Socio-Economic Study of the Project Affected Persons of the Bhima-Ujjani Irrigation Sub-Project” under the Maharashtra Composite Irrigation Project (MCIP-III)

In the year 1994, the Government of Maharashtra entrusted to the Centre, an assignment of conducting the “Socio-Economic Study of the Project Affected Persons of the Bhima-Ujjani Irrigation Sub-Project” under the Maharashtra Composite Irrigation Project (MCIP-III), funded by the World Bank.  This project involved detailed study of about 15,000 Project Affected Families scattered over 106 Resettlement Gaothans and 36 partially submerged villages belonging to the three districts of Pune, Solapur and Ahmednagar.  A team of 90 trained field investigators, field officers and supervisors was appointed for canvassing the specially designed questionnaires.  The entire fieldwork and data collection was supervised and guided by the senior research staff of the Centre.  Several village level meetings were conducted by the senior research officers of the Centre, during the entire course of the fieldwork, which was duly completed within the time span of 55 days. 
Besides this, detailed profiles were prepared for about 90 selected Resettlement Gaothans with the primary objective of identifying the exact nature of requirements/needs of the inhabitants of these Resettlement Gaothans in respect of basic civic amenities provided to them.  Resettlement Gaothan-wise details were collected and presented (for these selected locations) in respect of the aspects such as –

1. Availability of the basic 13 civic amenities, which are to be provided, as per the legal provisions, in each of the Resettlement Gaothans.
2. Present functional status of each of the provided civic amenities; and,
3. Suggestions/observations of the residents of the localities concerning the nature of upgradation, repairs and/or replacements required in respect of each of the civic amenities already provided.