Database of Traditional Water Resources

According to Third Minor Irrigation Census conducted by Ministry of Water Resources with reference year 2000-2001, the number of water bodies identified in the country are 5.56 lakh.  The total number of water bodies not in use are 85807.  Out of 5.56 lakh water bodies, there are 2.39lakh public owned water bodies.  The State-wise details of public owned water bodies are given below:- State-wise details of Public owned Water Bodies (as per 3rd Minor Irrigation Census conducted by Ministry of Water resources with reference year 2000-2001) S.No. Name of State Number of Public owned Water Bodies (as per 3rd minor Irrigation census by MoWR with reference year 2000- 2001) 1 ANDHRA PRADESH 67236 2 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 186 3 ASSAM 170 4 BIHAR 12345 5 CHHATTISGARH 32486 6 GOA 137 7 GUJARAT 2742 8 HARYANA 12 9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 361 10 JAMMU & KASHMIR 312 11 JHARKHAND 16552 12 KARNATAKA 22582 13 KERALA 2977 14 MADHYA PRADESH 7947 15 MAHARASHTRA 16429 16 MANIPUR 2 17 MEGHALAYA 87 18 MIZORAM 0 19 NAGALAND 0 20 ORISSA 18250 21 PUNJAB 7 22 RAJASTHAN 1844 23 SIKKIM 423 24 TAMIL NADU 25107 25 TRIPURA 122 26 UTTAR PRADESH 70 27 UTTARANCHAL 5188 28 WEST BENGAL 5350 29 ANDAMAN & NIKOBARS 4 30 CHANDIGARH 0 31 DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI 12 32 DELHI 0 33 PONDICHERRY 198 TOTAL : 239138 Government had approved a State Sector Scheme for Repair, Renovation & Restoration (RRR) of water bodies with two components (i) one with external assistance with an outlay of Rs. 1500 crore and (ii) another with domestic support with an outlay of Rs. 1250 crore for implementation during XI Five Year Plan period.             Under the scheme of RRR of water bodies with external assistance, 75% is loan taken by Government of India from the World Bank and is passed on to the concerned States on back to back basis and is to be repaid by the States. The balance 25% loan is taken as liability of Government of India and passed on as additional central assistance (100% grant) to the States for the projects. Under the scheme of RRR of water bodies with domestic support, 90% of the project cost is provided as central grant by the Government of India to the projects in the States of North-Eastern Region, hilly States namely, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and  undividedKoraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi (KBK) districts of Odisha and the projects benefitting tribal areas, drought prone areas and naxal affected areas and 10% of the project cost is provided by the respective State Governments. The projects benefitting other areas of the States are eligible for 25% central assistance (grant). This information was given by the Minister of State for Water Resources and Minority AffairsShri Vincent H. Pala in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. … MA/VN (Release ID :87229)