For Rainfed India
Last year in his Independence speech PM had hinted about institutional mechanism through which such a watershed development programme can be implemented. Now a technical committee set up by the Union Ministry for Rural Development to review watershed programmes has come up with a blueprint of a National Authority for Sustainable Development of Rainfed Areas (NASDORA). The report of the Parthasarathy Committee (named after its chairperson) has just been printed and is in the public domain.
In an editorial article in Hindu, Mihir Shah, who served as Honorary Adviser to the Parthasarathy Committee, writes about the structure of this proposed authority.
NASDORA is visualised as a quasi-independent authority to manage the national watershed programme. Its overarching goals would be to ensure access to safe drinking water to the local population, provide it sustainable livelihoods and secure freedom from drought for the vast rainfed regions by 2020. The Authority would address the challenge of bringing prosperity to these regions through sustainable development of their natural resource base. It is envisaged that NASDORA will identify, finance and monitor action programmes in a systematic and time-bound manner. To ensure freedom and flexibility in its functioning, the Authority should be registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Over time as it matures in functioning, a proposal for converting it into a statutory body could be considered. This was the institutional trajectory followed by the National Dairy Development Board.
A two-tier governance and management structure is envisaged to ensure broad policy support as well as operating oversight. NASDORA will be managed by an apex governing board consisting of a competitively selected professional as CEO, one representative each from the Union Ministries of Rural Development, Agriculture and Environment and Forests, three competitively selected whole-time professionals representing operations, finance, and human and institutional development, two eminent experts in watershed management, and two eminent members from civil society. An apex rainfed areas stakeholders council will provide overall policy support and guidance to the board and review NASDORA's performance. It will be chaired by the Prime Minister, with the Ministers for Rural Development, Agriculture and Environment and Forests as vice-chairpersons. The council will include the Chief Minister of each State covered by NASDORA, Secretaries of the Union Ministries of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment and Forests, national experts on watershed management, representatives of facilitating agencies of high standing, and representatives of farmers. The State Governments will set up boards with a structure similar to the one at the apex level. Each State board will have a CEO and professionals appointed on the recommendations of search committees.
I think it is a nice thing to be done by the government. The effective working of the poposed mechanism should help government in alleviation of growing regional imbalance in India's development.
In an editorial article in Hindu, Mihir Shah, who served as Honorary Adviser to the Parthasarathy Committee, writes about the structure of this proposed authority.
NASDORA is visualised as a quasi-independent authority to manage the national watershed programme. Its overarching goals would be to ensure access to safe drinking water to the local population, provide it sustainable livelihoods and secure freedom from drought for the vast rainfed regions by 2020. The Authority would address the challenge of bringing prosperity to these regions through sustainable development of their natural resource base. It is envisaged that NASDORA will identify, finance and monitor action programmes in a systematic and time-bound manner. To ensure freedom and flexibility in its functioning, the Authority should be registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. Over time as it matures in functioning, a proposal for converting it into a statutory body could be considered. This was the institutional trajectory followed by the National Dairy Development Board.
A two-tier governance and management structure is envisaged to ensure broad policy support as well as operating oversight. NASDORA will be managed by an apex governing board consisting of a competitively selected professional as CEO, one representative each from the Union Ministries of Rural Development, Agriculture and Environment and Forests, three competitively selected whole-time professionals representing operations, finance, and human and institutional development, two eminent experts in watershed management, and two eminent members from civil society. An apex rainfed areas stakeholders council will provide overall policy support and guidance to the board and review NASDORA's performance. It will be chaired by the Prime Minister, with the Ministers for Rural Development, Agriculture and Environment and Forests as vice-chairpersons. The council will include the Chief Minister of each State covered by NASDORA, Secretaries of the Union Ministries of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment and Forests, national experts on watershed management, representatives of facilitating agencies of high standing, and representatives of farmers. The State Governments will set up boards with a structure similar to the one at the apex level. Each State board will have a CEO and professionals appointed on the recommendations of search committees.
I think it is a nice thing to be done by the government. The effective working of the poposed mechanism should help government in alleviation of growing regional imbalance in India's development.
posted by Qais at 2:37 PM
4 Comments:
kafi technical article hai!!
btw, what do you think of privatisation of water ??
http://flonnet.com/stories/20060421005000400.htm
I am completely against this idea. Water is state responsibility like fresh air. I will post about it. It angers me.
Gud to see follow up actions on PM's commitment. More than organisational structure, that statement on Mihir shah doesnt clearly say how they r going to do it. Is government systems are always vague like this??
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