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Study on Extent of People’s Participation in Integrated Watershed Management Programme

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Title Study on Extent of People’s Participation in Integrated Watershed Management Programme
 
Creator Rupender Kumar
 
Contributor Sheoran, D.K.
 
Subject People’s Participation, Watershed Management
 
Description The present study was conducted in Bhiwani and Yamunanagar district of Haryana state. Eight villages were
selected randomly i.e. Bhaganwala-Sawad-Salapur-Dhanaura as watershed villages and Kharkhadisohan-Missri-BihtaSabhapur as non-watershed villages. Twenty respondents from each village were selected randomly for the study,
having a total sample of 160 respondents. The specific objectives of present study were (1) To study the extent of
people’s participation in the process of implementation of Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) (2)
To study the impact of IWMP activities in the project area (3) To study the association of personal variable of
respondents and their association with level of participation (4) To identify the constraints perceived by the respondents
in implementation of programme.
The data were collected through pre-tested structured interview schedule ten important independent variables
namely, age, education, family education, land holding, socio-economic status, extension contact, mass-media exposure,
scientific orientation, risk orientation and economic motivation and namely, people’s participation, impact assessment
and constraints perceived by the respondents in Integrated Watershed Management Programme were the dependent
variables.
Majority of the respondents had medium level of participation at all the stages of Integrated Watershed
Management Programme. people’s participation was assessed maximum in resource analysis and planning stage
followed by other stges of Integrated Watershed Management Programme.
The impact of Integrated Watershed Management Programme was assessed by comparing the response of
respondents from watershed and non-watershed villages towards some common agricultural parameters. The average
yield of crops, adoption level of crops production practices, adoption level of animal husbandry practices of respondents
from watershed villages was found higher as compare to respondents from non-watershed villages.
The study revealed that selected independent variables i.e. education, family education, socio-economic
status, mass-media exposure, extension contact, risk orientation and economic motivation with the respondents from
watershed villages, the results showed the positive relationship with cropping intensity, productivity of crops, adoption
of crops and animal husbandry practices as compare to the respondents from non-watershed villages.
The constraint analysis revealed that low level of awareness regarding programme benefits, lack of clear
understanding of project objectives, local political interference, irregularity in payment of wages, lack of economic
motivation, lack of collective action and decision made at higher level without consulting people, lack of demonstration
were the constraints perceived by the respondents as serious to very serious constraints in the implementation of
Integrated Watershed Management Programme.
 
Date 2016-09-10T09:38:04Z
2016-09-10T09:38:04Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/76347
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU