Infrastructural and Institutional Development in Sustainable Irrigation Management

Abstract

The central focus of this paper is to evaluate the effects of infrastructural and institutional development in Irrigation System Management in Bijayapur Irrigation System in Nepal, primarily the practice and relevance of institutional and infrastructural development in irrigation management system. It is found that the institutional and infrastructural development in Bijayapur Irrigation System Management, or the irrigation system management in general, was satisfactory but still need to be improved to achieve total sustainability, and the focus should be given on the involvement of socially excluded, marginalized group and women and equity in resource mobilization and water allocation. Study findings, in relevance to the characteristics of the study area, are expected to be positively supportive to the sustainable development of irrigation system management.