What are the four components of PMKSY and which ministry runs each?

PMKSY has four components. (1) AIBP — Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme — completes 99 prioritised major and medium irrigation projects; implemented by the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti. (2) HKKP — Har Khet Ko Pani — has four sub-components: Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM), Surface Minor Irrigation, Repair-Renovation-Restoration (RRR) of water bodies and Ground Water development; also under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. (3) PDMC — Per Drop More Crop — funds on-farm drip, sprinkler and micro-sprinkler systems; administered by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. (4) Watershed Development — now WDC-PMKSY 2.0 — funds soil and moisture conservation and ridge-to-valley treatment of rainfed land; administered by the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development.

What did the 15 December 2021 Cabinet approval do?

On 15 December 2021 the Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the continuation of PMKSY for the 2021–22 to 2025–26 cycle with an indicative total outlay of approximately ₹93,068 crore, of which ₹37,454 crore is the central assistance to states. The same Cabinet decision separately approved the Watershed Development Component (WDC-PMKSY 2.0) at an outlay of ₹8,134 crore for 2021–22 to 2025–26, covering 28 states for the treatment of 49.5 lakh hectares of degraded rainfed land. Under the continuation, AIBP was given a focus on the 60 long-pending priority projects (out of the original 99) that were not yet complete, and HKKP was given an enhanced Surface Minor Irrigation and RRR window.

What is AIBP and what does it fund?

AIBP — the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme — is a long-running Central Sector / Centrally Sponsored window first launched in 1996–97 to provide central assistance to states for the early completion of major and medium irrigation projects (those with a culturable command area greater than 2,000 hectares for major projects and between 2,000 and 10,000 hectares for medium projects). In December 2015 AIBP was folded under PMKSY and reoriented around a priority list of 99 long-pending projects (later expanded to additional projects through the 2021–26 continuation), with a target of completing each project's storage works, head-works and distribution network to deliver its planned irrigation potential. As of the 2021–26 continuation, 60-plus of the original 99 priority projects had reported full or near-full completion of head-works, with the residual list carrying the bulk of central assistance under the new cycle. AIBP is administered by the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti at dowr.gov.in.

What is HKKP and what are its sub-components?

HKKP — Har Khet Ko Pani — is the second component under PMKSY, also implemented by the Department of Water Resources, RD & GR in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, but with a different operational mandate from AIBP. Where AIBP funds the head-works and main distribution of large multi-purpose projects, HKKP funds the last-mile and the smaller water bodies. It has four sub-components: (a) Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM) — field channels, lining, distributaries and Water User Associations on completed major / medium projects; (b) Surface Minor Irrigation — diversion weirs, lift schemes and tank-based minor irrigation works up to 2,000 hectares of CCA; (c) Repair-Renovation-Restoration (RRR) of water bodies — desilting and rejuvenation of village tanks, ponds and small reservoirs; and (d) Ground Water development — assistance to states to develop ground water in identified blocks that are not over-exploited or critical under the Central Ground Water Board categorisation.

What is PDMC under PMKSY and where does it sit now?

PDMC — Per Drop More Crop — is the on-farm micro-irrigation component of PMKSY, administered by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It funds drip, sprinkler and micro-sprinkler systems at the farmer's field, fertigation and filtration equipment, secondary storage and rain-guns, at a notified subsidy of 55% of system cost for small and marginal farmers and 45% for other farmers, against a per-hectare ceiling notified in the DA&FW Operational Guidelines. Over its lifetime PDMC has brought about 78 lakh hectares under micro-irrigation. From 2022–23 PDMC's day-to-day budget head shifted out of the PMKSY umbrella and is operated alongside the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana / sustainable-agriculture portfolio; the operational guidelines, subsidy slabs and the empanelment / approval architecture have continued unchanged. See our /per-drop-more-crop guide for the field-level subsidy mechanics.

Who governs PMKSY at the national, state and district level?

PMKSY has a three-tier implementing architecture. At the apex is the National Steering Committee (NSC) chaired by the Prime Minister, with all relevant Union Ministers (Jal Shakti, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Finance) as members — it sets policy direction and inter-ministry priorities. The National Executive Committee (NEC) chaired by the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog is the operational committee, with ministry secretaries as members; it approves the annual allocations across the four components and resolves cross-ministry implementation issues. At the state level, the State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) chaired by the Chief Secretary approves the state's consolidated PMKSY proposal against the State Irrigation Plan (SIP). At the district level, the District Irrigation Plan (DIP) — prepared under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate / Collector — is the planning unit that maps water-source availability, command areas, micro-irrigation potential and watershed treatment to a five-year district investment plan that rolls up into the SIP.

