The development of irrigation ...

The development of irrigation in command areas of irrigation projects is far below satisfaction. The governments are spending money like water on irrigation dams and canals . But no money is spent of construction of water copurses to cover full command areas. result is that no irrigation project constructed after independence is able to achieve the projected goals of the project. I wonder why our policy makers politicians and bureaucrats and technocrats do not try to understand the message on the wall? The Bureau of Indian Standard does not have even a single code for design and construction of water course. Our Central water Commission do not feel that such a code is very much essential. Other factor is adoption of irrigation methods to be selected / applied for different types of the terrain. But practically only one method is being adopted by most of the farmers to fill the irrigated land with water and drain out the water in drains after say 15 days. Neither the Water Resources department nor the Agriculture department nor the policy makers of India have any priority for solution of this problem, nor they wish to hear.