LOWER BHAVANI PROJECT COMMAND AND
WATER USERS’ ASSOCIATION by Mr. Kasiannan, Mr. Ramasamy and Mr. Vadivelu

Status of WUCs in Cauvery CADA

DC presidents of AP tour Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

The Irrigation and Command Area Development (I&CAD), Government of Andhra Pradesh recently completed elections to Distributary Committee and is contemplating to hold elections for the project committees. The APFMIS Act 1997, emphasises formation of water users associations at three levels i.e. WUAs at primary level, Distributary Committees at Distributary level and Project Committees at project level.

PIM in AP

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Since 2003, Water Management has been entrusted to eligible WUCs. Water will be supplied to every WUCs on a volumetric supply. Water is allocated to each WUCs based on the available water, tentative rainfall based on the time series data, and the indent placed by the WUCs in the command area. In Ghataprabha project, four out of six WUCs in one distributary canal is successfully implementing the water management and collecting water charges.