Salient Features

♤ An outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore over a period of five years (2015-16 to 2019-20) to bring 140 lakh hectares of additional area under irrigation.

♤ Decentralized State level planning and execution' structure, in order to allow States to draw up a District Irrigation Plan (DIP) and a State Irrigation Plan (SIP)

♤ Administration: Inter-Ministerial National Steering Committee (NSC) under PM with Union Ministers of all concerned Ministries. A National Executive Committee is to be constituted under

the Chairmanship of the Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog to oversee programme implementation.

♤ Long Term Irrigation Fund has been instituted under PMKSY in NABARD for funding and fast tracking the implementation of incomplete major and medium irrigation projects.