Bala
PS-4 93.205 Rajpur
PS-5 102.840 Dudhrel

The work of installing all CVT pumps and VT pumps at five pumping stations is completed.
The work at PS-1 is completed in all respect and operative. The works of PS-1, PS-2, PS-3,
PS-4 & PS-5 are completed in all respect and all pumping stations are operative. The power
connection to all pumping stations is made available.

Seven sub-branches off take from Saurashtra Branch Canal. The work of four sub-branches
viz. Narsingpura, Maliya, Vallabhipur and Limdi are completed. The work of three Sub
branch viz. Botad, Dhranghdhra and Morbi is nearly on completion. Lengthwise progress for
SBC and its distributaries and minors as on 31.08.2019 is given in Table 11.Status of canals
of six branches of SBC is shown in Plate-5.

Table 11: Summary status of sub branches of SBC along with their distributaries

(Length in km)
Sr. Name of Sub- Length Completed Distributary Minor
No branch of sub- length of
. branch sub
branch
Nos. Total Comp. Nos. Total Comp.
length Length length Length
upto upto
31.08.201 31.08.2019
9
1 Narsing-pura 32.01 32.01 9 73.587 52.764 71 286.510 192.84
2 Vallabhi-pur 118.7 118.75 36 463.386 449.468 358 1208.73 1026.68
5

3 Limbdi 117.7 117.73 31 279.59 268.59 235 788.38 732.602

3

4 Botad 109.9 109.93 22 165.73 143.99 206 498.76 385.974

3

5 Morbi 119.1 119.17 16 138.13 125.88 152 450.97 373.579

7

6 Dhranghadhr 124.9 124.90 25 218.67 206.99 250 811.09 528.24

a 0

7 Maliya 137.9 137.93 35 155.43 128.05 105 300.15 211.17

 3

Total 760.4 760.42 174 1494.52 1375.73 137 4344.59 3451.08

2 7 5

13.3 Status of works under Phase-IIB

In Phase-II B, the work of Main Canal and Branch Canal up-to NMC Chainage 368 km is
completed. The work under distribution system i.e. distributaries and minors is in progress in
Phase-II B. The CCA is approximately 3.27 lakh ha and work of distribution system started
during 2010-11. The canal wise progress achieved up to August 2019 is given in Table 12.

Table 12: Overall status of works under Phase-II B

Sr Description of Total Nos. Total Length Completed Percentage
No Canal (km) Length (km) completion
1 Branch canal 8 316.937 316.937 100
2 Distributaries 100 764.266 764.016 99.96
3 Minors 672 2900.670 2750.63 94.82

Status of the Branch Canals with their distributaries under Phase-IIB is given in Table 13.

Table 13: Summary status of the branch canal with their distributaries in Phase-IIB
(Length in km)
Sr Name of Branch Canal Distributary Minor
No Branch
Canal
Total Completed No Total Completed No Total Complete
Length length as Length length as Length d length
on on as on
31.03.2019 31.08.2019
31.08.201
9
1 Viramgam-I 17.170 17.170 7 35.879 35.879 36 167.350 153.468
2 Viramgam-II 38.870 38.870 6 33.815 33.815 47 213.060 194.772
3 Goraiya 36.287 36.287 10 123.330 123.08 85 373.625 360.566
4 Kharaghoda 43.680 43.680 15 64.510 64.510 66 276.728 265.401
5 Jhinjhuwada 57.780 57.780 19 225.26 225.260 190 862.694 781.850
6 Bolera 25.390 25.390 16 117.385 117.385 93 360.644 356.700
7 Rajpura 42.450 42.450 16 102.177 102.177 91 363.113 357.753
8 Amarapura 55.310 55.310 11 61.910 61.910 64 283.456 280.120
  Total 316.937 316.937 100 764.266 764.016 672 2900.67 2750.630

Status and Planning of Narmada main canal under Phase-II B is shown in Plate-6.

13.4 Status of works under Phase-IIC

Under Phase-IIC the works of NMC is almost completed and water is flowing since March-
2008. The work of radial gates and stop log is under progress. Remaining works of NMC
reach Ch. 368.431 to 388.118 km at risk and cost of original agency is divided into three
packages. Work of Package 10/I is completed. Work of Package-10/II and 10/III which are
outside the canal prism area are almost completed. Hence, there are no constraints in flowing
of water in NMC. Status of works under Phase-IIC is shown in Plate-7.

The work of Radhanpur branch, Malsan, Madka, Vejpur, Gadsisar, Kachcha branch canal (0
to 82 km) and Dhima is almost completed. The CCA under this phase is approximately 2.40
lakh hectare. The Kachcha Branch Canal (KBC) Ch 82 to 357 km having a CCA of 1.13 lakh
ha under its command is in progress. The canal wise progress achieved up to August-2019
except KBC is given in Table 14.

Table 14: Overall status of works under Phase IIC

Sr Description of Total Total Completed Percentage
No Canal Nos Length Length (km) completion upto
(km) upto August- August-2019
2019
1 Branch canal 6 161.032 161.032 100
2 Distributaries 85 556.553 555.653 99.83
3 Minors 424 1284.891 1260.624 98.11

Status of the Branch Canals with their distributaries under Phase-IIC upto August-2019
is given in Table 15.

Table 15: Summary status of branch canal with their distributaries in Phase-II C
(Length in km)
S Branch Comman Branch Canal Distributary Minors
N Canal d at
canal Total Comp. No Total Comp. No Total Comp.
head Length length Length length Length length
(ha) upto upto upto
31.08.20 31.08.20 31.08.20
19 19 19
1 Radhanpu 59947 65.242 65.242 26 195.332 194.432 145 433.438 415.508
r (incl.
Sub
branch)
2 Vejpur 28000 24.00 24.00 11 65.378 65.378 60 207.219 207.219
3 Madka 17594 19.05 19.05 14 69.756 69.756 39 131.206 131.206
4 Malsan 28938 15.78 15.78 12 80.346 80.346 58 190.853 188.638
5 Dhima 26225 14.13 14.13 10 80.959 80.959 47 167.371 167.371
 6 Gadsisar 29073 22.83 22.83 12 64.782 64.782 69 154.804 150.682
Total 189777 161.032 161.032 85 556.553 555.653 418 1284.891 1260.624

13.5 Kutch Branch Canal

The Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) is the longest branch canal of the Narmada Canal system
having total length of 357.185 km. It off takes from NMC at km 385.814 and traverses
through Banaskantha and Patan District in length upto km 82.30 and thereafter crossing little
Rann of Kutch enters the Kutch district at 94.00 km. It is planned to cover 49,833 ha CCA
under KBC from 0 to 82 km and 1,12,778 ha CCA under KBC from 82 to 357 km. Status of
works under KBC is shown in Plate-8.

Considering the topography of the area it has been planned to provide three falls in initial
reaches at Ch. 20.67 km, 40.3 km and 82.3 km having magnitude of 11.25 m, 8.454 m and
8.825 m respectively. The area to be covered in Kutch district is at higher elevation and hence
it is planned to lift water at 100.97 km, 111.75 km and 189.97 km with magnitude of 18.21
m, 18.21 m and 18.72 m respectively.
Status of Kutch branch canal with their distributaries & minors upto 31.08.2019 is given in
Table-16.

Table 16: Summary status of Kutch branch canal with their distributaries
(Length in km)
Sr Branc Comman Branch Canal Distributary Minors
N h d at canal
Total Comp N Total Complete No Total Complete
o Canal head (ha)
Lengt length o Length d length Length d length
h upto upto upto
31.03.201 31.08.201 31.08.201
9 9 9

1 KBC 49833 82.3 82.30 25 138 137.698 12 326.47 307.451

(0-82) 7 6

2 KBC 112778 275+ 248.060 61 233.17 85.785 35 1071 564.764

(82- 156 + 77.310 6 8
357) (sub =
branc 325.370
h of
KBC)

14.0 Field visits

The Monitoring team comprising of Sh. Kushagra Sharma, Director and Sh. Amitabh Meena
Deputy Director of Monitoring Directorate, Central Water Commission, Gandhinagar, inspected
the following canal systems from 4-6th September 2019.
a) Limbdi Sub-Branch

On 4th September 2019, the first location visited was Limbdi Sub-Branch canal in Surendranagar
District. Name of branch canal is Saurashtra Branch Canal (SBC). A stretch of 155 length could
not be completed due to Land acquisition issues of a farm field which is in possession of a
different person than the land title holder. The matter was discussed with SE, SSNNL by the
CWC team and SE, SSNNL informed that suitable action will be taken to complete the work at
the earliest.
b) Saurashtra Branch canal

