Parliament Question: Special irrigation support to drought-prone areas

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *166 ANSWERED ON 09.03.2026 SPECIAL IRRIGATION SUPPORT TO DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS *166 SHRI MASTHAN RAO YADAV BEEDHA: Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state: (a) whether Government is providing any special financial assistance for development of irrigation projects in drought-prone regions; (b) if so, details of the number of project proposals received and approved for special irrigation projects in drought-prone regions during the last three years, State-wise and district-wise, particularly for the State of Andhra Pradesh; (c) the details of funds sanctioned and disbursed for such irrigation projects during the said period, district- wise; and (d) the details of the areas brought under cultivation through these projects during the last three years, in the State of Andhra Pradesh, district-wise? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF JAL SHAKTI (SHRI C R PATIL) (a) to (d) : A statement is laid on the Table of the House. 1STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (d) OF STARRED QUESTION NO. *166 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2026 IN RAJYA SABHA REGARDING “SPECIAL IRRIGATION SUPPORT TO DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS” (a) to (d) Yes. Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) was launched during the year 2015-16, with the aim to enhance physical access of water on farm and expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency, introduce sustainable water conservation practices etc. Ninety-Nine (99) ongoing Major/Medium Irrigation projects (and 7 phases) were identified and included under Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) component of PMKSY during 2016-17, in consultation with States, to be completed in phases. Out of them fifty-nine (59) projects benefit drought prone areas in the country, including seven (07) projects benefitting drought prone areas of Andhra Pradesh. To address the issue of development of irrigation in water scarce drought prone areas in India, special provisions were made in criteria for selection of projects and central funding ratio during implementation of PMKSY during 2021-26. Eligibility criterion of having at least fifty percent (50%) physical progress for inclusion of projects under PMKSY-AIBP relaxed for the projects having more than 50% command falling in drought prone area. Further, the prevailing funding pattern of 25 (Centre) : 75 (State) for projects in general category states also enhanced to 60 (Centre) : 40 (State) for projects benefitting drought prone area in proportion to their drought prone command area. Nineteen (19) major and medium irrigation projects have been taken up for funding under PMKSY- AIBP after approval of implementation of PMKSY for the period of 2021-26. Out of them five (05) projects benefit drought prone areas. Fourteen (14) clusters comprising 1731 Surface Minor Irrigation (SMI) projects have been included under Har Khet Ko Pani (HKKP) Component of PMKSY during 2021-26. Out of them three (03) clusters comprising 214 SMI schemes benefit drought prone regions. However, no project of Andhra Pradesh has been included under PMKSY-AIBP/ HKKP in last three years. In addition, a Special Package scheme for completion of 8 Major and Medium and 83 Surface Minor irrigation projects to address agrarian distress in Vidarbha and Marathwada and other chronically drought prone areas of rest of Maharashtra has also been approved by Government of India in July, 2018. State wise, district wise details, central assistance provided and irrigation potential created through these projects in last three years are given at Annexure. *** 2ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) to (d) OF RAJYA SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *166 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2026 REGARDING “SPECIAL IRRIGATION SUPPORT TO DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS” ANNEXURE - A Details of Irrigation Projects benefitting drought prone areas included under PMKSY-AIBP since 2021-22 Mother Central Assistance Irrigation sanction S. Districts released in Rs Crore Potential State Project Name issued N. Benefitted Created in 2023- 2024- 2025-26 2022-23 Th. Ha 24 25 1 Jihe Kathapur Project Satara 32.54 26.81 141.92 19.80 9.99 Bodwad Parisar Sinchan Jalgaon, 2 - - - 60.20 - Maharashtra Yojana Stage-I Buldhana Lower Tapi Stage-1 3 Jalgaon - - - 27.25 - Project Baran, Parwan Multipurpose 4 Rajasthan Jhalawar, - 154.88 203.4 76.32 20.7 project Kota Tirunelveli, 5 Tamil Nadu Kannadian channel* 25.7 - - - 7.6 Thoothukudi *Project completed ANNEXURE B Details of Completed Irrigation Projects benefitting drought prone areas included under PMKSY- AIBP during 2015-16 Central Irrigation Assistance Potential S. State Project Name Districts Benefitted provided Created N. since 2016-17 since 2016-17 in Rs. Crore in Th. Ha 