WATERSHED MANAGEMENT information and data related to Bunga Watershed in Dehradun

1. Dr. RAJENDRA PRASAD CENTRAL
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY,PUSA

2. WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLAN
(BUNGA)
 SUBMITTED BY
 17041024 ANKUR KUMAR
 17041022 SIDHANT KUMAR SAURAV
 17041016 SHIVAM KUMAR
 17041017 PREMANAND MISHRA
 17041020 RITURAJ SINGH
 17041019 NITISH SINGH
 GUIDED BY - Dr. S.P GUPTA

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6. • BUNGA
 The Bunga watershed is a typical of the Shiwalik foot hill region having
problems of overgrazing and large scale denudation
 Problem
 Shortage of water in watershed and droughts occur frequently.
 Remedies
 Improve socioeconomic condition of people
 Reduce peoples dependence on hills
 Reverse process of environmental degradation
 Improve soil and water conservation measures on watershed basis.

7. DESCRIPTION OF BUNGA WATERSHED
 Location- It is located in village Bunga in district Ambala having an area of 463 ha . It is located
on Panchkula Ambala road about 35km from Chandigarh.
 Climate- It falls in subtropical climatic zone with an average annual rainfall of 1,115 mm
.Rainfall intensity of 100 mm per hr for 15 minute duration
 Temperature- 0-25 degree Celsius in Winter & 30-45 in Summer
 Geology & Soils- The system is made of sandstone , grits , conglomerates & clay having
characteristics of fluivate deposit of torrential stream and floods in shallow basin.

8. Livestock-The people keep large herd of goat and
cows . The distribution of area is as follows

9. Soil & Water conservation measures
 The measure recommended include storage reservoirs and water conveyance
system at suitable site and mechanical measure at highly vulnerable location
to check the flow of huge sediment
 It comprises construction of staggered contour trenches , gabion structures
and stone check dams.

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14. STORAGE RESERVOIRS
A Storage reservoir with following specification has been
designed.

15. View of Bunga watershed . Widely used for fish culture.

16. Estimated cost of dam-Rs 9,30,000
Dam with specification has been checked for stability (
Dhruv Narayana & Sastry 1986 ) with table given below

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18. Dryland agriculture- Maize-Gram; Maize-Taramira ;
Fallow-Wheat; Groundnut-Gram; Arhar-Gram crop rotation
are recommended for dryland

19. SOCIAL FORESTRY-
Due to shortage of fuelwood farmer are encouraged to raise fast growing species
like Eucalyptus hybrid will provide fuel after 8 to 10 years.
Control of gully erosion- For this a series of stone checkdams are constructed
 Land & Water management for crop production
 Storage capacity - 60 ha-m
 Evaporation loss - 40 ha-m
 Available area to cover - 243ha with two supplemental irrigation of 7.5cm each
 Crop Rotation – Suitable rotations are Maize-wheat , Groundnut-wheat , Maize-wheat-
moong
 Horticulture- Hardy- fruit plant which need less moisture are recommended
 Cost of project
 Total cost - Rs 20,63,000
 Developmental cost per ha of command area(336ha) - Rs 6,140
 Cost of developing water resource - Rs 2.75/cu-m

21. THANK YOU
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