Constraint analysis of the officials of project and non-project areas in tank management

Officials are one of the main key stakeholders of any developmental activity viz situation and problem analysis, objectives, teaching plan of work, evaluation and reconsideration stages and they strive hard to implement the policies of government but they are often neglected during reconsideration of programmes. Community-based tank management (CBTM) reforms are implemented in India to facilitate farmers’ participation in tank management through tank user groups. The main stakeholders in the tank management are tank users and officials. Under the present study in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, three districts (Mahaboobnagar from Telangana, Vizianagaram from coastal Andhra and Chittoor from Rayalaseema) were selected purposively. Officials were selected both from project and non-project tank areas in each district. From the tanks operated under project area in each selected district 10 officials were selected randomly who were discharging the mandate of APCBTMP. Whereas from the tanks operated under non-project area in each selected district 10 officials were selected randomly representing department of agriculture and I & CAD. Thus in total 60 officials were selected for the study. The constraints were elicited by the project and non-project officials in tank management and these constraints were grouped under five categories namely tank related, job related, organization related, technical related and finance related. The constraints under each category were ranked based on frequency and percentage in case of both project and non-project tank users. Ex post facto research design was adopted in the present study.