What has PMKSY achieved on the ground?

Three indicative coverage numbers are commonly cited from DA&FW, MoJS and MoRD operational reports. (a) Under PDMC, about 78 lakh hectares had been brought under field-level micro-irrigation since 2015–16 — drip and sprinkler combined — concentrated in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. (b) Under WDC-PMKSY, the cumulative treatment of degraded rainfed land between IWMP-era projects and PMKSY 1.0 / 2.0 stood at roughly 49.5 lakh hectares of additional planned treatment under the 2021–26 cycle. (c) Under AIBP, 60-plus of the originally identified 99 priority major and medium irrigation projects had reported full or near-full completion of head-works as of the start of the 2021–26 cycle, with the residual list carrying the bulk of central assistance under the new continuation. Exact and current state-wise numbers are published on pmksy.gov.in and the four implementing-ministry portals.

Where are the operational guidelines and current allocations published?

PMKSY's four implementing arms each publish operational guidelines, state allocations and progress dashboards on their own portals. The Ministry of Jal Shakti's Department of Water Resources publishes AIBP and HKKP guidelines and the project-wise progress dashboard at jalshakti-dowr.gov.in and the consolidated PMKSY dashboard at pmksy.gov.in. The Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare publishes PDMC operational guidelines, subsidy slabs and empanelment lists at agriwelfare.gov.in. The Department of Land Resources publishes WDC-PMKSY 2.0 guidelines, the watershed-cluster project lists and physical / financial progress at dolr.gov.in. NITI Aayog publishes the National Executive Committee's annual review reports. Cabinet press releases of 1 July 2015 (launch) and 15 December 2021 (continuation + WDC-PMKSY 2.0) are on pib.gov.in.

PMKSY Guide — Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (launched 1 July 2015): the four-component umbrella (AIBP, HKKP, PDMC, WDC-PMKSY 2.0), the 2021–26 continuation at ~₹93,068 crore and Har Khet Ko Pani / Per Drop More Crop

The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) is the Government of India's umbrella irrigation programme, approved by the Union Cabinet on 1 July 2015 in a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the twin mottos Har Khet Ko Pani (water for every field) and Per Drop More Crop (more crop per drop). PMKSY does not run as a single fund head — instead it consolidates four pre-existing irrigation and water-management programmes into one umbrella, each implemented by a different ministry: AIBP (Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme) and HKKP (Har Khet Ko Pani) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, PDMC (Per Drop More Crop) under the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and the Watershed Development Component (now WDC-PMKSY 2.0) under the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development. On 15 December 2021 the Cabinet approved the continuation of PMKSY for 2021–26 with a total outlay of ~₹93,068 crore including ₹37,454 crore of central assistance to states. For the broader basket of farmer-welfare schemes that PMKSY sits alongside, see our India government schemes for farmers reference.

At a glance

Scheme type: umbrella programme of the Government of India consolidating four irrigation and water-management components, each implemented by its own ministry.
Launched: 1 July 2015 (Union Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister).
Mottos: Har Khet Ko Pani (water for every field) and Per Drop More Crop (more crop per drop).
2021–26 continuation: approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 December 2021 with a total outlay of ~₹93,068 crore including ₹37,454 crore of central assistance.
WDC-PMKSY 2.0: separately approved on 15 December 2021 with an ₹8,134 crore outlay for 2021–22 to 2025–26, treating 49.5 lakh hectares of degraded rainfed land across 28 states.
Four components: AIBP (MoJS), HKKP (MoJS), PDMC (DA&FW) and Watershed Development (DoLR / MoRD).
Governance: National Steering Committee under the Prime Minister; National Executive Committee under the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog; State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) under the Chief Secretary; District Irrigation Plan (DIP) under the District Magistrate / Collector rolling up into the State Irrigation Plan (SIP).
Coverage indicators: PDMC ~78 lakh ha under field-level micro-irrigation; WDC-PMKSY treatment of ~49.5 lakh ha programmed under the 2021–26 cycle; 60+ of the original 99 priority major / medium irrigation projects under AIBP at near-full head-works completion.
Portals: pmksy.gov.in, jalshakti-dowr.gov.in, agriwelfare.gov.in, dolr.gov.in.

