Development of micro-watershed atlas of Haryana state-a citizen centric Perspective

The watershed of a river system is an ideal unit for agriculture development. The subwatersheds and micro-watersheds are manageable units for development and administration. The aim of this paper is the development of Micro-Watershed code of Haryana State, India, to provide a unique national code in an easy and understandable format. It helps in ensuring uniformity in the use of micro watershed code across the Nation in the soil and water management programmes. The spatial micro-watershed atlas of Haryana State developed with 799 sub-watersheds and 5264 Micro watersheds. Each one is having distinct spatial extent with unique national code helps to avoid duplication of activities with similar objectives under different ministries in one micro watershed. Procedures adopted in making available the Geospatial information on platform-free basis is also discussed along with an example. The development of Micro-watershed Atlas of Haryana State is useful for watershed management programmers at village level for the government and non-government organizations.