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Appendix 1.2: Important committees, commissions <strong>and</strong> working groups<br />

<strong>for</strong> addressing salinity <strong>and</strong> waterlogging at the national level<br />

Year<br />

Committee! Commission! Working Group<br />

1877 Indian Reh Committee<br />

1925 <strong>Water</strong>logging Enquiry Committee. <strong>Irrigation</strong> Research Laboratory<br />

established<br />

1927 <strong>Water</strong>logging Enquiry Committee exp<strong>and</strong>ed Chakamawli Reclamation Farm;<br />

first salinity survey in waterlogged areas started<br />

1928 <strong>Water</strong>logging Committee abolished; <strong>Water</strong>logging Board constituted<br />

1937 Investigation on depth of water table started<br />

1943 Salinity survey to entire irrigated area of Indus basin extended<br />

1945 L<strong>and</strong> Reclamation Directorate<br />

1969 Central Soil Salinity Research <strong>Institute</strong> established<br />

1972 National Commission on <strong>Irrigation</strong><br />

1976 National Commission on Agriculture<br />

1991 Working Group on salinity <strong>and</strong> waterlogging<br />

1998 National Bureau of Soil Survey <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong> Use<br />

Agencies such as the Ministry of Agriculture, United Nations Development Program, Food<br />

<strong>and</strong> Agriculture Organization, United Nations Environment Program, NRSA, etc., have<br />

estimated the extent of l<strong>and</strong> degradation of different kinds. But these agencies do not give<br />

exclusive in<strong>for</strong>mation on irrigation-induced waterlogging <strong>and</strong> salinity.<br />

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