This document provides an appraisal of the World Bank financed Orissa Community Tank Management Project. The project on tank rehabilitation in the state was focused on institutional strengthening, agricultural livelihood services and some irrigation improvements in the project area.
The project envisaged the rehabilitation of 900 tanks that provide irrigation for 120 thousands hectares. Under the proposed restructuring, only 320 tanks will be rehabilitated covering 60 thousand hectares albeit with some additional irrigation work and more intensive work on institutional strengthening and agricultural livelihood services in the project area.
The report states that the outcomes of the project should be achieved for the newly defined, reduced project area.
The appraisal can be summed up as -
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