1 Research Scholar and Executive Engineer, M.P. Water Resources Department, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology-Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Online published on 1 February, 2013.
Water is scare and it has several characteristics that make the role of its development and management more essential than other goods available for mankind. Water allocation to various stakeholders is a complex issue due to increasing demand. Due to population increase, it is difficult to meet the demand of food in resources available worldwide. Therefore, it is a primary objective to ensure optimal utilisation of water within an available resource. Major consumer of water is Irrigation. About 83% share is consumed by Irrigation. But it is evident from statistics that only 40% potential is utilised in India because of poor maintenance of canal, flooding methods adopted in larger part of country for application of water and inadequate facilities for irrigation services. In view of this Government of India is seriously making efforts to improve the existing systems performance and suggesting their State Government to adopt benchmarking of Irrigation and drainage sector to assess the performance. Benchmarking indicators are also suggested by a committee constituted by Central Water Commission, Government of India to compare internal and external benchmarking of Irrigation Projects. The simple comparison of indicators involves subjective judgment-making which provides little information about the global position of an organization with respect to others. In order to address this problem, a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is used to evaluate inefficiencies in a Samrat Ashok Sagar Projact.
Madhya Pradesh, India, Irrigation, efficiency Data envelopment analysis
