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							Elimination Criteria
    In Mahaboobnagar district, except for a few command area habitations of Rajolibanda Diversion
    Scheme (RDS), Jurala, Kurnool Cuddapah Canal and others covered by lift irrigation projects, there
    is an urgent need to conserve soil and moisture in almost all the remaining habitations.

    A habitation that is covered under a development scheme or programme has been eliminated so
    as to give priority to the habitations that are not covered under any such programme.

    It has been proposed that the eliminated habitations, which require investment for desired
    development will be tagged on to food-for-work and/or Neeru-Meeru programmes. The urban and
    highly populous mandal headquarters and the habitations with less than 300 hectares of treatable
    area have also been eliminated. The elimination criteria have been used only for the selection of
    APRLP watersheds.

    The 100-marks criteria and the Multiple Deprivation Criteria have also been employed to select the
    APRLP habitations.

Prioritisation of Mandals
    Bearing the above factors in mind, priority mandals have been arrived at by following the CDSA and
    APSRAC criteria. Apart from these priority has also been given to
    a   Non Velugu mandals
    Mahaboobnagar is a district that has been selected for the District Poverty Initiative Programme
    (DPIP). Presently this project is focussed in 35 mandals in the district. Since this project is also
    working to develop rural livelihoods, preference is given to non-Velugu mandals for ensuring equitable
    opportunities to the people. There are 29 mandals in Mahaboobnagar where the Velugu programme
    is not being implemented and these have been prioritised for the APRLP initiative.
    a   Contiguity and spatial distribution have also been taken into account.
    Thus, 26 mandals have been prioritised, they are:
    Addakkal, Alampur, Aangal, Atmakur, Boothpur, C.C. Kunta, Devakadra, Gadwal, Ghattu, Itikyal,
    Jadcherla, Keshampet, Kodair, Kodangal, Lindal, Mahaboobnagar, Midjil, Nagakurnool, Narayanpet,
    Nawabpet, Pebbair, Talakondapally, Uppununtala, Veldanda, Wanaparthy, Weepangandla.

    The final selection made by APRLP ensures that there are only a manageable number of mandals.
    A limited selection of mandals offers a better guarantee for the quality and continuity of the work
    undertaken in them. It also assures an easy assessment of impacts and more efficient monitoring.

Basis for the Selection of these Mandals
The above mandals, in which the APRLP watersheds are to be sanctioned, have been selected using a
creative combination of parameters.

a   Spatial— Kodangal is a remote mandal located in the northwestern part of Mahaboobnagar district.
    This is a non-Velugu mandal. Hence, for administrative logistics and spatial equality, i.e. in Multi
    Disciplinary Team-VII jurisdiction, this is the only APRLP mandal that has been selected.



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                   a    Contiguity— Jadcherla Mandal has been considered because of its contiguity and its central
                        location. The adjoining mandals are Mahaboobnagar, Nawanpet, Boothpur, Midjil and
                        Talakondapalle. In another instance, Kalwakurthy is an already saturated mandal. Uppunuthala
                        mandal has been selected for its contiguity with Kalwakurthy mandal.
                   a    Non-Velugu— Weepangandla is a non-Velugu mandal located to the south of Mahaboobnagar
                        district. It is prioritised as there are only 3 residual habitations selected for APRLP out of a total of 26
                        habitations.
                   a    Fewer number of habitations— Itikyal mandal has 21 habitations and out of these 20 habitations
                        have been eliminated, as they had been sanctioned projects earlier. The one remaining habitation
                        has been selected in order to consolidate the projects in the entire mandal.
                   a    Low ground water table— Midjil is a Velugu mandal but it has been prioritised as it is a dark mandal
                        and also because the people’s participation in the ongoing watershed habitations is good.

                   Selection of Habitations
                   There are 512 residual revenue habitations in Mahaboobnagar district out of a total of 1553 habitations.
                   1041 revenue habitations have been eliminated because they fall under one or more of the above
                   categories. After application of the 9 point selection criteria among the prioritised habitations, 100
                   habitations have been selected from 22 mandals.

              Prakasam
              This district is one of the most backward and drought prone districts of the state.

              An integrated approach has been followed in Prakasam district for identifying the mandals having both high
              natural resources degradation and socio-economic deprivations. The issue of poverty is to be addressed
              more immediately in this district compared to other parts of the state.

              With this perspective mandals have been prioritised taking into consideration the following factors

                   a    Macro watersheds/basins/sub-catchments of Gundlakamma, Musi and Paleru
                   a    Water stress mandal category-I and II as declared by the Ground Water Department
                   a    High natural resources degradation and high social and economic deprivations as per CDSA
                   a    Prioritisation based on the 100-marks criteria
                   a    Very High and high priority areas as per APSRAC




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     Case Studies from AP’s Drought Prone Districts
Methodology
    District Level
    Some watersheds have already been selected under the RIDF-VI project assisted by NABARD in Prakasam
    district. In continuation of this and other strategies, an integrated approach for the selection of new
    watersheds under APRLP was implemented. The methodology followed involved the

    a   Plotting of the macro watershed areas/basins/sub-catchments of the main rivers i.e. Gundlakamma,
        Musi and Paleru from the originating areas at 50,000 scale. First and second order stream of rivulets
        of these rivers were delineated and categorised into macro-watersheds
    a   Overlaying of mandal boundaries on the macro watersheds to identify the mandals in which the
        selected areas fall. The list of mandals are then prioritised following the ridge to valley concept
    a   Counterchecking these mandals, to see whether they are falling in the very high and high priority
        areas as per APSRAC prioritisation strategy
    a   Ensuring that the water stress mandal category–I and II, as reported by the Ground Water Department
        based on the level of ground water, are covered in the above selected mandals
    a   Ensuring that all the selected mandals are categorised between the medium to very high levels of
        priority in the multiple deprivations criteria formulated by CDSA
    a   Prioritising the watershed habitations following the 100-marks criteria. This also entails separating
        and counterchecking mandals with more than 50% of high priority habitations from the mandals
        already prioritised under the above categories.

18 mandals were prioritised after the above mentioned processes. Three mandals were deleted because of
the limited areas that had to be treated. Moreover, there were greater priority areas, which came up for
consideration under the ridge to valley concept.

    Habitation and Watershed Levels
    After the prioritisation of the mandals, the programme requires the prioritisation of the habitations in
    these mandals. Hence the prioritised mandals are plotted with

    a. Old watersheds, i.e. areas under National Watershed Development Programme for Rain-fed Areas
        (NWDPRA), World Bank watersheds, pilot watersheds, macro watersheds (old guidelines) concepts,
        IWDP etc.
    b. Completed watersheds under new guidelines and
    c. Ongoing watersheds including RIDF
    To delineate future watersheds in these mandals,care has been taken to cover uncovered/partially
    covered areas under old, completed and ongoing watersheds to identify the gaps for designing them
    as future watersheds in a mandal taking into consideration the saturation of the mandal.




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