Why an umbrella scheme — the policy logic

Before PMKSY, India's irrigation portfolio was split across at least four parallel programmes — AIBP (for major / medium projects) and the Command Area Development scheme under the Ministry of Water Resources; the On-Farm Water Management / National Mission on Micro-Irrigation under the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; and the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) under the Department of Land Resources. Each ran on its own guidelines, its own state-share pattern and its own monitoring system, with very little planning overlap at the district level. PMKSY's 2015 launch deliberately kept the four implementing ministries intact but bound them together through a common planning unit at the district — the District Irrigation Plan (DIP) — and a common state-level approval body, the State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC)chaired by the Chief Secretary. The result is one umbrella programme that lets a district plan the full water cycle from source (AIBP / HKKP storage and ridge treatment under WDC-PMKSY) through delivery (HKKP / CAD&WM field channels) to the farm-gate (PDMC drip and sprinkler).

The four components, ministry by ministry

1. AIBP — Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (MoJS)

AIBP is the oldest of the four PMKSY components, first launched in 1996–97 under the Ministry of Water Resources to provide central assistance to states for the early completion of major and medium irrigation projects — those with a culturable command area greater than 2,000 hectares for major projects and between 2,000 and 10,000 hectares for medium projects. In December 2015 AIBP was folded under PMKSY and reoriented around a notified priority list of 99 long-pending projects. The target for each priority project is to complete its storage head-works, main canal and minor distribution network to deliver the planned irrigation potential (the "Ultimate Irrigation Potential" in MoJS terminology). AIBP is now administered by the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

As of the start of the 2021–26 continuation, MoJS publicly reported that 60-plus of the original 99 priority projects had reached full or near-full completion of head-works, with the residual list carrying the bulk of central assistance under the new cycle. The 2021 continuation also added catch-up windows for previously dropped projects whose state governments revived the DPRs, and for the long-pending Polavaram National Project in Andhra Pradesh handled under a separate funding line.

2. HKKP — Har Khet Ko Pani (MoJS)

HKKP, also under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, funds the last-mile of irrigation and the smaller water bodies that sit below AIBP. It has four sub-components:

Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM): field channels, lining, distributaries and Water User Associations on already-completed major and medium irrigation projects — directly linked to AIBP project completion so that head-works storage actually reaches the farm-gate.
Surface Minor Irrigation: diversion weirs, lift schemes and tank-based minor irrigation works with a culturable command area up to 2,000 hectares.
Repair-Renovation-Restoration (RRR) of water bodies: desilting, embankment repair and rejuvenation of village tanks, ponds and small reservoirs — particularly important in peninsular India and the Bundelkhand / Vidarbha tracts where the village-tank network was the historical irrigation backbone.
Ground Water development: assistance to states to develop ground water in identified blocks that are not in the over-exploited or critical category under the Central Ground Water Board categorisation. For the demand-side complement in blocks that are already over-exploited, critical or semi-critical, see our Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) deep-dive — the ₹6,000 crore Ministry of Jal Shakti scheme for community-led groundwater management in ~8,220 water-stressed Gram Panchayats across seven states.

3. PDMC — Per Drop More Crop (DA&FW)

PDMC is the on-farm micro-irrigation component of PMKSY, administered by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare(DA&FW), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It funds drip, sprinkler and micro-sprinkler systems at the farmer's field, fertigation and filtration equipment, secondary storage tanks and rain-guns, at a notified subsidy of 55% of system cost for small and marginal farmers and 45% for other farmersagainst a per-hectare ceiling published in the DA&FW Operational Guidelines for PDMC. Over its lifetime PDMC has brought about 78 lakh hectares under field-level micro-irrigation, concentrated in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

From 2022–23, PDMC's day-to-day budget head shifted out of the PMKSY umbrella and is now operated alongside the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana / sustainable-agriculture portfolio under the post-1-October-2024 PM-RKVY architecture; the operational guidelines, subsidy slabs and the empanelment / approval architecture have continued unchanged. For the field-level subsidy mechanics — drip vs sprinkler vs micro-sprinkler, the per-hectare ceiling, the Micro-Irrigation Fund at NABARD and how a farmer actually applies — see our dedicated Per Drop More Crop guide.

4. Watershed Development Component — WDC-PMKSY 2.0 (DoLR / MoRD)

The Watershed Development Component is administered by the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development. On the launch of PMKSY in 2015 it subsumed the earlier Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP). On 15 December 2021 the Cabinet approved WDC-PMKSY 2.0 for 2021–22 to 2025–26 with an outlay of ₹8,134 crore, targeting the treatment of 49.5 lakh hectares of degraded rainfed and ridge-area land across 28 states.

