Beneficiary Participation in Irrigation Water Management: The Kerala

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Table 4.4 Registration - Renewal Details of BFAs Number of BFAs Submitting Balance Sheet Number of Societies Submitting list of G.B.M Renewed Societies (Cumulative) Number of Societies Renewed to Total Societies Registered Cumulative Number of Societies No. of Societies Registered Years 47 66 66 (51.6) 66 (51.6) 128 (30.8) 28 (30.8) 1986 106 149 215 (58.9) 149 (64.5) 359 (85.8) 231 (55.0) 1987 3 4 219 (59.3) 4 (40) 369 (88.1) 10 (2.3) 1988 1 1 220 (59.5) 1 (100) 370 (88.3) 1 (0.23) 1989 — — 220 (59.5) 0 (0) 370 (88.3) 0 1990 - - 220 (59.5) 0 (0) 370 (88.3) 0 1991 - 2 222 (59.1) 2 (33.3) 376 (89.5) 6 (1.4) 1992 2 2 224 (58.9) 2 (50) 380 (90.4) 4 (0.92) 1993 7 8 232 (57.1) 8 (30.8) 406 (96.7) 26 1994 4 4 236 (56.2) 4 (44.4) 415 (98.8) 9 1995 - 170 - 236 0 (0) 0 (0) 420 (100) 5 (1.2) 1996 - 236 - 420 Total Source: District Registrar of Societies (General) Palakkad Note: GBM - Governing Body Members/Executive Committee 31
Renewal is given based on the lists of office-bearers and the statements of accounts submitted by BFAs. In Kerala only a fraction of registered BFAs used to apply for renewal every year. More than 40 per cent of them remained unrenewed. Only 236 BFAs out of 420 renewed their registration during the span of 11 years since 1986. Renewals were regularly done only during the first three years, mainly to derive the benefit of field channel lining. Out of the 236, 219 fall in this category. Only 17 are found to have renewed since 1989 for all the rest eight years. Though all the 236 BFAs were registered as per rules and had submitted the list of governing body members, only 170 are found to have submitted their audited statements of accounts. Submission of the budget for the ensuing year was a requirement for renewal; it was neither done by the BFAs, nor was it insisted upon by CADA. Many office-bearers of BFAs were not aware of such a requirement. Even this absolute number of 236 renewals, is misleading. Despite the statutory obligation to renew BFAs every year, renewals were made after delays for years together (Table 4.5). Out of 236 BFAs which were renewed, 227 had renewals, after varying periods of delay; 34 of them delay was of 1-3 years’ duration; 143 had renewed registration after 4-7 years of delay and 50 of them after 8-11 of years delay. Once the field channel lining was achieved, under the banner of BFA, every BFA, with very few exceptions, developed a tendency to fall into passivity, ignoring statutory obligations and virtually becoming defunct. Even officebearers of these defunct BFAs were unaware or feigned ignorance of the statutory requirements, not to speak of their ordinary members. As per records, only nine BFAs, out of the 236, which got renewed, did the renewal observing all formalities in time and every year. This forms only 2.1 percent of the total number of BFAs registered over the span of 11 years, 1986 to 1996. Table 4.5 Details on Delayed Renewals - Lapse in Years Year 1-3 Years 4-7 Years 8-11 Years 1986 8 33 23 1987 10 105 27 1988 — 4 - 1989 — 1 - 1990 - - - 1991 - - - 1992 2 - - 1993 2 - - 1994 8 - - 1995 4 - - 1996 - - - Total 34 143 50 Source: District Registrar of Societies (General) Palakkad In brief, the heavy rush for registration and renewals evinced during the first two or three Source: District Registrar of Societies (General) Palakkad 32
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Page 3 and 4: Contents 1 Introduction 5 2 Concept
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Page 7 and 8: The Malampuzha project has 15 Canal
Page 9 and 10: 2. Concepts, Theory, and Practice o
Page 11 and 12: of a few man-days of labour as is s
Page 13 and 14: 3. Empirical Research on Irrigation
Page 15 and 16: Our interest is neither in the Prod
Page 17 and 18: The author points out how the press
Page 19 and 20: field level officers resemble the c
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Page 23 and 24: To ameliorate the situation, the Eg
Page 25 and 26: development factors and processes,
Page 27 and 28: Canal Committee (CC) Canal Committe
Page 29: This fact was endorsed by both offi
Page 33 and 34: Table 4.6 Details of General Body M
Page 35 and 36: Table 4.7 Details of Canal Committe
Page 37 and 38: Table 4.8 Nature of Decisions in Ca
Page 39 and 40: ecause of their vital importance to
Page 41 and 42: of the office-bearers and more than
Page 43 and 44: Table 4.13a Performance of Recurrin
Page 45 and 46: Table 4.13 c Performance of Recurri
Page 47 and 48: inclusion of ineligible persons in
Page 49 and 50: aspect. The reasons reported for in
Page 51 and 52: Table 4.14c Performance of Recurrin
Page 53 and 54: all farmers in an area did this act
Page 55 and 56: Table 4.15a Performance of Recurrin
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Page 63 and 64: management function, with an expert
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Page 67 and 68: Lack of adequate co-operation of th
Page 69 and 70: The failure in the working of BFAs
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Page 73 and 74: Table 6.1 Measures of Reforms 74
Page 75 and 76: “Extending better official co-ope
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7. Summary and Conclusions Most irr
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of using less cement than is requir
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Appendix - I Number of Beneficiary
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Appendix III List of Canal Committe
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BFA Sample’ Name of C.C/BFA Reg.
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the assumed losses of 11 to 20 perc
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34 The NIA was a government corpora
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References Bagodion, Benjamin U.
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Silva, De, N. G. R. “Involvement
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