Proceedings of meeting of the State level Committee on "NationalMission on Sustainable Agriculture" held under the chairmanshi pof Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner on

13th November 2014 at 2.30pm*****

List of Participants: Enclosed

At the outset, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner and

chairperson of the committee welcomed the members and initiated the discussions.

The Principal Secretary Horticulture briefed the meeting about the discussion he and

Agriculture Commissioner had with Joint MD of GGRC. The GGRC had discovered the base

rate (actual market rate) in the year 2006 by taking all relevant parameters into

consideration. Thereafter every year (or even earlier) these rates are revised by GGRC

depending upon the input cost. Detailed guidelines have been worked out by GGRC for

periodic revision of these rates. GGRC is ready to share those guidelines with our state

Government. The GGRC uses this uniform rate to pay to al empanelled vendors. Along with

these rates (which are quite lower to rates of most of Kamataka vendors), the GGRC gives

25% advance to vendors (after taking Bank Guarantee) or after ensuring that their payments

are more than this advance amount) and has a well working software system to bring

transparency. He suggested that GGRC system with all its features can be adopted for

Karnataka.

The committee, after discussion with Joint Mp decided to use the strategy of GGRC

to fix uniform prices and to start using GGRC present rates as base rate for Karnataka.

However it also decided to constitute a Committee under the chairmanship of Agriculture

Commissioner to validate the appropriateness of GGRC rates as the base rates for

Karnataka by validating the parameters on the basis of which GGRC has finalized their rates

and to suggest modification to those rates or to the parameters if required.

The Principal Secretary Horticulture and Agriculture Commissioner suggested to

continue with present system till the end of this financial year. However chairman decided to

bring the new uniform rates immediately. The rates would be uniform rates or rates quoted

by a vendor, whichever is lower.

The chairperson also was of the view that advances may not be appropriate to be

given to the companies.

The Agriculture Commissioner was directed to immediately call all the vendors and

take their consent for the above new system to be adopted for Karnataka. The Agriculture

Commissioner would immediately convene the next meeting of the committee and before

end of this month.

s:Gt· ~/ ~

(LathC!J(~a Rao)Additional Chie(Secretary & Development

Commissioner and Chairperson of the committee

Meanwhile Principal Secretary Horticulture was advised by Chairperson to bring the

proposal before cabinet for decision on 90% subsidy.

Meeting concluded with vote of thanks.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:

1 Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner

2 Principal Secretary to Govt., Agriculture Department

3 Principal Secretary to Govt., Horticulture Department

4 Commissioner for Agriculture

5 Director of Agriculture

6 Director of Research, UAHS, Shivamogga

7 Joint Managing Director, GGRC, Gujarath

8 Associate Director of Research, UHS, Bagalakote

9 Additional Director of Agriculture

(Human Resource Development)

10 Joint Director of Agriculture

(Agri. Mechanization & Micro Irrigation)

11 Joint Director of Agriculture (Agronomy),

Watershed Development Department

12 Joint Director of Horticulture (Drip)

13· Principal Investigator& Professor,

PFDC, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore

14 Professor of Agriculture Engineering, UAS, Dharwad

15 Under Secretary, Revenue Department

In Chair

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Proceedings of the Meeting of State level Committee on "NationallYIission onSustainable Agriculture" held under the chairmanship of Additional ChiefSecretary and Development Commissioner on 7th November 2014 at 3.30pm

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At the outset, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissionerand chairperson of the committee welcomed the members and initiated thediscussions.

The Commissioner for Agriculture briefed the committee about the excerptsof proceedings of meetings of the Technical Committee to work out Cost ofinstallation of Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation systems held on 05-11-2014 &07-11-2014.

The Joint Director (Drip Irrigation) Horticulture Department brought to thenotice of the meeting that the Action Plan for Rs. 175 crores as Central share(accompanied by appropriate State budget) was approved in the erstwhile SMICmeeting held on 19-7-2014. He then informed that now the Govt. of India hasreduced its share from Rs. 175 crores to Rs. 124.25 crores. The Joint Director(Drip Irrigation) Horticulture Dept. requested the Chairperson to approve theaction plan limiting the Central share to Rs. 124.~5 crores.

Later, the Director of Agriculture briefed the committee as below:

• Components and 2014-15 Karnataka state's action plan of NationalMission Sustainable Agriculture

• Govt. of India has given administrative approval only for RainfedArea Development (RAD) and On-Farm Water Management(OFWM) components for the year 2014-15

• Govt. of India has released Rs. 15.00 Crore as a first installmentunder the scheme

• Grants are not released from the State Govt. due to non receipt ofHead of Account and proposal has been submitted to Finance Dept in

•this regard

After detailed discussions the following decisions/su~ns were made:

• The committee to have discussions with the Joint Managing Director,Gujarath Green Revolution Company (GGRC), Gujarath about qualityparameters, requirements, costing and prices of different micro irrigationsystems on 13th ovember 2014.

• The Committee authorized the Principal Secretary, Horticulture Dept. torevise the action plan limiting Central share to Rs. 124.25 crores underOFWM component of NMSA in respect of Horticulture, Agriculture &Sericulture Department.

• Principal Investigator & Professor, PFDC, UAS, Bangalore to provideper ha. requirements of materials of Sprinkler/ Drip Irrigation systems

for various crops

Meeting concluded with vote of thanks.s:·(~aRa~)

Additional Chief Secretary &Development Commissioner andChairperson of the Committee

• Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modeling andNetworking (CCSAMMN) component of NMSA to be assigned to theEnvironmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI) insteadof University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

• Commissioner, Watershed Development Department to participate in thereview meeting ofNMSA to be held on 13-11-2014 along with one Officerfrom the Department of Agriculture.

• Commissioner for Agriculture brought the issues to the notice of committeemembers regarding no progress made under Rainfed AgricultureDevelopment (RAD) and no action being taken till now to implement thescheme in the field by watershed development department. Chairmaninstructed watershed officials to immediately speed up the fieldimplementation and Rs. 15.00 Crores released from Government of India tobe released to Watershed Development department for implementation ofRAD

LIST OF ARTICIP ANTS:

1 Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner In Chair2 Principal Secretary to Govt., Horticulture Department3 Secretary to Govt., Forest, Environment and Biology

Department4 Commissioner for Agriculture5 Director of Agriculture6 Director, Watershed Development Department7 Director, Horticulture Department8 Vice Chancellor, UHS, Bagalakote9 Director of Research, UAS, Bangalore10 Director of Extension, UAS, Raichur11 Additional director of Agriculture(Organic Farming)12 Additional Director of Agriculture

(Human Resource Development)13 Joint Director of Agriculture

(Agri. Mechanization & Micro Irrigation)14 Joint Director of Horticulture (Drip)15 Joint Director, Sericulture Department16 Principal Investigator& Professor,

PFDC, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore17 Professor of Agronomy, UAHS, Shivamogga