New projects could be considered for inclusion as National Projects on receipt of proposals from the State Governments in the prescribed format, indicating satisfaction of one or more criteria for inclusion as defined by the published guidelines of the scheme of National Projects  recommendation thereupon of a high powered Steering Committee constituted for the purpose of overseeing the entire process of selection and implementation of National Projects clearance from Expenditure Finance Committee/Project Investment Board and on the approval by the Union Cabinet.

The Ministry of Water Resources declared some of its projects as national projects. The details of the projects are as under:

Sl.No. Name of the project Name of the state Present status
1 Rengali Orissa Revised investment clearance is to be obtained by the State Government.
2 Restoring capacity of ShardaSahayak system Uttar Pradesh Proposal withdrawn by state government in 2nd meeting of Steering Committee
3 Saryu Canal Uttar Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
4 Bansagar canal Uttar Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
5 Rajghat canal Uttar Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
6 Kanher Uttar Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
7 Indira Sagar Polavaram Andhra Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
8 J Chokkarao LIS Andhra Pradesh Please see © and (d) below
9 Bargi Diversion project Madhya Pradesh Approved by the Steering Committee

In the 1st meeting of the High Powered Steering Committee for National project held on 6th August 2009, it was decided that initially only one project from each state in the category of intra-state project with more than 2 lakh ha of irrigation potential may be included for funding under the scheme of National Projects. Any further project in this category will be considered only on completion of an ongoing project funded as a national project in this category on 1:1 basis. This decision was taken in order to avoid thin spreading of available resources so that project included in scheme of national project could be completed in stipulated time frame.

In view of above, J Chokkarao Lift Irrigation scheme of Andhra Pradesh is not being considered for inclusion in the scheme of national project since Indira Sagar Polavaram project has already been recommended by the High Powered Steering Committee for inclusion in the scheme of national project and has also been considered by the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC). Some information clarification has been sought by  EFC which is to be provided by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Water Resources, Shri Vincent H. Pala in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha

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