On 4th September 2019, the visit was done to Saurashtra Branch canal, 6 Km upstream from its
tail end at Dudrej in Surendranagar district. Saurashtra Branch Canal Offtakes from Narmada
Main Canal ch. 263.20Km. near town Kadi. There are seven sub branch canals off taking from
SBC namely Narsingpura, Vallabhipur, Maliya, Limbdi, Dhrangadhra, Botad and Morbi which
serve total CCA 497462 ha under irrigation.

c) Dhanala Minor

On 4th September 2019, the visit was done to Dhanala Minor, Dhrangdhar Sub-Branch,
Saurashtra Branch Canal (SBC).
There is a railway crossing, the work for which is pending with railways. As informed by the
officials of SSNNL, Indian railways has changed the location of the crossing slightly due to which
the alignment of the minor needs to be adjusted a bit. The GoG was advised to take up the
matter with Indian Railways and if M/o Jal Shakti’s involvement is required, the same may be
requested to CWC with detailed note.

d) Dhrangdhar Sub-branch canal

On 4th September 2019, the Dhrangdhar Sub-Branch canal was visited which was on the way to
Dhanala Minor. There was all grass on the bed of the canal and canal seems to be not managed
well. It was advised to take up the maintenance works.
e) Gagodhar Sub-Branch canal

On 5th September 2019 the Gagodhar Sub-Branch canal which offtakes from Kuch Branch Canal
was visited. The bottleneck here is a National Highway crossing the permission for which is
pending with NHAI. GoG was advised to take up the matter with NHAI and if M/o Jal Shakti’s
involvement is required, the same may be requested to CWC with detailed note.
f) Kanmer Distributary
On 5th September 2019 the Kanmer distributary of Gagodhar Sub-Branch canal was visited. Here
also the bottleneck is pending permission from NHAI for NH crossing. GoG was advised to take
up the matter with NHAI and if M/o Jal Shakti’s involvement is required, the same may be
requested to CWC with detailed note.
g) Sukhpar Distributary
On 5th September 2019 the Sukhpar distributary of Gagodhar Sub-Branch canal was visited.
Here also the bottleneck is pending permission from NHAI for NH crossing. GoG was advised to
take up the matter with NHAI and if M/o Jal Shakti’s involvement is required, the same may be
requested to CWC with detailed note.
h) Manjuvas Distributary
On 5th September 2019 location of Manjuvas distributary off-taking from Gagodhar Sub-Branch
canal was visited.
i) Sangadh Distributary:

On 5th September 2019 Sangadh distributary (KBC) was visited. Here the bottleneck was District
Road Crossing, the permission for which is awaited. It was advised to complete the pending
work at the earliest.
j) Kutch Branch canal NH41 crossing Moti Bhujpar, Near Mundra port

On 5th September 2019 Kutch Branch Canal visited at chainage 291.706 where
bottleneck of NH crossing at Moti Bhujpar near Mundra port is pending as the
permission for the crossing is awaited from NHAI. GoG was advised to take up the
matter with NHAI and if M/o Jal Shakti’s involvement is required, the same may be
requested to CWC with detailed note.

k) Kutch Branch canal IOCL Pipeline crossing:

On 5th September 2019 Kutch Branch Canal visited at chainage 231.825 Km where
bottleneck of IOCL Pipeline crossing is pending as the permission for the crossing is
awaited from IOCL. GoG was advised to take up the matter with IOCL and if M/o Jal
Shakti’s involvement is required, the same may be requested to CWC with detailed note.

l) Kutch Branch canal chainage 232.550:

On 5th September 2019 Kutch Branch Canal visited at chainage 233.220 Km to 233.280
Km where Highway crossing permission is awaited. GoG was advised to speed up the
work of obtaining the permission so that hydraulic connectivity can be established.

m) Kutch Branch canal chainage 240.082 to 245.050:

On 5th September 2019 Kutch Branch Canal visited at chainage 240.082 Km to 245.050
Km where hydraulic connectivity is not established due to problems of land acquisition.
It was advised that the matter may be sorted out as early as possible.
Physical Progress of various components under AIBP:

Physical progress under AIBP with % achievement under each component, % weighted head-
wise achievement and % achievement of project as a whole, as on 31 st August 2019 is given
in Table 17.

Table 17: Physical progress under AIBP ending August-2019

Sr Component Unit Latest Quantity Balance Progre Latest Weigh Weighte %

No estimated executed Quantity ss (in Estimate ted d Progres
quantity as on %) d Cost Co- percenta s
(Rs efficie ge overall
crore) nt progress
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

A Main Canal                  
i) Land ha. 11329 11329 0 100  774.44 0.160 16.030  
acquisition 3
ii) Earth Work Tcum 212567 212567 0 100 827.13 0.171 17.120  
(Excavation) 2
iii) a) Structures Nos. 651 637 14 97.85   0.485 48.252  
 2342.10  
b) Concrete Tcum 5324 5300.06 23.94 99.55
v) Lining Tcm 4316 4316 0.00 100  884.14 0.184 18.38  

  Total               100.00

B Branch              
Canal
i) Land ha. 18585.98 18445.820 140.16 99.25 909.139  0.101 10.034
acquisition 1
ii) Earth Work Tcum 237105.73 230425.3 6680.43 97.18 1505.60  0.168 16.278  
(Excavation)
iii) a) Structures Nos. 4986 4769 217 95.65     43.726  
3954.75  0.440  
b) Concrete Tcum 6068.17 6030.42 37.75 99.38 0

c) Masonry Tcum 1.430 1.430 0 100

iv) Gates Nos. 2611 2444 167 93.60 626.080 0.069 6.524
7
v) Lining Tcm 8322.82 8023.49 299.33 96.4 1992.88  0.222 21.373  

  Total               98.00
C Distributarie
s
i) Land ha. 10332.94 9938.03 394.91 96.18 553.921 0.148 14.225
acquisition
ii) Earth Work Tcum 10401.28 10391.23 10.05 99.9 881.941 0.236 22.057
(excavation)
Earth Work Tcum 84591.700 79229.00 5362.7 93.66
(embankment)
iii) a) Structures Nos. 13020 11991 1029 92.10 1342.47 0.359 34.335
2
b) Concrete Tcum 1683.38 1612.23 71.15 95.77

iv) Lining Tcum 3297.4 3147.65 149.75 95.46 965.998 0.258 24.628

Pipeline/Duct m 147947 95076 52871 64.26

Total 95.00
D Minors

i) Land ha. 16828.80 16673.5 155.3 99.08 1235.47 0.262 26.028

acquisition 7

ii) a) Earth Work Tcum 6539.16 6166.33 372.83 94.30 903.166 0.192 17.865
(excavation)

b) Earth Work Tcum 102524.11 95348.4 7175.71 93

(embankment)
iii) a) Structures Nos. 55526 49028 6498 88.3 859.396 0.183 16.853

b) Concrete Tcum 2009.67 1852.8 156.87 92.19

 c) Masonry Tcum 42.74 42.74 0 100

iv) Lining Tcum 3882.84 3652.57 230.27 94.07 925.894 0.197 18.522

v) Pipeline/Duct m 2274510.5 1408059.5 866451 61.91 778.643 0.166 10.2552

0
Total 90.00

E Other
components
if any(please
specify)

F a) CCA lakh 17.92 14.88 3.04 83.03 83.03

developed ha.
b) IP created lakh 17.92 16.64 1.28 92.85 92.85
ha.

Note : Slight variation in total quantity shown in table 5 & above table is due to the fact that the table 5 shows
original estimated quantity & table 17 shows revised total quantity as per the actual executed work.

15.0 Project Potential

15.1 Creation of irrigation potential of 17.92 lakh ha is envisaged in a phased manner.

There was no potential creation upto March 1996. Details of targets and achievements in
potential creation and future programme from the year 1996-97 since its inclusion in AIBP
are given in Table 18.

15.2 As regards utilization of created IP, it is reported by the project authorities that due to
absence of a proper delivery system in parts of the command area during the interim stage of
the project, the farmers have started utilizing available water resources through pumping etc
directly from canal for irrigation purposes to protect their crops.