WDC-PMKSY funds the standard ridge-to-valley package of soil and moisture conservation works — contour trenches, gabions, gully plugs, percolation tanks, check dams, recharge shafts, farm ponds and afforestation on degraded common lands — together with an entry-point activity, a livelihood-support sub-component for landless households and an institutional-finance window for cluster-level value-chain investments anchored by the village-level Watershed Committee. The convergence with the Soil Health Card programme is deliberate: WDC-PMKSY treatment is followed by repeat soil testing to track organic-carbon recovery on the treated catchment.

The 15 December 2021 continuation and PMKSY 2.0

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, on 15 December 2021 approved the continuation of PMKSY for the 2021–22 to 2025–26 cycle with an indicative total outlay of approximately ₹93,068 crore, of which ₹37,454 crore is the central assistance to states. The same Cabinet decision separately approved WDC-PMKSY 2.0 at an outlay of ₹8,134 crore for 2021–22 to 2025–26. Under the continuation:

AIBP was given focus on the residual 60-odd long-pending priority projects (out of the original 99) that were not yet complete, with an enhanced central-assistance window for the eight North-Eastern states and Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir.
HKKP was given an enhanced Surface Minor Irrigation and RRR window, and a separate ground-water sub-window in blocks not already classified as over-exploited or critical.
Watershed Development was rebranded WDC-PMKSY 2.0 with the explicit 49.5-lakh-hectare treatment target and a tighter convergence linkage to MGNREGS for the wage component of the works.
Polavaram National Project assistance was carved out into a separate funding line so that AIBP allocations to other priority projects were not crowded out.

Implementing architecture — NSC, NEC, SLSC, DIP and SIP

PMKSY runs on a three-tier implementing architecture that deliberately keeps planning local and approvals concentrated at the state level:

National Steering Committee (NSC): chaired by the Prime Minister, with all relevant Union Ministers (Jal Shakti, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Finance) as members. Sets policy direction and inter-ministry priorities.
National Executive Committee (NEC): chaired by the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, with ministry secretaries as members. Operational committee — approves annual allocations across the four components and resolves cross-ministry implementation issues.
State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC): chaired by the Chief Secretary of the state. Approves the state's consolidated PMKSY proposal against the State Irrigation Plan and sanctions individual projects up to the notified ceiling.
District Irrigation Plan (DIP): prepared under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate / Collector. The DIP is the planning unit that maps water-source availability (surface and ground), command areas, micro-irrigation potential and watershed treatment to a five-year district investment plan.
State Irrigation Plan (SIP): consolidates all DIPs in the state into a single five-year investment plan with annual sub-plans; signed off by the SLSC and submitted to the NEC.

The DIP / SIP framework is what makes PMKSY work as an umbrella — without it, the four ministries would each independently allocate to the same district without any coordination on which command area gets AIBP head-works, which last-mile gets HKKP / CAD&WM, which farms get PDMC drip and which upland gets WDC-PMKSY treatment.

Cost-share between Centre and State

The funding pattern varies by component but generally follows the standard centrally-sponsored scheme split:

AIBP and HKKP (MoJS components): typically 60:40 Centre-State for general states, 90:10 for the eight North-Eastern states and the Himalayan states / UTs (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh), and 100% central for Union Territories without a legislature; project-specific patterns are notified for individual AIBP projects depending on the year of inclusion.
PDMC (DA&FW): 60:40 Centre-State for general states; 90:10 for the NE / Himalayan states; 100% central for UTs without a legislature. On top of this, the per-beneficiary subsidy is 55% (small / marginal) and 45% (other) of the system cost, with states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu historically topping up out of state budget.
WDC-PMKSY 2.0 (DoLR): 60:40 general; 90:10 NE / Himalayan; 100% central for UTs without a legislature. State share is operationalised through the state watershed budget head.

Convergence with the wider farmer-welfare portfolio

Per Drop More Crop (PDMC): the PMKSY component this site documents in detail — drip / sprinkler / micro-sprinkler subsidy slabs, water savings, how to apply.
PM-KUSUM: solar pump and solarisation programme — pairs naturally with PDMC drip / sprinkler systems for fertigation in groundwater-irrigated tracts.
Soil Health Card: the soil-test-based fertiliser package; WDC-PMKSY treatment is followed by repeat soil tests to track organic-carbon recovery on the treated catchment.
Kisan Credit Card: working-capital window for the farmer's 20% contribution on PDMC systems and for cropping the additional area brought under irrigation by AIBP / HKKP works.
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana: organic-cluster convergence on WDC-PMKSY treated catchments — particularly in the rainfed organic tracts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and the North-East.
National Mission on Natural Farming: NMNF cluster overlays on PMKSY-treated watersheds, where the moisture retention from WDC-PMKSY soil and moisture conservation is a precondition for low-external-input natural farming.
India government schemes for farmers: the consolidated index of farmer-welfare schemes that PMKSY sits alongside.

