*Professor, Department of Public Administration, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India
**Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, R.K.M.V., Shimla, India
Online published on 11 July, 2017.
The concept of watershed based policy-making was first coined in United State of America (USA), by John Wesley Powell, head of United States (US) Geographical Survey in 1887. The John Wesley Powell, proposed to congress that new states in the semi-arid west be organised and governed in accordance with appropriate watershed boundaries rather than straight line-political boundaries. He called the new watershed approach an ideal medium for a new form of self-government The present Article deals with the performance evaluation of watershed NGO during the period 2003–04 to 2007–08, in the field of watershed development programmes (IWDP-III) in Kandaghat block of district Solan. This Article highlights the achievements made by watershed NGO based on secondary data and deals with the financial and physical achievements made by NGO during the study period based on secondary data. Since, the watershed projects were sanctioned for the period of five years and the data covered in the present study has been presented from 2003–04 to 2007–08. Present Paper concludes with some practical suggestions and recommendations for future prospective of watershed programmes and how NGO can overcome these shortcomings and hurdles and can contribute effectively for the planning and implementation of watershed programmes in future.