15.3 It is proposed to provide irrigation through water users association, who may receive
water and distribute it, mobilize resources for management of the system and manage contract
works within its area. The farmers of water users’ associations (WUA) will be catered
irrigation water by rotational water supply (RWS) system, proportionate to their land
holdings. As reported by the project officers, formation of 1193 WUAs are envisaged in the
command of canals in phase-I out of which 1191 WUAs have already been formed and
registered up to January 2018. For rest of the project under Phase-II formation of
approximately 3113 WUAs are envisaged, out of which 1382 WUAs have been formed up to
March-2019. It is suggested to supply water to farmers on volumetric basis for proper
utilization of water.
Table 18: Year-wise Physical Progress- IP Creation

Irrigation Potential Creation (ha)

 Sl. Year Target Achievement Cumulative Short fall during
No (As per MoU) Achievement the year
(ha)
1 1996-97 2,000 14989 14,989 NIL
2 1997-98 16,877 11,309 26,298 5,568
3 1998-99 63,607 23,700 49,998 39,907
4 1999-2k 78,900 25,577 75,575 53,323
5 2000-01 94,146 40,116 1,15,691 54,030
6 2001-02 1,32,000 15,055 1,30,746 1,16,945
7 2002-03 1,09,728 10,350 1,41,095 99,378
8 2003-04 54,593 59,628 2,00,724 NIL
9 2004-05 38,400 77,946 2,78,670 NIL
10 2005-06 87,044 33,587 3,12,257 53,457
11 2006-07 66,865 81,840 3,94,097 NIL
12 2007-08 4,12,606 66,135 4,60,232 3,46,471
13 2008-09 20,885 20,885 4,81,117 NIL
14 2009-10 16,963 14,000 4,95,117 2,963
15 2010-11 38,479 28,892 5,24,009 9587
16 2011-12 3,04,233 21,267 5,45,276 282966
Targets for Irrigation Potential Creation as per MoU signed in 2012
17 2012-13 2,25,000 1,28,237 6,73,513 96,763
18 2013-14 3,00,000 2,74,782 9,48,295 25,218
19 2014-15 4,75,000 1,62,638 11,10,933 3,12,362
20 2015-16 2,46,724 1,85,907 12,96,840 60,817
Targets as per proposed MoU in 2016-17
21 2016-17 1,65,000 1,16,459 14,13,299 48,541

22 2017-18 1,65,000 1,26,378 15,39,677 38,622

23 2018-19 1,65,160 98635 16,38,312 66,525

24 2019-20 1,13,147 26,202 16,64,514

(upto August (Revised
19) proposed)

16.0 Financial Programme & Progress

16.1 Central Assistance and Expenditure under AIBP

Central Assistance or Loan Assistance under AIBP started from the financial year 1996-97.
During financial years 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05, the Project received assistance under
Fast Track component also. No CA was provided during year 2009-10 because revised cost
estimate was not approved and revised investment clearance by the Planning Commission
could not be received by the project. The year wise details of CLA/CA requested, sanctioned
and released and the expenditures incurred by SSNNL under AIBP are given in Table 19.

Table 19: Year wise AIBP assistance for SSP

Year Expenditure on SSP works under

 CLA / CA sanctioned CLA / CA Works Establishme Total
by GOI released nt
(Rs in Cr) by GOI
1996-97 95.00 (Rs71.25
in Cr) 376.21 56.07 432.28
1997-98 300.00 177.00 602.52 63.02 665.54
1998-99 410.00 410.00 743.06 88.10 831.16
1999-2k 267.00 267.00 550.29 91.87 642.16
2000-01 400.00 400.00 585.81 94.50 680.31
2001-02 480.00 480.00 640.11 100.75 740.86
2002-03 903.00 903.00 626.34 69.31 695.65
2002-03(Fast 188.00 188.13 34.11 222.24
2003-04(Fast 557.00 557.00 1350.00 92.13 1442.13
2003-04(Fast 92.50
2004-05(Fast 92.50 185.74 31.94 217.68
2004-05 600.00 438.00#1 904.36 91.93 996.29
2005-06 177.6 339.60 668.90 72.52 741.42
2006-07 315.9 121.89#2 956.14 75.48 1031.62
2007-08 750.23 585.72 797.42 87.21 884.63
#4 #3
2008-09 0.00 251.90 574.23 86.13 660.36
2009-10 0.00 0.00 240.11 36.02 276.13
2010-11 401.58 361.42 747.08 112.06 859.14
2011-12 1130.216 0.00 1727.36 259.10 1986.45
2012-13 1351.39 (recommended) 1285.934 2251.502 337.725 2589.227
2013-14 1006.28 (recommended) 607.572 2216.96 332.54 2549.50
2014-15 1148.82 (recommended) 1033.935 2400.787 360.118 2760.905
2015-16 498.7477(recommended) 128.003 2316.009 183.405 2499.414
2016-17 1503.06(recommended) 961.878 1987.11 206.62 2193.73

2017-18 1532.30(recommended) 1410.489 2350.54 207.393 2557.933

2018-19 1458.06(recommended) 1047.29* 2299.93* 178.72* 2478.65*

2019-20 483.54 (recommended) - 458.085 65.248 523.333

(upto August 19)
TOTAL 12211.884 28744.73 3414.02* 32158.76
#1 Rs 162.00 crores of 2004-05 were released in 2005-06 as arrears of 2004-05
#2 Rs 162.42 crores of 2006-07 were released in 2007-08 as arrears of 2006-07
#3 Rs 251.90 crores of 2007-08 were released in 2008-09 as arrears of 2007-08
#4 No release could be made as the proposal for 2008-09 was received from the State at the end of the
financial year and the observations/comments conveyed by Mon. Dte., CWC, Gandhinagar could not be
complied by the State in time.
#5 No release could be made in the year 2009-10 due to non-receipt of revised investment
clearance from Planning Commission.
## Against Rs 3007.94 crore demanded by the state for the year 2011-12 CA recommended by the CWC
headquarter to the MOWR was Rs. 1130.216 crores. But no financial assistance was released for SSP
during FY 2011-12
The Bar chart showing financial progress of Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project is enclosed at
Annexure-VII (a). The Quarterly financial planning and progress is enclosed at Annexure-
VII (b).

16.2 Financial programme and progress during MoU periods

Financial programme and progress during MoU period is given in the following table 20

Table 20: Year wise AIBP assistance for SSP

Year Targeted Actual expenditure Shortfall
expenditure
For MoU period from 2012-13 to 2015-16

2012-13 3300.00 2251.50 1048.5

2013-14 2700.00 2216.96 483.04
2014-15 1550.90 2400.787 -849.887
2015-16 703.46 2316.009 -1612.55
Total 8254.36 9185.256 -930.896
For proposed MoU period from 2016-17 to 2018-19
2016-17 3093.465 1987.11 1106.355
2017-18 3226.78 2350.54 876.24
2018-19 3553.045 2299.93 1253.115*
Total 9873.264 6637.58
2019-20 upto August 2019 2398.02 458.085

16.3 Expenditure for whole project

Year-wise cumulative expenditure on the project is shown in the figure 5

Cumulative Expenditure (in Crore)

70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
2005

2006

2007

2011

2012

2013

2016

2017

2018

Upto 8/2018
Upto 2002

2003

2004

2008

2009

2010

2014

2015

Figure 5 Year-wise Cumulative Expenditure on the Project

Yearly expenditure incurred on the project and the cumulative expenditure on the Project is
tabulated in the Table 21

Table 21: Year-wise Cumulative Expenditure on the Project

Sr Financial Amount Spent Cumulative Expenditure

No Year (in crore) (in crore)
1 Upto 2002 12663.76 12663.76
2 2003 1696.95 14360.71
 3 2004 2298.57 16659.28
4 2005 2171.96 18831.24
5 2006 2580.38 21411.62
6 2007 2460.26 23871.88
7 2008 1031.62 24903.5
8 2009 4650.26 29553.76
9 2010 1846.74 31400.5
10 2011 3025.1 34425.6
11 2012 3169.79 37595.39
12 2013 2209.91 39805.3
13 2014 2861.53 42666.83
14 2015 3062.76 45729.59
15 2016 4301.83 50031.42
16 2017 5613.61 55645.03
17 2018 6383.74 62028.77
18 2019 5460.93 67489.7
19 August-2019 979.72 68469.41

17.0 Financial management

As per the award of the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal, the project cost is to be shared in
given proportions among party States viz. Governments of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

Govt. of Gujarat has constituted a limited company viz. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam
Limited, which manages and executes the SSP. It has been mobilizing resources through
various funding agencies like Government Finance Corporation/banks and from public
borrowing. The project is also receiving Central Assistance under AIBP from Ministry of
Water Resources, Govt. of India. Now, the project is receiving loan from Long Term
Irrigation Fund (LTIF) of NABARD for its state share. It is observed that provisions in the
Annual Plans are generally matched by budgetary and non-budgetary resources.

The expenditure incurred by state Govt. of Gujarat on works component under AIBP is Rs
28744.731 crore upto August 2019 and total CA/CLA released by Govt. of India is Rs
12211.884 crore, including that received under the fast track programme.

The State Govt. has reported that a large amount of share of expenditure due to other Party
States viz. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan remains unpaid. Timely payment of
shares by States is likely to augment financial resources and reduce requirement on AIBP
funds.

