Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
Kunal S Hake, US Kadam, ST Patil, PM Ingle and HT Jadhav

Abstract:
The study was conducted on “The Performance Evaluation of Water Users Association: A Case Study of Shree Datta Water User Association Mirewadi”. Under this study, the performance indicators in Shree Datta WUA were determined for year 2020-21. WUA in canal irrigation network were characterized and evaluation of irrigation performance was evaluated using different performance indicators. The water delivery indicator in tail-end supply ratio was found 0.24, and poor structure ratio was found 0.5 in Shree Datta WUA. In financials, fee collection performance was found (0.4) and manpower number ratio was found (0.01) in Shree Datta WUA which make it not satisfactory. The analysis of financial indicators showed that the scheme had a serious problem about the collection of water fees i.e. revenue or irrigation charges collected from scheme were less than that of total operation and maintenance expenditure. The analysis of agricultural performance indicators showed that the production value of different crops grown in command area were lower than that of the recommended package of practices.The Water Delivery Capacity (WDC) for whole Shree Datta WUA command area was calculated as 2.25 which represents the canal capacity was sufficient to meet the peak consumptive requirement.