Karnataka Community-Based Tank Management Project

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The project development objective of the Karnataka Community Based Tank Management Project is to improve rural livelihoods and reduce poverty by developing and strengthening community-based approaches to improving and managing selected tank systems. The project adopts a programmatic approach to community-based tank management and covers the first phase of this program--2000 tanks of the estimated 37,000 minor irrigation tanks in the state 0r 72,000 ha of the 685,000 ha (11 percent) of the estimated command area irrigated by tanks. The project consists of three components: 1) establishing an enabling environment for the sustainable, decentralized management of tank systems; 2) strengthening community-based institutions to assume responsibility for tank system development and management; and 3) undertaking tank system improvements. The third component is further sub-divided into: a) improving the operational performance of selected tank systems through a menu of physical interventions identified and executed by local users and b) facilitating technical training and on-farm demonstrations in water management, agriculture, and horticulture development, fisheries, forestry, and fodder production to help ensure that improved water storage and efficiency is translated into increased household incomes.