18.0 Monitoring of Project at State/Project Level:

The GOG constituted State level committee to monitor the major, medium and minor
irrigation project in May-2006. A standing Committee was constituted in February-2008, to
examine the reasons of cost overrunning of Sardar Sarovar Project and for giving their reports
with relevant findings/recommendations to the Government. Also, the Board of Directors of
the Company (SSNNL) constituted “Project Committee” in August 2007 to monitor progress
of the project/works.

The Government of Gujarat had constituted a State Level Committee to monitor the reasons
of cost over run in the major, medium and minor irrigation projects in 2008 vide resolution
No. MIS-2002/15/Pt-4/N Dated 03/01/2008. First meeting of State Level Monitoring
Committee was held on 10th July 2009 of Gandhinagar under the chairmanship of Secretary
(WR) with representative of State Govt., SSNNL & CWC.

The progress of ongoing works are also continuously monitored on a regular basis at various
levels viz. from the level of Superintending Engineer to the Hon'ble Minister, Govt. of
Gujarat on various aspects like quantity of work executed, mobilization of manpower &
machinery etc.

The third-party evaluation report for the year 2016-17 has been submitted by State Govt. vide
their letter dated 22.9.2017 to the MoWR, RD&GR.

19.0 Points needing attention

Close attention along with commensurate action needs to be paid/ taken up in respect of the
following:

19.1 Irrigation Potential Creation

The pace of creation of IP was slow as compared to targets during the earlier MOU period
(2012-13 to 2016-17). The IP created was only 7,51,564 ha as against target IP creation of
12,46,724 ha and thus about 60.28%
of target IP was created during
previous MoU period.

The Project has created Irrigation

Potential of 12,96,840 ha up to March
2016. The balance IP of 4,95,160 ha
is to be created during the current
MoU period i.e. 2016-17 to 2019. As
per proposed MoU 1,65,000 ha IP is to be created during the year 2016-17 out of which
1,16,459 ha IP has been created. The IP created during the year 2017-18 is 1,26,378 ha as
against target of 1,65,000 ha. The IP created during 2018-19 is 98,635 hectares against the
target of 1,65,160 ha. It is obvious that creation of Irrigation potential is slow as against
targeted IP creation with respect to proposal 2018-19 , 2019-20 and current MoU.

The reasons for slow pace of works vis-a-vis the targets as per current MOU may be
intimated for the year 2016-17 to 2019-20.

It is seen that there are certain areas where focused and concerted efforts may improve the
progress for creation of IP (up to the minor level). All efforts need to be made to achieve the
targets as proposed by Project Authorities for AIBP works.

19.2 Irrigation Potential Utilization

Out of total proposed IP creation of 17.92 lakh ha, it is seen that up to August-2019, IP
Created is 16.64 lakh ha. However, Irrigation Potential Utilized is only 10.673 lakh ha
(64.14% of Potential Created) for the water year 2018-19 (from July-2018 to June -2019). It
is suggested that all out integrated efforts need to be made to minimize the gap between
Potential Created and Potential Utilized. Various measures undertaken for reducing the gap
between IP Created and IP Utilized may be intimated.

19.3 Land Acquisition

The 17982 ha of private land is required to be acquired for canal system under Phase-I, out of
which 17962 ha has already been acquired and 20 ha is yet to be acquired. Out of the total
1361 ha of Govt. land and 60.56 ha of forest land coming under Phase-I, 1361.26 ha of Govt.
land and 60.56 ha of forest land have been acquired. Similarly, for Phase-II, out of total
34382.52 ha of private land, 33382.81 ha has been acquired while out of the total 4466.95 ha
of Govt. land and 616.66 ha of forest land, 4340.46 ha of Govt. land and 613.20 ha of forest
land have been acquired. Remaining land is planned to be acquired on priority as per
procedure of Land Acquisition Act. It is mentioned here that land acquisition in the canal
system was held up due to the lack of new rules for the Land Acquisition Act-2016.

19.4 Tendering Process

It is desirable that non-working season of monsoon is utilized to complete tendering process

so that works can begin at the very onset of the working season.

It is intimated by project officials in the compliance of 32 nd Monitoring report that non-

working season of monsoon is utilized to complete tendering process so that works can begin
at the very onset of the working season. During the Financial year 2019-20 (upto August-
2019), 7 Nos. tenders amounting to Rs. 78.29 crore has been approved.
19.5 Quality of works and maintenance

During the visit, it is seen that at many places the canal network was in a dilapidated
condition. The farmers in the adjoining area also complained of bad quality of work as well
as maintenance issues. The project authorities informed that the contractor is supposed to
provide the Maintenance Services for the period of five years from the date of completion of
the work. However, it is seen that the agency has not been doing the maintenance work
regularly and there are many patches of the canal lining which are been damaged but not
repaired. In some places there is a lot of silt accumulated in the distributaries and minors,
which needs to be removed. The quality of construction of canal lining may also be ensured.
There is growth of grass and shrubs in the canal cross section and on the edges, which needs
to be removed regularly so as to allow free flow of the water. This vegetation in the canal is
creating an obstruction for the water flow.

It is a must that the agency which constructed the canals, must be held responsible for the
maintenance work and appropriate schedule for regular maintenance must be chartered out.

It was informed that the maintenance period of some of the contactors will be getting over
shortly. It is important to ensure that the works done by this contractor is got repaired well
before their period is over, otherwise there may be maintenance issues which will put
financial as well as a resource burden on the project authorities.

During the visit, it was seen that the canal lining of the old canals as well as the new canals
has got cracks at many places which can be the potential places for the heavy leakage. At
some of the places the canal lining has damaged and subsided to a large extent requiring
major repairs. The project authorities must give attention to this aspect.

19.6 Tourism Potential

The Sardar Sarovar project site has already become a major tourist attraction. The Statue of
Unity near the dam has increased the tourism potential of this area manifold.

Apart from this area, there are many other structures and locations in the command area of
the project, which have a potential of becoming a tourist attraction during monsoon as well as
non-monsoon season. The Orsang aqueduct, the Sabarmati siphon and escape, the canal top
solar power houses in Vadodara, the Y-junction where Saurashtra branch takes off from the
main canal, etc. too have a potential for becoming a tourist attraction provided necessary
facilities and further facilities & attractions like Gardens, water fountains etc. are added in the
adjoining area.

19.7 Use of RS/GIS in monitoring

The technological advances in the field of Remote sensing and GIS makes it possible to
monitor infrastructure development works which are geographically scattered on a large area.
These tools are ideal for monitoring the AIBP as well as CAD works. The project authorities
may establish necessary infrastructure and their headquarters as well as the field offices so
that physical progress on each item is mapped properly and is available to the higher level
Administration and Management of the project authorities and also the Government of India
officials whenever it is required.

19.8 Illegal lifting of Water by Farmers

Lifting of the canal waters directly from the main Canal, branches, distributaries and minors
is a
very rampant practice in almost all parts of the command area. The practice may have
been
started because of the slow development of the command area development works, however,
now it has become a norm for
most of the farmers to take the
water directly from the canal
using diesel pumps or siphons.
At many places the pipe is
inserted into the canal through its
lining. This has done serious
damage to the canal lining,
which can be harmful to the
structural integrity of the canal. This is also leading to the heavy seepage of water and loss of
water. Such unauthorised water lifting needs to be curbed with strict enforcement of the legal
provisions in this respect. Not only that such activities are illegal but they are also a potential
structural danger to the canal network. The project authorities need to initiate strong steps in
this direction with the help of the local Administration and law in forcing agencies.

This continued illegal pumping of water by the farmers also acts as a disincentive for the
development of water user associations. The farmers will not appreciate the need for an
association for distribution of water among themselves with water charges, when others are
having free access to the water.

20.0 Bottlenecks in Implementation of Project component under AIBP

20.1 Land Acquisition

The Government has revised the land acquisition procedure. This has delayed the land
acquisition. It is observed that the land acquisition in the canal system was held up due to the
lack of new rules for the Land Acquisition Act-2016. However, after the framing of rules in
Oct 2017, the acquisition process was expected to speed up.

The Land Acquisition should be planned in advance for the proposed works so as to ensure
acquisition of the required land for the works and its actual handing over to the Project and
no failure shall be encountered in progress on account of Land Acquisition bottlenecks.
UGPL may be adopted where land acquisition is creating problems in construction activities
in case of distributaries and minors. Though, the UPGL canal network work is expensive as
compared to conventional method of open field channels, it is water efficient, eliminates
acquisition of costly and scare land, speedy construction and relatively maintenance free
particularly in case black cotton soil, low lying flat area where there is sheet flow condition.

