Department of Land Resources (DoLR)
Department of Land Resources (DoLR)
Presentations from the two-day workshop on success stories under watershed programmes by DoLR at New Delhi (2011)
Posted on 18 Jun, 2011 06:50 PMThe workshop was structured in two sections. Research papers were presented from research institutes such as Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Central Soil & Water Conservation Research and Training Institute (CSWRTI), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), National Research Centre for Agroforestry (NRCAF), National Institute for Rural Development (NIRD) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). This was followed by presentation of success stories by various States.
Wastelands Atlas of India by National Remote Sensing Centre and Ministry of Rural Development (2010)
Posted on 08 Nov, 2010 10:46 PM
This report presents the latest Wastelands Atlas, put together by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) developed as a part of the “National Wasteland Monitoring Project”. The mapping efforts have generated valuable datasets on unutilized/vacant lands and their use in watershed and wastelands management.
The three sets of Wastelands Atlas of India by NRSC comprise -
The Parthasarathy committee report by technical committee on watershed programmes in India (2006)
Posted on 12 May, 2009 02:47 PMThe Parthasarathy Committe was a Technical Committee on DPAP, DDP, IWDP Programmes constituted by the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in 2006 and its report has attempted an exhaustive review of the experience of the watershed programme in India.