Physical and financial performance of watershed development programmes in Haryana

Haryana is primarily an agricultural state and about 75 per cent of the area is irrigated. Even then, large part of the state is remaining rain fed area. Watershed development programmes (WDP) implemented to enable multi-cropping and the introduction of diverse agro-based activities, which help to provide sustainable livelihoods to the people residing in the watershed area. These objectives would be achieved when physical and financial performance has been measured. So, this study was conducted to analysis the physical and financial performance of Pre-Haryali and Haryali watershed development programmes under DDP and IWDP in Haryana. The present study has been taken only the watershed programmes being undertaken by the Haryana Rural Development Department which were Desert Development Programme (DDP) and Integrated Wasteland Development Programme (IWDP). The based on secondary data related to Pre-Haryali projects from 1995–96 to 2002–03 and Haryali Projects taken from 2003–04 to 2006–07 under DDP and IWDP. The study found that financial performance of Pre-Haryali projects were better than Haryali projects under both programmes, but physical performance was not according to the financial performance. The financial performance of Haryali projects was not better than Pre-Haryali projects, but achievement related to physical targets, Haryali projects were perform better than Pre-Haryali projects under the both programmes.