20.2 Utility Crossings

There are many missing links left over in the canal network due to utility crossing such as
Railway, National Highway, Various Gas and Oil Pipelines etc. It is necessary to ensure that
all gaps left in the network due to various utilities such as Railway, National Highway,
Various Gas and Oil Pipelines etc. required to be completed after obtaining approval from
various statutory bodies for completing the canal network in time. Because of these small
gaps, hydraulic connectivity of canal as well as works contract completion is hampered. This
impedes the achievement of IP creation and utilization.

The matter should be pursued rigorously with concerned authorities to expedite various
approval required to cross various utilities so that hydraulic continuity in the canal may be
ensured to achieve full Potential Creation and Utilization.

20.3 Shortage of Man Power in regular Establishment

Shortage of the manpower is one of the reasons informed by the project authorities for less
progress on AIBP, CADWM as well as for repair and maintenance issues. It was informed
that at many places the staff strength is about 30 to 40% only. It is seen that there is acute
shortage of technical as well as supporting staff strength in the various cadres of SSNNL at
present This is a priority project and it is a crucial time for its speedy completion. It is seen
that budget provisions has been made, the central assistance is released; however the physical
and financial progress is much less than the target. This defeats the very purpose for which
the project has been kept in the priority list. The acute shortage of technical manpower in all
class ranging from Chief Engineer to section officer/Junior Engineer needs to be resolved by
filling the vacancies on top priority for achieving the targets in the remaining period of the
Project execution, either through regular appointments or through outsourcing. The overall
Manpower status in SSNNL is given in table below:

Table 22: SSNNL (Man power status) (As on 31.08.2019)

Class Sanctioned post Filled post % of Filled post
Class-1 200 63 31%
Class-2 2065 940 45%
Class-3 2666 637 23%
Class-4 868 349 40%
Total 5799 1989 34%
The technical Manpower status in SSNNL is given in table below.

Table 23: SSNNL (Man power status) Technical (As on 31.08.2019)

Class Sanctioned Filled post % of Filled post
post
Chief Engineer 13 10 76%
Superintending Engineer 24 16 66%
Executive Engineer 93 22 23%
Deputy Executive Engineer 332 182 54%
Assistant Engineer/Additional Assistant 1598 743 46%
Engineer
LAQ officer 13 4 31%
Deputy Mamlatdar 73 10 14%

21.0 Compliance Report to CWC Observations contained in the 33 rd and 34th status
report:

Compliance of the 33rd and 34th status report is awaited from the Project Authority.

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Part III
MONITORING REPORT- CADWM

1.0 Project Summary

The CADWM works of Sardar Sarovar project was started in the year 2004-05 so that water
may be made available in the farmer’s fields. The CAD&WM work of Sardar Sarovar Project
has been taken up in two Phases i.e. Phase-I & Phase-II. The entire canal system is divided in
mainly two Phases as given below:

Phase - I: from km 0 to km 144.5

Phase - II: from km 144.5 to km 458.412

The Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project received Central Assistance under CADWM
programme from FY 2004-05 to FY 2005-06 and thereafter from FY 2010-11 to FY 2012-13.
The Cumulative CA was Rs 108.45 crore and total expenditure was Rs 750.30 crore upto
2014-15 for phase-I. The developed command area upto 2014-15 was 2.65 lakh ha as open
field channel in phase-I. For phase-II, there was no CA and total expenditure was 53.11 crore
with developed command area of 1.04 lakh ha as open field channel upto 2014-15.

Under CADWM programme, Central Assistance of Rs 6.257 crore for Phase- I and Rs
348.4613 crore under Phase-II was released to SSP for the year 2015-16 after submission of
MoU by the state Govt. for both the phases separately in March,2016. The expenditure in the
year 2015-16 was Rs 77.198 crore in I phase and 1013.53 crore in II phase. The CCA
developed in the year 2015-16 was 18,000 ha and 2.15 lakh ha for phase-I and phase-II
respectively.

Central Assistance of Rs 58.6967 crore for Phase-I and Rs 623.11 crore under Phase-II was
released for the year 2016-17. The expenditure in the year 2016-17 was Rs 126.142 crore in I
phase and 1309.764 crore in II phase. Thus, total CA released in the year 2016-17 was Rs
681.6463 crore and total expenditure was 1435.906 crore. The cumulative CA upto 2016-17
was Rs 1144.8819 crore and cumulative expenditure upto 2016-17 was Rs 3375.071 crore.
The CCA developed in the year 2016-17 was 24,000 ha and 3.61 lakh ha for phase-I and
phase-II respectively and thus total CCA developed in the year 2016-17 was 3.85 lakh ha.

Year 2017-18 onwards, it is decided to submit the combined proposal of phase-I and phase-II
for CA and accordingly, SSNNL had submitted combined CA proposal for phase-I & II of
SSP. The total cost of proposal for the year 2017-18 was Rs 1854.02 crore with CA demand
of Rs 790.098 crore. The CCA developed in the year 2017-18 was 2.90 lakh ha.

Total command area for the project is 17.92 lakh ha, out of which 14.89 lakh ha command
area is developed upto July 2019 by completing the sub minor works. The state Govt. has
informed that the remaining CADWM works will be completed in a phased manner by 2020-
21.

Central Assistance released, Expenditure incurred and CCA developed under CAD&WM is
as given below:

Table 24: Financial and Physical Progress

(Fig in Rs crore for CA and expenditure)

Year Phase-I Phase-II Total CCA developed in
lakh ha
CA Expenditur CA Expenditu CA Expenditu Ph-I Ph-II Total
released e incurred released re released re
incurred incurred
Up to 105.45 750.304 0 53.11 105.45 803.414 2.65 1.04 3.69
March’15
2015-16 6.257 77.198 348.4613 1013.53 354.7183 1090.728 0.18 2.15 2.33
2016-17 58.535 126.142 623.1086 1309.764 681.6436 1435.906 0.24 3.61 3.85
2017-18 - - - - 690.476 1224.73 - - 2.47
2018-19* 347.04 861.68 2.52

2019-20 -
Total 170.242 953.644 971.5699 2376.404 2179.3279 5416.458 14.89

*CA was released for whole project

Revised MoU for the physical and financial planning from 2017-18 to 2019-20 has been
signed. The balance cost of completion of CADWM works from the year 2017-18 upto
December 2019 is Rs 3915.32 crore out of which CA of Rs 1608.45 crore is demanded by
state Govt. as per revised MoU. The balance CCA proposed to be developed in the MoU is
8,04,224 ha.

Table 25: Physical and financial planning of project under CADWM

Year Planning as per MoU Actual Progress

 Physical Financial CA Demanded Physical Financial CA released
(ha) (in Rs Cr) (in Rs Cr) (ha) (in Rs Cr) (in Rs Cr)

2017-18 3,95,049 1854.02 790.10 247,435 1224.73 690.476

2018-19 2,71,175 1295.43 542.350 252,147 861.68* 347.04

2019-20 1,38,000 999.49 375.72 1418 - -

Total 8,04,224 4148.94 1708.17 5,01,000 2086.41 1037.516

*Upto Aug-2019
The detail planning for CADWM works under various activities as per revised MoU by the
State Govt for the project as given in Annexure-X.

Total CCA for the project is 17.92 lakh ha, out of which 14.87 lakh ha command area is
developed upto March 2019 by completing the sub minor works. The remaining CADWM
works would be completed in a phased manner by 2020-21. In this year 2018-19, the CCA of
2,60,165 ha has been developed against the target CCA of 2,71,175 ha and thus cumulative
CCA of 14,87,358 ha has been developed up to March-2019. Expenditure incurred upto
March-2019 in the year 2018-19 is Rs. 861.68 crore against budget provision of Rs. 1295.43
crore.

Total number of WUA’s proposed to be registered is 4497 out of which 2998 WUA has been
formed and 2894 has been registered and 1215 have been handed over the work up to March-
2019. It is proposed by State Govt. that CADWM works would be completed by the end of
2020-21.

2.0 Structural Interventions as being executed

Main Activities involved under structural interventions are survey, planning, design and
execution of On-Farm Development (OFD) works, construction of field, intermediate & link
drains, correction of system deficiencies and reclamation of waterlogged areas.

The Under Ground Pipe Line (UGPL) system adopted in SSNNL is itself by and large, a very
good combination of above items of structural interventions. Survey, planning and design for
carrying alignment of UGPL is essential and UPVC (Unplasticized polyvinyl chloride) pipes
for gravity flow as well as lifting by diesel pump and outlet kundies with sluice valves, air
valves etc. are considered in the system. UGPL works are done according to the gradient of
ground level and extra efforts and expenditure are made in undulating areas.

