Yuva Mitra NGO in Sinnar taluka, Nashik district has carried out regeneration of existing British period Diversion based Irrigation Systems (DBI) on the river Devanadi through a grant from Tata Trust over the past two years. A Program, Technical and Institutional review of the same was carried out by Deloitte for Tata Trusts. The report was submitted in August 2016.
TDSC had shown an interest in carrying out a process review, utilization and impact assessment of the same, involving mapping, water flow estimations, beneficiary socio-economic analysis, etc. The main high-level priority recommendations by Deloitte are also on the same lines and thus, TDSC is once again proposed certain activities, to be jointly implemented by TDSC and Yuva-Mitra in the region and the project was executed between October 2016 and January 2017.
Objectives of engagement:
Implementing high priority technical recommendations from a review by Deloitte.
Impact assessment of DBI works already implemented.
Process review and recommendations for planning, design and implementation of future DBI works.
- Prof Milind Sohoni, CSE
- Prof Purushottam Kulkarni, CSE
- Swapnil Jadhav, Ankita Prayag, and Mahesh Labade from TDSC
- Gopal Chavan, Pooja Prasad and Hemant Belsare – PhD students at CTARA
- Anish Hola – Mtech student at CTARA
- TDSL students also worked on preliminary study in the area
mapping of river and DBI structures, command mapping, well monitoring and Socio-economic impact analysis survey in 2 villages.
- Report (pdf)