Theme 6-9-Artificial recharge of ground water in hard rock terrain through Chakriya Vikas Pranali - a case study of Palamau district in Bihar State.

Abstract

“Chakriya Vikas Pranali” (CVP) is a natural cycle of growth where profit of the first cycles becomes capital for the next linked cycle of employment generation and thus refinancing of the programme is not required. After the gestation period the system will have its own internal resources to run the project.

Land and water management programme is one component of CVP by which regeneration of degraded land is taking place with increasing forest cover, which facilitates insitu conservation of rain water as it falls and where it falls. Scientifically the following are basic achievements besides socio-economic gain to the society : Change in environment, Artificial recharge of ground water in hard rock terrain in Palamau, Change in soil composition which ultimately increases the soil fertility rate.

An alternative mechanism for regeneration of degraded land with increasing biomass cover due to innovative Chakriya Vikas mechanism for insitu conservation of rain water has shown remarkable change during recent years. This paper compares ground water recharge in undulating surface in hard rock terrain of Palamau division in Bihar. The protective measures to check surface run-off ultimately recharge ground water table and an apparent improvement of level was observed.