In Gujarat, the policy for the construction of sub-minor UGPL was formed in 2012 with
effective participation of WUA under PPP and option of open channel or UGPL to be
decided in consultation with farmers. Same was revised in August 2014.
Broader aspects of the policy are as under:

1. The group of farmers has to decide the alignment of sub minor which is underground
and therefore there is no question of land acquisition. However, if open channel is
selected by farmers, farmers will be expected to contribute their land.
2. SSNNL will pay 90% of the total cost.
3. The group of farmers is expected to pay 10% of the cost as a labour component to the
cost of scheme. The purpose is to inculcate a sense of ownership in farmers.
4. O&M of sub minor will be responsibility of beneficiary farmers of chak.

Subsequently, provision of farmer contribution of 10% was revised to 2.5%. According to

this policy, after finalizing agency, agency has to consult beneficiary farmers and obtain
consent of more than 50% beneficiary for alignment of the pipeline and location of turnout.
Letter of Intent to the agency are issued after tri party agreement i.e. agency, SSNNL and
beneficiary farmers.

3.0 Non- Structural Interventions as being executed

Main Activities involved under Non-structural interventions are creation of Water User
Association and training, demonstration and adaptive trials to increase water use efficiency,
productivity and sustainability of Irrigation for strengthening of Participatory Irrigation
Management (PIM). The details of WUA’s are given in Appendix-I.

The water user associations are being formed in the command area of SSP and training,
demonstrations are also being given. The water delivery system is planned to cater to village
service area and supplied on a volumetric basis at the head of village service area. Water will
be delivered on demand by WUAs and not by individuals. In order to increase utilization of
created potential, pari-passu implementation of PIM is essential.

One of the important non-structural activity to establish and strengthen the water user
association is the infrastructure grant and functional grant. The infrastructure grant is to be
used for creating an office infrastructure for the water user Association so that they can have
the regular meetings there and they can use office for the Record Keeping and other
activities.

Functions of grant @ Rs.1200 per hectare is to be provided to the water user Association so
that they can start their work with this financial support. The functional grant is to be
deposited as a fixed deposit and the interest from this fixed deposit is to be used by the
 association for its various activities. The release of functional grant is very important so that
the water user associations can have some income to spend on various activities.

4.0 Changes in Scope, if any

There is no change of scope.
5.0 Organizational set up for the Project-
The organizational set up for the project for CADWM works is as given below:

CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR

JT. M.D.
(ADM) DIRECTOR DIRECTOR EXE.DIR.
Director (CAD) C.G.M.(L&A) APCCF
(CIVIL) (CANALS) (AGRI.)

CGM
(TECH & COOR) CE (CPC) CE (QC)

DIRECTOR (CAD)

C.E.(S.B.C.) C.E. C.E. C.E. CE GM

C.E.
RAJKOT (NMC)-P (GANDHIDHAM) (Design)-P (E&M)-P (PIM)
(AHMEDABAD)
RAJKOT )

DGM-1 DGM-3 DGM-2 DGM-4

(Main Canal) (Main Canal) GM (HP) (Main Canal) (Main Canal)- P
Ch. 144 to 293
km

The concerned Chief Engineers, Superintending Engineers and Executive Engineers under
their jurisdiction are responsible for CADWM works

6.0 Overall Assessment regarding project completion

The project is required to be completed by the end of December, 2019 for CADWM works as
stipulated in the MoUs. There are some bottlenecks to achieve the targets in time such as,
LAQ problems, Utility crossing, poor performance of some agencies etc in the execution of
AIBP works. However, there is no major bottleneck in case of CADWM works after adoption
of UGPL in CAD works but completion of AIBP works is essential to reap the benefits of the
CADWM works. If these problems are addressed suitably then it is possible to complete the
project in time. In addition to the structural measures it is important that the non-structural
measures like strengthening the water user Association and its capacity building must be
given the priority. It is seen that the progress on this respect is almost NIL. There are certain
training programs and demonstration for the farmers, however the overall scale of the non-
structural activities is abysmally low.

Considering the lag in IP creation and current pace of command area development, it seems
that State may not be able to complete the command area development work Pari-Passu with
other AIBP works by the end of 2020-21.

7.0 Contractual Arrangements

Expression of Interest is invited from the various agencies which are approved with GGRC
and others and then some agencies are qualified from them. Rates invited from them as a unit
rates of the items. Rates are moderated and approved by SSNNL by price discovery
accordingly. Approved rates are circulated to the qualified agencies who quoted the rates. If
there is slow progress, additional agencies can be approved.

List of approved agencies & unit rates are finalized and work order is to be given to each
agency for limited no of chaks to complete the work within time frame. If qualified agency is
not able to do the work, considering the urgency of the work and non-willingness of the
agency to carry out the work, the work of laying of UGPL can be awarded to other agencies
who are willing to carry out work within time frame and approved unit rates. SSNNL has also
approved the List of Pipe manufacturer and power is delegated to Chief Engineer for
allotment of UGPL work directly to the agency of other ongoing works, whose progress was
satisfactory in their jurisdiction. SSNNL has also introduced Tri party agreement between
farmer’s representatives, implementing agencies and SSNNL.

8.0 Construction Planning and Scheduling

It is planned to complete the CADWM works by the end of December, 2019.

The details of Planning of balance CCA of 8,04,224 ha after March, 2017 as per submitted
MoU is as given below: -
Table 26: Physical and financial planning of SSP under CADWM

Year Physical Financial

(ha) (in Rs Cr)
Central share State Share Farmer’s share Total Est cost
2017-18 3,95,049 790.098 1059.181 4.741 1854.020
2018-19 2,71,175 542.350 749.824 3.254 1295.428
2019-20 1,38,000* 276.000 488.217 1.656 765.873
Total 8,04,224 1608.448 2297.222 9.651 3915.321
*Upto December 2019
The detailed planning for CADWM works under various activities as per revised MoU by the
State Govt. for the project as given in Annexure-X.

9.0 Progress of structural interventions

The branch wise progress of field channel is given in Appendix-I. The Under Ground Pipe
Line (UGPL) system is adopted in SSNNL instead of open field channel after 2014-15. The
CCA developed and length of UGPL/open field channel under CAD&WM is as given below:

Table 27: CCA developed and length of UGPL/open field channel under CAD&WM

Year CCA developed Length of UGPL Length of open field

( in ha) (in km) channel
(in km)
Up to March’15 369260 226.87 10216.92
2015-16 233186 6960.128 -
2016-17 385330 8354.176 -
2017-18 290061 7797.582
2018-19 2228.07 5342.834*
Total 1280065 28681.59 10216.92
* Upto March-2019

10.0 Field Visits:

The Monitoring Team comprising of Director (Monitoring) & Deputy Director (Monitoring)
visited the minors, sub-minors & fields and saw the on-farm development activities. The
team visited sub minors in the reaches of various distributaries and canals of the Sardar
Sarovar Project.

During 4th – 6th September 2019, following sub-minors were visited to see the on farm
development works.

a) UGPL Sub-minor off-taking from Sangadh distributary

On 5th September 2019 the well for off-taking UGPL sub-minor was visited.
b) UGPL Sub-minor off-taking from Sangadh distributary
On 5th September 2019 UGPL Sub-minor which offtakes from Manjuvas distributary was also
visited on 5th September 2019.
Due to excessive rainfall the fields were not approachable, therefore detailed field inspection
was not possible.

11.0 Quality Assessment

A centralized independent system for Quality Control and Vigilance is functional under the
Chief Engineer (Quality Control). For this purpose, three Quality Control Circles headed by
Superintending Engineers have been sanctioned.
QC-1 Circle, Gandhinagar supported by two flying squads headed by Executive Engineers is
looking after Canal Works of Phase I, Phase II, and Saurashtra Region.

QC-2 Circle, Ahmedabad supported by two flying squads headed by Executive Engineers is
looking after canal works of NMC beyond Ch. 263 km, North Gujarat and Kutch region.

NP Design Circle is entrusted with the work to look after Dam works and NMC Ch. 0 km to
Ch. 144 km.

Day to day quality control

supervision, sampling, testing etc.
is the responsibility of 23 Quality
Control Sub Divisions.

An Inquiry Cell, headed by an

Executive Engineer, in SSNNL
Head Office looks after the
Vigilance cases and Inquiry
matters.

The Quality Control setup is independent of the executing setup as it is under the direct
control of the Chairman and Managing Director, SSNNL. The Quality Control network is
adequate to maintain the Quality Assurance of the works being executed at various Project
locations efficiently and independently.

In addition to the independent centralized Quality Control mechanism as described above,

the field Chief Engineers and Superintending Engineers are fully responsible for quality
assurance of works under their jurisdiction. For this purpose, a Quality Control Division
Office is functional under each field Chief Engineer and one or more Quality Control Sub
Division Offices are functional under field Superintending Engineers depending on their
workload. The quality control manual “The guidelines for quality assurance and quality
control for various canal works”, Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd, Gandhinagar, July,
1997 is being followed to enforce quality control norms.