1 Bihar Durgawati Rohtas, Kaimur 72.42 32.20 2 Chhattisgarh Maniyari Tank Bilaspur 3.62 0.30 3 Sri Rameswar Irrigation Belgaum 0 0.82 4 Bhima LIS Gulbarga 41.46 2.95 Karnataka 5 Karanja Bidar 35.15 4.15 6 NLBC System Project Bijapur, Gulbarga 929.40 99.70 Indira Sagar Project 7 Khandwa, Khargaon 23.68 8.60 Canal Phase - I & II Indira Sagar Project Khandwa, 8 Canal Phase - V 9.51 22.61 KhargaonBarwani Madhya (Khargone Lift ) Pradesh Bansagar Unit 2 Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, 9 68.02 5.67 Shahdol 10 Mahi Project Dhar, Jhabua 5.97 5.96 Omkareshwar Project Khandwa, Khargaon, 11 16.91 15.80 Canal Phase-II Dhar 3Omkareshwar Project 12 Dhar 31.93 2.62 Canal Phase-III Indira Sagar Project 13 Badwani 110.33 15.09 Canal Phase - III Indira Sagar Project 14 Barwani 85.47 10.20 Canal Phase - IV 15 Lower Panzara Dhule 15.62 3.22 16 Dongargaon Chandrapur 5.88 0.79 Nandur Madhmeshwar 17 Aurangabad 17.24 16.52 Ph-II 18 Upper Kundalika Beed 10.92 2.70 19 Khadakpurna Buldhana 40.16 8.57 20 Maharashtra Dhom Balaakwadi Pune / Satara 51.06 7.88 21 Krishna Koyana Lift Solapur, Sangli 303.86 66.20 22 Tarali Satara 72.06 8.57 23 Sangola Branch Canal Solapur, 32.43 5.20 24 Bembla Yavatmal (V) 307.17 12.43 Yavatmal (V), 25 Upper Pen Ganga 241.96 10.64 (Nanded(M), Hingoli 26 Upper Indravati Kalahandi 18.00 0.56 27 Rukura-Tribal Sundargarh 25.12 7.65 28 RET irrigation Kalahandi 96.12 8.50 Odisha 29 Telengiri Koraput 199.44 15.18 30 Lower Indra Nuapada, Balangir 104.85 19.84 31 Subernarekha Mayurbhanj 603.42 36.51 32 Rajasthan Narmada Canal Jalore&Barmer 427.82 6.71 33 Gollavagu Project Mancherial 4.78 1.83 34 Rallivagu project Mancherial 0 0.20 35 Mathadivagu Project Adilabad 5.34 0.65 Sri Komaram Bheem Komaram Bheem 36 0 5.18 project Asifabad Telangana Peddavagu @ Neelwai 37 Mancherial 0 3.65 project Warangal (Rural), Memboobabad, 38 SRSPSt.II 39.29 13.25 Khammam, Nalgonda, Jangaon and Suryapet Uttar 39 Bansagar Canal Allahabad, Mirzapur 143.51 100.13 Pradesh ANNEXURE C Details of Ongoing Irrigation Projects benefitting drought prone areas included under PMKSY- AIBP during 2015-16 Central Irrigation Assistance Potential S. provided Created State Project Name Districts Benefitted N. since 2016-17 since in Rs. Crore 2016-17 in Th. Ha 1 Andhra Gundlakamma Prakasham 11.79 4.98 42 Pradesh Tadipudi LIS W.Godavari 0 1.62 3 Thotapally Srikakulam, Vijayanagram 0 14.93 4 Musurumilli E.Godavari 7.40 0.15 E.Godavari, 5 Pushkara LIS 0 1.93 Vishakhapatnam 6 Yerracalva W.Godavari 0 0.41 7 TarakaramTeertasagaram ViJayanagaram 3.42 0 8 Bihar Punpun Patna, Arwal, Jehanabad 37.82 0 Narmada, Vadodra, Bharuch, Chhota Udepur, Panchmahel, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Kheda, 9 Gujarat Sardar Sarovar Project Anand, Mehsana, 4545.56 614.90 Surendranagar, Morbi, Botad, Bhavnagar, Kachchh, Banskantha, Patan Upper Tunga Irrigation Haveri, Simoga, 10 Karnataka 184.04 9.24 Project Davengere 11 Waghur Jalgaon 195.02 16.07 12 Lower Pedhi Amravati, Akola 20.69 0 Maharashtra Nagpur, 13 Gosikhurd (NP) 905.43 141.24 Bhandara,Chandrapur 14 Odisha Kanupur Keonjhar 133.91 15.24 Jayashankar 15 Palemvagu Project 0 0.16 Bhoopalapally Mahaboobnagar, Rajiv Bheema L.I. 16 Wanaparthy & 64.75 56.25 Scheme Nagarkurnool Peddavagu @ Komaram Bheem 17 2.29 0 Jagannathpur Asifabad Rajanna Sircilla, Telangana Indiramma Flood Flow Karimnagar, Siddipet, 18 0 21.20 Canal Warangal Urban, Jangaon, Jagtiyal & Peddapally Hanamkondla, Jayashankar Bhoopalpally, Jangaon, Siddipet, 19 J. Chokha Rao LIS 865.03 93.44 Yadadri, Suryapet and Karimnagar, Warangal, Mahboobabad, Mulugu 20 Uttar Pradesh Arjun Sahayak Mahoba, Hamirpur, Banda 116.57 57.64 ANNEXURE D Details of SMI Schemes benefitting drought pro ne areas included under PMKSY-HKKP since 2021-22 Mother Irrigation Central Assistance S. Districts sanction Potential State Schemes released in Rs Crore N. Benefitted issued Created in 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Th. Ha 1 Karnataka 138 SMI Schemes Kalaburagi, 30.00 37.50 37.50 80.54 9.593 5of 2022-23 Yadagir 50 SMI Schemes of Dharwad 2 - - - 9.16 - 2024-25 26 SMI Schemes of Tumkur 3 - - - 21.835 - 2024-25 ANNEXURE -E Details of Projects under Special Package scheme to address agrarian distress in Vidarbha and Marathwada and other chronically drought prone areas of rest of Maharashtra Central Irrigation Assistance Districts Potential Created S.N. Project Name provided Benefitted during 2018-25 during 2018-25 in Th. Ha in Rs. Crore Satara, Sangli, 1 Tembhu LIS 297.15 96.32 Solapur 2 Urmodi Project Satara 38.25 22.98 Sulwade Jamphal Kanoli L.I. 3 Dhule 464.15 0 Scheme Shelgaon Barrage Medium 4 Jalgaon 135.26 11.40 Project 5 Ghungshi Barrage LIS Akola 37.72 6.66 Purna Barrage No.2 6 Akola 16.55 0 (Nerdhamana) 7 Jigaon Project Buldhana, Akola 1176.05 0 8 Warkhed Londhe Project Jalgaon 88.79 0 Amaravati, AkolamWashim, Yavatmal, Buldhana, Wardha districts of 83 Surface Minor Irrigation 9 Vidarbha and 770.04 54.26 Projects Aurangabad, Jalna, Naded, Latur and Beed districts of Marathwada ***** 6