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

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1 Proceedings of meeting of the State level Committee on "National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture" held under the chairmanshi p of Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner on 13 th 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 given to the companies. to be

2 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. 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. s: Gt ~/ ~ (LathC!J(~a Rao) Additional Chie(Secretary & Development Commissioner and Chairperson of the committee

3 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS: 1 Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner In Chair 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

4 Proceedings of the Meeting of State level Committee on "NationallYIission on Sustainable Agriculture" held under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner on 7th November 2014 at 3.30pm ***** At the outset, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner and chairperson of the committee welcomed the members and initiated the discussions. The Commissioner for Agriculture briefed the committee about the excerpts of proceedings of meetings of the Technical Committee to work out Cost of installation of Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation systems held on & The Joint Director (Drip Irrigation) Horticulture Department brought to the notice of the meeting that the Action Plan for Rs. 175 crores as Central share (accompanied by appropriate State budget) was approved in the erstwhile SMIC meeting held on He then informed that now the Govt. of India has reduced its share from Rs. 175 crores to Rs crores. The Joint Director (Drip Irrigation) Horticulture Dept. requested the Chairperson to approve the action plan limiting the Central share to Rs. 124.~5 crores. Later, the Director of Agriculture briefed the committee as below: Components and Karnataka state's action plan of National Mission Sustainable Agriculture Govt. of India has given administrative approval only for Rainfed Area Development (RAD) and On-Farm Water Management (OFWM) components for the year Govt. of India has released Rs Crore as a first installment under the scheme Grants are not released from the State Govt. due to non receipt of Head of Account and proposal has been submitted to Finance Dept in this regard

5 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 quality parameters, requirements, costing and prices of different micro irrigation systems on 13th ovember The Committee authorized the Principal Secretary, Horticulture Dept. to revise the action plan limiting Central share to Rs crores under OFWM component of NMSA in respect of Horticulture, Agriculture & Sericulture Department. Principal Investigator & Professor, PFDC, UAS, Bangalore to provide per ha. requirements of materials of Sprinkler/ Drip Irrigation systems for various crops Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modeling and Networking (CCSAMMN) component of NMSA to be assigned to the Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute (EMPRI) instead of University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. Commissioner, Watershed Development Department to participate in the review meeting ofnmsa to be held on along with one Officer from the Department of Agriculture. Commissioner for Agriculture brought the issues to the notice of committee members regarding no progress made under Rainfed Agriculture Development (RAD) and no action being taken till now to implement the scheme in the field by watershed development department. Chairman instructed watershed officials to immediately speed up the field implementation and Rs Crores released from Government of India to be released to Watershed Development department for implementation of RAD Meeting concluded with vote of thanks. s: (~ara~) Additional Chief Secretary & Development Commissioner and Chairperson of the Committee

6 LIST OF ARTICIP ANTS: 1 Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner In Chair 2 Principal Secretary to Govt., Horticulture Department 3 Secretary to Govt., Forest, Environment and Biology Department 4 Commissioner for Agriculture 5 Director of Agriculture 6 Director, Watershed Development Department 7 Director, Horticulture Department 8 Vice Chancellor, UHS, Bagalakote 9 Director of Research, UAS, Bangalore 10 Director of Extension, UAS, Raichur 11 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 Department 16 Principal Investigator& Professor, PFDC, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore 17 Professor of Agronomy, UAHS, Shivamogga