The test results of the construction material and pipeline work for which quality check and
laboratory testing is carried out at authorized laboratories. Suitable actions as per tender
specifications are being taken on the receipt of test results from laboratory. The procedure is
also supervised by the various relevant quality control sub division.

12.0 Progress of Non- structural interventions

Total number of WUA’s proposed to be registered is 4497 out of which 2998 WUA has been
formed and 2894 has been registered and 1215 have been handed over the work up to March-
2019.Further, the activated WUAs also collect water cess and 55 WUAs are engaged in
carrying out maintenance in their respective areas. The State Government has enacted
Participatory Irrigation Management Act in 2007. The details of WUA’s are given in
Appendix-II.
The water delivery system is planned to cater to village service area (VSA). Water is to be
supplied on a volumetric basis at the head of VSA. Water will be delivered only on the
demand by a WUA and not by the individuals.

13.0 Status of Development of Micro Irrigation

Development of micro irrigation is one of the most important aspect of the command area
development. Not only for the water saving purpose but it also important for preventing weed
growth, maximizing the yield with accurate irrigation and fertigation. The CADWM scheme
of Government of India makes it incumbent upon the state government to develop at least
10% of the command area with micro irrigation facilities. As per the revised MOU with
Government of Gujarat the total command area to be developed under micro irrigation in
respect of Sardar Sarovar project is 140080 hectares. The total outlay kept in the MOU for
the same is Rs. 700.37 crores.
As per the reports submitted by the project authority in i.e. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam
Limited, the development of micro irrigation in the command area of the project by SSNNL
is Nil. That means the central assistance given by Government of India under the CADWM
scheme has not yet been utilized for development of the micro irrigation. However, in the
recent times the project authorities have submitted that the Gujarat Green Revolution
company (GGRC) and undertaking of government of Gujarat is developing micro irrigation
across the state. The company is giving a subsidy of 60% to 90% to the farmers depending
upon the category. This company is developing micro irrigation in the command area of
Sardar Sarovar project also.

14.0 Financial programme and Progress

The cumulative expenditure upto March, 2017 is Rs 3330.048 crore and Cumulative CA
released is Rs 1144.8819 crore upto March 2017. The financial progress and further planning
is given below in the table: -
 Table 28: Physical and financial planning of SSP under CADWM

Year Phase CA Released Expenditure Remarks

Rs. In Lakhs Rs. In Lakhs

2004-05 Phase-I 2345.10 6006.05

2005-06 Phase-I 5132.18 14088.93
2006-07 Phase-I 0.00 16346.50
2007-08 Phase-I 0.00 8963.06
2008-09 Phase-I 0.00 4588.96
2009-10 Phase-I 0.00 5342.34
2010-11 Phase-I 893.86 4800.16 MoU period signed in the
2011-12 Phase-I 682.00 4440.28 year 2010-11 for phase-I
2012-13 Phase-I 1791.50 3860.333
2013-14 Phase-I 0 3483.992
Phase-II 0 296.00
2014-15 Phase-I 0 3109.78
Phase-II 0 5015.00
2015-16 Phase-I 625.7 7719.806 MoU was signed in March
Phase-II 34846.13 101353.00 2016 for phase-I and II
2016-17 Phase-I 5853.5 12614.20
Phase-II 62310.86 130976.4
2017-18 Phase-I & II 69047.767 122472.72
2018-19 Phase-I & II - 72034 Up to Aug -2018
Total 183528.6 527511.5
Planning
2017-18 79009.8 185402.008 As per submitted MoU for
2018-19 54235 129542.785 the project

2019-20 27600 76587.335

15.0 Points Needing Attentions

15.1 Slow pace of CCA development-

It has been observed that CCA development in the project is not as per targets envisaged in
the planning. Earlier, an MoU was signed in the year 2010-11between the MoWR, RD & GR
and the Govt. of Gujarat for the completion of CAD&WM of Phase-I of Sardar Sarovar
(Narmada) Project for three years i.e. 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13. After the gap of two
years, a new MoU was signed in March, 2016 between the MoWR, RD & GR and the Govt.
of Gujarat for phase-I and phase-II works for three years from 2015-16 to 2017-18. The
physical and financial planning and progress achieved during the previous MoU periods as
stated below in table 29:-
 Table 29: Physical and financial planning and progress of SSP in MoU periods
Phase Year Planning as per MoU Actual Progress Remarks
Physical Financial (in Physical Financial (in
(ha) Rs Cr) (ha) Rs Cr)
Phase-I 2010-11 5727 44.02 1508 48.00 There is a huge gap
2011-12 32110 164.46 328 44.40 between MoU
targets and
2012-13 67748 217.59 558 38.60
progress achieved
Total 105585 426.07 2394 131.00
as per earlier MoU.
There was no MoU in existence during the period 2013-14 and 2014-15
2015-16 41817 186.88 17132 77.20 There was MoU
2016-17 30472 162.61 24254 126.142 signed in March
Phase-II 2015-16 269999 783.77 214824 1013.53 2016 for the year
2015-16 to 2017-18
2016-17 494263 1631.14 361076 1309.764 for both the phases

It is obvious that creation of CCA development is slow as against targeted CCA development
with respect to MoU submitted by State Govt.

The reasons for slow pace of works vis-a-vis the targets as per MoU may be intimated,
particularly for the year 2015-16 and 2016-17.

15.2 Irrigation Potential Utilization-

Out of total proposed CCA development of 17.92 lakh ha, it is seen that up to July 2019,
CCA developed is 14.89 lakh ha. However, Irrigation Potential Utilised is only 10.67 lakh ha
(i.e. 71.7 % of CCA developed) for the water year 2018-19 (from July 2018 to March 2019).
It is clear that a major part of CCA development is unutilized. Various measures undertaken
for covering the developed CCA for utilization of water and to increase IP Utilization may be
intimated. Efforts for CAD should be prioritized in the areas where IP Creation has been
achieved or being achieved simultaneously.

While discussing with project authorities, it has been mentioned about land acquisition
problem at minor level being reason for bottlenecks in IP utilization. To overcome the land
acquisition issue, SSNNL has adopted use of Under Ground Pipeline beyond Minors to
supply water to farmer’s field and it is suggested to use micro irrigation on mass scale for
conservation of water.

As the IP utilization is significantly

less than the IP creation, all necessary
measures need to be taken up to
reduce the gap including the works on
CAD below minor. It may please be ensured that pari-passu development of command area
with the main canal works be undertaken so that the IP utilization is improved vis-a-vis the IP
creation. The volumetric assessment of water should be made before supplying the water to
farmer’s fields through UGPL so that use of water may be charged from WUAs
appropriately.

No flow measurement devices after Minors were seen during the visit. It is suggested that
proper flow measurement devices should be installed to measure the quantity of water to be
supplied to the fields.

It was noticed during the field visit that the Irrigation is being done in day hours only, due to
this the water is not available to all the farmers in the command area. The shortage of staff for
regulation of canal adds to this problem. It is suggested that concept of Canal Automation
may be taken up to meet these challenges.

It is suggested to use micro irrigation on mass scale wherever in conditions are conducive for
conservation of water to utilize the water more efficiently for the developed CCA. The water,
thus saved, can be utilized to increase irrigation intensive farming practices with modern
inputs, technologies and participatory management approach.

15.3 Training and field demonstrations

Proper training with field demonstrations is essential requirement to utilize the available
water efficiently. The officials involved in CAD activities and Farmers need training to
improve delivery of water from main system, warabandi, irrigation application at fields and
effective implementation of PIM. However, it has been observed that in the year 2017-18, it
is proposed to give training to 28300 farmers and officials and given training to 9660
officials. The reasons for not imparting training to the various stakeholders are to be
intimated.

It is suggested to give training and field demonstrations to the farmers and officials as per
planning to ensure proper utilization of water and O&M of CADWM works.

Training to beneficiary framers and implementing warabandi will not only increase the
irrigation potential but also save water and can help in environment protection.

15.4 Handing over operation and maintenance of CADWM works to WUA

The State Government has enacted Participatory Irrigation Management Act in 2007.Total
number of WUA’s proposed to be registered is 4467 out of which 2743 WUA has been
formed and 2573 has been registered and 1136 have been handed over the work up to
January, 2018. Further, the activated WUAs also collect water cess and 55 WUAs are
engaged in carrying out maintenance in their respective areas. It is obvious that handing over
charge of O&M of UGPL to WUA is very less. The reasons for the same may be explained.

