THERE IS NO MASTER PLAN OF THE IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER SHED DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE PROPOSED UNDER ( WDC-PMKSY) BY THE GOI

The parliamentary standing committee working on the subject matter deliberation required for the development of Rural areas and the land resources pertinent to the Irrigation department has observed during the course of table talk both related to Lok Sabha and the Rajya sabha that works going very slow and the central funds could not be released in 2021 due to unspent balance available with the state government of the HP by way and virtue of which the watershed development components inthe state are lagging behind even though the committee strongly recommend that the state concerned must focus on efficacious implementation of the projects taken in hand so that sanctioned projects may be completed well in time to bring adequate irrigation facilities in the rain fed areas of the state/country .It is particularly mentioned here that the Himachal Pradesh is facing problem of irrigation infrastructures and only five percent of the cultivated lands are having facilities of the various schemes where punjab the neighbouring state is having high irrigation intensity so the government must follow adequate standard of the progress of existing and proposed schemes/ projects so that funds allocated to the state may be used to benefit the farmers facing problems due to lack of the irrigation facilities in the state of HP