Newsletter No. 64;
Year
Program/Policy/Guideline
Major objective(s)
Rehabilitate micro-watersheds for the
purpose of regeneration of
Natural resources and sustainable
livelihoods, using a participatory
approach.
Relevant Institution
National Bank for
Agriculture and Rural
Development (NA-BARD)
and the Watershed
Organisation Trust (WOTR)
1992 Indo-German Watershed
Development Pro-
gramme8 1994 Guidelines for Watershed
Development9 Provide common guidelines for WSD
focused on the watershed
scale and having a participatory focus MoRD
Watershed Development
Fund10 Provide financial support to scale up
successful participatory
WSD projects in 100 priority districts; MoA and National Bank
for Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD)
1999–2000
2001 Common Guidelines for
Watershed Development
(Revised)11
2002 National Afforestation
Programme12
Update the 1994 WSD guidelines to have
a more participatory and project- specific
focus with greater flexibility in
implementation. Applicable to IWDP,
DPAP, DDP, and other programs
notified by GOI.
Develop forest resources using a
participatory approach and
build capacity of fringe communities.
Formulated by the merger of IAEPS and
three other forestry programs to reduce
the multiplicity of schemes.
IRBMS
MoRD
MoEF
MoRD
2003
Hariyali Guidelines13
2005
Mahatma Gandhi
National Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme
(MGNREGS)14
2006 Parthasarathy Committee
report15
2006 National Rainfed Area
Authority (NRAA)16
Integrate community institutions more
meaningfully in DPP, DPAP, and IWDP
and simplify procedures.
Enhance livelihood security in rural areas
by providing at least 100 days of
guaranteed wage employment a year to
every house-hold whose adult members
volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
The Parthasarathy Committee was
established as a Technical Committee to
evaluate the DPAP, DDP, and IWDP. In
2006, the Committee released a report
that served as a review of India’s
Watershed Program. The Committee’s
report serves as the basis of the
Neeranchal Guidelines and the NRAA.
Create common guidelines for all WSD
schemes under the different ministries
for the development of rainfed farming
systems.
MoRD
MoRD
Planning Commission
9
Integrated River Basin Management Society