The water delivery system is planned to cater to village service area (VSA). Water is to be
supplied on a volumetric basis at the head of VSA. Water will be delivered only on the
demand by a WUA and not by the individuals.

It is observed that utilization of created potential is much less than IP created. In order to
increase utilization of created potential, pari-passu implementation of PIM is essential. It is
desirable that more & more WUAs are activated & encouraged to take-over maintenance of
the distribution network under them.

As the project is on the advanced stage of completion and also Irrigation benefits are being
realized to considerable extent, it is suggested that collection of water charges from farmers
through Water User Association may be initiated at the earliest.

15.5 Prevention of silt in the UGPL

In the last few years, the UGPL has been adopted as sub-minors and large command area has
been covered with UGPL. The concept of UGPL is very sound; however, it will require
cooperation from the water user associations, proper maintenance of the system and cordial
relations among the farmers to
effectively implement it. One of the
major potential issues that can
create difficulties for the operation
of UGPL is the silting. Even though
sufficient precaution has been taken
in the design of the UGPL, so that
there is minimum silt ingress into
the pipes, during the visit it is seen
that huge amount of clay comes into the canal network due to wind, fall from the canal banks
and also due to the farming activities. This silt needs to be removed very regularly. The silt is
of substantial quantity and the provisions made for trapping it may be inadequate. During the
visit it was seen that at many places the kundi was largely covered by silt (particularly in the
desert areas). It is essential that the underground pipelines are free from silt because once the
silt enters into the pipeline it will be very difficult to remove it. Ingress of stilt will lead to
progressive blocking of the water-way and progressive reduction in the flow discharge.

It is very important that SSNNL creates a silt prevention policy and implements it on ground
through water user associations, NGOs and contractors. It is also very important to sensitize
the farmers about the difficulties that may arise due to silt ingress.

15.6 Strengthening the water user Associations

Infrastructure grant

One of the important activities to establish and strengthen the water user association is the
infrastructure grant and functional grant. The infrastructure grant is to be used for creating a
office infrastructure for the water user Association so that they can have the regular meetings
there and they can use office for the Record Keeping and other activities. However, it is seen
that till date not a single water user association has been given the infrastructure grant, nor
there is any standard norms for construction of their office and the facilities that it can have.
The progress of the project authorities in this respect is NIL. It is very important that the Non-
governmental organizations which have been given the task of strengthening the water user
Association take up the issue of work of infrastructure development in consultation with the
project authorities also. NGO can make the efforts in the local Gram Sabha to get the
resolution passed for providing necessary land to the water user association for construction
of office. The project authorities need to direct all the NGOs to work in this direction

Functional grant

Functional grant @ Rs.1200 per hectare is to be provided to the water user Association so
that they can start their work with this financial support. The functional grant is to be
deposited as a fixed deposit and the interest from this fixed deposit is to be used by the
association for its various activities. The release of functional grant is very important so that
the water user associations can have some income to spend on various activities. Till date the
projected authorities have not given any function grant to the water user associations. The
progress on this component is Nil. The central assistance released during 17-18 and also 18-
19 had the component for functional grant as well as infrastructure grant, however the same
has not yet been used at all for releasing it further to the water user associations.
In respect of CADWM, as per the MOU, there are structural and non-structural items on
which the progress is to be achieved. It is seen that most of the progress is only on the
structural items whereas for non-structural items the progress is very minimal. The progress
on training of water user association, demonstrations, study tours is also very less. It is
essential that the items agreed as per the Memorandum of understanding are followed strictly
in respect of physical progress. The lopsided progress in favour of structural components
should be avoided. Both the components that is structural and non-structural must be
implemented simultaneously, so as to get maximum benefits of the CADWM scheme.

15.7 Discrepancies in the MIS system

It is seen that there is a large discrepancy between the progress reported through quarterly
reports and the progress entered into the management information system (MIS). The issue
has been raised number of times however the discrepancy still persists. It is important that the
physical progress as submitted to this office and physical progress as entered into the MIS
system are perfectly in coherence with each other. The project authorities may take necessary
action and correct the discrepancies in shortest duration of time.

The irrigation potential created is much more than the irrigation potential utilized. This
indicates that even though the water infrastructure has been created, the water flow does not
flow to the till end and there may be many areas where water actually does not reach. It is
important that such areas may be identified, monitored and remedial actions taken. Use of
GIS tools and Remote Sensing images can be very helpful in such cases. It is suggested that
the project authorities may take the help of satellite imagery which is taken on a periodical
basis to monitor the irrigation potential utilised, so that the bottlenecks are identified and
remedial measures are taken.

15.8 Monitoring of the work entrusted to the NGOs

The project authority has entrusted the work of strengthening of the water user associations to
Non-governmental organizations. The work starting from socio-economical survey to
operationalization of the water user associations has been divided into six stages. During the
visit, it was seen that not much progress has taken place. At many places even the water user
Association has been formed, however, on ground little work is done by the water user
Association and in many places the associations are defunct. It is important that the Non-
governmental organizations deliver on the mandate given to them. For this to happen, the
project authorities need to monitor the work of the NGOs very closely on a periodical basis
with strict time table for the various activities. Regular meetings need to be conducted with
the NGOs at the field level and also at the Chief Engineer level so as to understand their
difficulties, to identify the issues and take remedial actions. This may require the capacity
building of the NGOs itself. The project activities can conduct workshops and conferences
for the sensitization of the NGOs and also to provide a common platform for sharing of the
experiences, difficulties and success stories. This interaction can also help in putting the work
of the NGOs in a mission mode.

15.9 Approach towards NGO work.

There is a need to change the approach of the project authorities towards the strengthening of
water user associations. It must be appreciated that participatory irrigation management is
more of issue of social conditioning then technical or contractual job. Just giving the work
on contract to NGOs may not be sufficient. It will require very close coordination,
monitoring, support and Proactive approach by the field officials of the project authorities. It
may also require frequent interactions with the NGOs as well as farmers and farmer’s
representatives. It may also require few confidence building measures to create a cordial
atmosphere for the growth of the water user associations. It will also require training and
capacity building of the water user associations as well as NGOs. And these activities will
require attention, time and efforts from the project authority side.

15.10 Development of micro irrigation

The Memorandum of understanding has a provision for development of micro irrigation in

the command area at least for 10% of the total area. The proposed area to be brought under
micro irrigation is about 1.4 lakh hector as proposed by the project authorities. However, the
progress on this component is also very less. The work being done by GGRC in developing
micro irrigation in SSP command has been provided as the progress in this respect. However,
this progress is also much less than the targets specified for the respective years in the MoU.
Decisive action needs to be taken in implementing migration as per the targets given in MoU.

15.11 Progress Report of CADWM works

For effective monitoring, it is very essential that the physical and financial progress is
compiled efficiently and promptly. In respect of CADWM, it is seen that the physical and
financial progress becomes available only after a gap of almost three months or so. This is
not good for the proper monitoring purposes. A robust system must be established where in
the field organizations must be told to submit the physical as well as financial progress by the
15th of every month in respect of all parameters defined for the progress. Monthly
compilation of the progress is very important and the same should be submitted to the
Monitoring Directorate regularly.
15.12 Use of RS/GIS in monitoring

The technological advances in the field of Remote sensing and GIS makes it possible to
monitor infrastructure development works which are geographically scattered on a large area.
These tools are ideal for monitoring the AIBP as well as CAD works. The project authorities
may establish necessary infrastructure and their headquarters as well as the field level so that
physical progress on each item is mapped properly and is available to the higher levels of
Administration and Management of the project authorities and also the Government of India
officials whenever it is required.

16.0 Bottlenecks

There are many bottlenecks in construction of sub minor and their utilization properly.

16.1 Standing crops during the construction of sub minors

The sub minors (UGPL) are constructed in the fields of farmers where crops are standing for
a major part of year and farmers do not allow any construction activity at that time. The work
can be started only after harvesting the crops and this causes delay in the construction work.
Suitable planning in advance with concurrence of farmers may be adopted to avoid this type
of delay.

16.2 Shortage of staff

It has been noticed that there is acute shortage of technical as well as supporting staff strength
in the various cadres of SSNNL. The acute shortage of technical manpower in all class
ranging from Chief Engineer to junior Engineers/section officers are required to be managed
by filling the vacancies on top priority for achieving the targets in the remaining two years of
the Project execution.

16.3 Low collection of water charges:

As the project is on the advanced stage of completion and also Irrigation benefits are to be
realized to the maximum extent, it is suggested that collection of water charges from farmers
through Water User Association may be initiated at the earliest.

17.0 Compliance of CWC Observations contained in the previous 33rd and 34th status
report

Compliance of the 33rd and 34th status report is awaited from the Project Authority.
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