Technical Support to Regeneration of DBIs project by Yuva Mitr, Sinnar

Project Description: 

Yuva Mitra NGO in Sinnar taluka, Nashik district has carried out regeneration of existing British period Diversion based Irrigation Systems (DBI) on the river Devanadi through a grant from Tata Trust over the past two years. A Program, Technical and Institutional review of the same was carried out by Deloitte for Tata Trusts. The report was submitted in August 2016.

TDSC had shown an interest in carrying out a process review, utilization and impact assessment of the same, involving mapping, water flow estimations, beneficiary socio-economic analysis, etc. The main high-level priority recommendations by Deloitte are also on the same lines and thus, TDSC is once again proposed certain activities, to be jointly implemented by TDSC and Yuva-Mitra in the region and the project was executed between October 2016 and January 2017.

 

Objectives of engagement:

Implementing high priority technical recommendations from a review by Deloitte.

Impact assessment of DBI works already implemented.

 

Process review and recommendations for planning, design and implementation of future DBI works.

Project Deliverables

mapping of river and DBI structures, command mapping, well monitoring and Socio-economic impact analysis survey in 2 villages.

Project Documents
  • Agreement and proposal for study with Yuva Mitra (pdf)
  • Relevant Data
  • TDSL report (pdf)
  • Anish MTech report stage 1 and stage 2 (pdf)
Principal investigator
  • Prof Milind Sohoni, CSE
  • Prof Purushottam Kulkarni, CSE
Project Outputs
Team
Swapnil Jadhav, Ankita Prayag, and Mahesh Labade from TDSC Gopal Chavan, Pooja Prasad and Hemant Belsare – PhD students at CTARA Anish Hola – Mtech student at CTARA TDSL students also worked on preliminary study in the area
TDSC Project Status
Completed