Overview of Tilganga River:

Tilganga River (Watershed No. KR 42) originates from the Mahadev Hills at Karmala (Taluka: Shirala) and joins the Krishna River at Bahe (Taluka: Walwa) after a journey of approximately 27 km. In this journey, she meets many sub-watersheds.

Tilganga River Basin – Total Villages – 36

Agricultural area – 26,338 hectares

Population – 1,23,053

Pazar Lake – 8

Dams – Small + Large-  39

Drought affected villages – 18

Earlier situation of Tilganga River:

Somewhere around  20 to 25 years ago, the Tilaganga river used to flow for 9 to 10 months. For a few years, the Tilganaga river used to flow only for 4 to 5 months in the rainy monsoon.

 In spite of having 450 to 900 mm rainfall, all the water was flowing away due to the following reasons.

1. The Tilganga river basin was filled with silt and narrowed due to silt and encroachment Garvelly had grown and spread in the basin.
2. All the Bandhara were useless due to leakage, collapse and accumulation of silt, so there was no storage of water resultantly no recharge of groundwater. Therefore, as soon as the rainy season ended, a water shortage-like situation was created within a short period of time. In summer, the water well used to dry up, which leads to scarcity of drinking water also.

 Tilganga Civilisation Development Program was decided to be undertaken by “Gramprakash Swarajya Bahuudeshiya Sanstha, Peth” under the guidance of watershed & Environment experts.

 Old Bandhara – desilting, widening & deepening of the basin, removal of leakages and necessary repairs to make old bandhara useful for storage of water

 New Dams– Construction of more new dams on river Tilganga & also construction of CNB & KOPA Bandhara etc

 River Basin – cleaning of the river basin by removing gravel, silt and encroachment. Also, widening of the basin according to Tehsil Survey & demarcation 

 Aiming to overcome water scarcity by increasing rainwater storage in watershed structures which leads to increase in water recharge of nearby areas to raise the water table. 

  In the Tilganga Civilisation Development Programme, maximum works were planned to be done through public awareness & public participation and wherever necessary, the support of the Government’s Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan was planned to be taken.

 In the Tilganga Civilisation development program, all the members & supporters of “Gram Prakash” organization have done the work of creating positivity in their minds about the people’s participation by visiting the villagers from village to village, holding meetings and exchanging ideas with them and informing them again and again about the Tilganga Civilisation development program.

 Outcome of Tilganga Civilisation development program after initiation of program:

 Deepening-widening-straightening of river Tilganga was continued for 65 days after the work started. Since day one, People’s participation has been increasing day by day.

1. Gram Prakash Reservoir Golewadi Peth – 2 Pokland, 3 JCB, 22 tractors were continuously working for 65 days for the deepening-widening of Gram Prakash Reservoir. Total 600x30x4 m work was completed which has created a total reservoir of 7.20 crore liters of water.
2. Mankeshwar Dam 1 JCB, 11 tractors, worked for 15 days for deepening – widening and straightening of Mankeshwar Dam that completed total 100x 25x 2 m work. This structure has created a total reservoir of 0.5 crore liters of water.
3. CNB Bandhara  1 Pokland, 2 JCB, 20 tractors were continuously in operation for 45 days for deepening, widening and straightening. Total 850x 25×2.90 m work was completed . A total of 6.15 crore liters of deep water reservoir was created.
4. Palakmala A total deep work of 650x20x2 m was completed in Tilgangapatra in Palakmala through 1 Pokland, 2 JCBs, 11 tractors in 35 days. A water reservoir of 2.60 crore liters has been created at Palakmala
5. Karmayogi Baba Amte Smriti Tyre Bandhara Secretary of Karmayogi Baba Amte Smriti Maharogi Seva Samiti Shri. Kaustubh Amte expressed his intention to build the environmental supplemental tyre dam which was successful in Anandvan in Chandrapur for the first time. After Anandvan, it was again experimented on Tilganga river at Peth and it has been named as  “Karmayogi Baba Amte Smriti Bandhara”. Total 35×1.5×60 m. A long water storage has been done and a total of 31 lakh liters of water has been stored.
6. Sri Khandeshwar Dam Repairing, deepening and widening of the KOPA stone bandhara of 50x25x1.5 m near the east side of Pune Bangalore Highway on the river was completed which has created 18 lakh liters of water reservoir. 
7. The work of the protection wall of Tilganga River between Mahadev Temple to Vitthal Temple in Peth was completed with the support of Gram Prakash in collaboration with the Government. 

All the above water conservation works except tyre dam, the total government expenditure for the repair and new construction of the remaining five works under Jalyukta Shiwar Yojana was completed in 30 lakh rupees only and the total water storage has been created of 16.63 crores liters. The total of 44838.75 cubic meters work of deepening, widening and straightening were done through people’s participation in terms of Shramdan & machineries.The cost of people participation was amounted Rs. 73,98,393 as per the government rate. The cost of water storage comes to Rs 0.0625 per liter i.e.6.25 paise.

Phase wise Tilganga Civilisation development program Plan:

1. PRA, Site Visit, People awareness & formation of WDC at Beradewadi Village 
2. Entry Point activity is going on 

1. Appointment of “Grampraksh” for DPR Preparation of PMKSY WDC 2.0 by Mrudha va Jalsandharan Vibhag, Osmanabad
2. PIA -GSDA has appointed “Gramprakash” for DPR of Osmanabad (WDC 2.0/2/2021-22)
3. PIA- Mrudha va Jalsandharan Vibhag, Osmanabad has appointed “Gramprakash” for DPR of Osmanabad (WDC 2.0/3/2021-22)

1. Watershed Development from Ridge to Valley 

a.  WAT/VDT

b. Farm Pond

c. Dug out sunken pond

d. Repairing of existing structures of Watershed

e. Afforestation and pasture development 

f. Tilganga Civilisation Development Programme

1. Implementation of Suvidha Sampanna Kutumbha Missiona & Gram Prosperity and Development Scheme 
2. Concept of “Gramdhan”

1. Rejuvenation of Diversion Band
2. Desilting from existing watershed structures 

1. Ideal Model Development of Watershed 
2. One of the First Model of all treatments of Watershed in India
3. Learning to Students and Farmers on the basis of concept of “Seeing is Believing” 

  Scope of Work:

1. 1. Plan of Villages
   2. Site Visits support for Execution 
   3. Implementation 
   4. Monitoring
   5. Evaluation 

1. Actively involved 
2. Planning & Implementation of Tilganga River, Shirala-Walwa Dist: Sangli (KR-42)

1. Discussion Platform for Environment Prosperity includes 5 elements of nature namely Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space
2. Involvement of 1000 experts across the nation 
3. Organizing seminars, workshops etc

TNA : Training Need Analysis

ToT : Training of Trainers 

Training Programme on Watershed & relevant Subject ( Basic & Technical) 

Competency Mapping