References

pmksy.gov.in — Consolidated PMKSY portal — component overviews (AIBP, HKKP, PDMC, WDC), state-wise dashboards, the District Irrigation Plan / State Irrigation Plan templates and the operational-guidelines library.
jalshakti-dowr.gov.in — Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti — AIBP and HKKP operational guidelines and the 99-project priority list with project-wise physical and financial progress.
dolr.gov.in — Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development — WDC-PMKSY 2.0 guidelines (15 December 2021, ₹8,134 crore for 2021–26), the watershed-cluster project list and the ridge-to-valley treatment standards.
agriwelfare.gov.in — Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare — PDMC operational guidelines, subsidy slabs (55% small/marginal, 45% other), per-hectare ceilings, empanelment lists and the Annual Action Plan format.
pib.gov.in — Press Information Bureau — Cabinet press release of 1 July 2015 launching PMKSY and the Cabinet press release of 15 December 2021 approving the 2021–26 continuation (~₹93,068 crore) and WDC-PMKSY 2.0 (₹8,134 crore).
niti.gov.in — NITI Aayog — National Executive Committee under the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog, annual PMKSY review reports and the Composite Water Management Index framing the rationale for Per Drop More Crop.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)?: PMKSY is the Government of India's umbrella irrigation programme, approved by the Union Cabinet on 1 July 2015 in a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, with the twin mottos "Har Khet Ko Pani" (water for every field) and "Per Drop More Crop" (more crop per drop). It does not run as a single fund head — instead it consolidates four pre-existing irrigation and water-management programmes into one umbrella, each implemented by a different ministry: AIBP (Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme) and HKKP (Har Khet Ko Pani) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, PDMC (Per Drop More Crop) under the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and the Watershed Development Component under the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development. On 15 December 2021 the Cabinet approved the continuation of PMKSY for 2021–26 with a total outlay of ~₹93,068 crore including ₹37,454 crore of central assistance.
What are the four components of PMKSY and which ministry runs each?: PMKSY has four components. (1) AIBP — Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme — completes 99 prioritised major and medium irrigation projects; implemented by the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti. (2) HKKP — Har Khet Ko Pani — has four sub-components: Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM), Surface Minor Irrigation, Repair-Renovation-Restoration (RRR) of water bodies and Ground Water development; also under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. (3) PDMC — Per Drop More Crop — funds on-farm drip, sprinkler and micro-sprinkler systems; administered by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. (4) Watershed Development — now WDC-PMKSY 2.0 — funds soil and moisture conservation and ridge-to-valley treatment of rainfed land; administered by the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development.
What did the 15 December 2021 Cabinet approval do?: On 15 December 2021 the Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the continuation of PMKSY for the 2021–22 to 2025–26 cycle with an indicative total outlay of approximately ₹93,068 crore, of which ₹37,454 crore is the central assistance to states. The same Cabinet decision separately approved the Watershed Development Component (WDC-PMKSY 2.0) at an outlay of ₹8,134 crore for 2021–22 to 2025–26, covering 28 states for the treatment of 49.5 lakh hectares of degraded rainfed land. Under the continuation, AIBP was given a focus on the 60 long-pending priority projects (out of the original 99) that were not yet complete, and HKKP was given an enhanced Surface Minor Irrigation and RRR window.
What is AIBP and what does it fund?: AIBP — the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme — is a long-running Central Sector / Centrally Sponsored window first launched in 1996–97 to provide central assistance to states for the early completion of major and medium irrigation projects (those with a culturable command area greater than 2,000 hectares for major projects and between 2,000 and 10,000 hectares for medium projects). In December 2015 AIBP was folded under PMKSY and reoriented around a priority list of 99 long-pending projects (later expanded to additional projects through the 2021–26 continuation), with a target of completing each project's storage works, head-works and distribution network to deliver its planned irrigation potential. As of the 2021–26 continuation, 60-plus of the original 99 priority projects had reported full or near-full completion of head-works, with the residual list carrying the bulk of central assistance under the new cycle. AIBP is administered by the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti at dowr.gov.in.
What is HKKP and what are its sub-components?: HKKP — Har Khet Ko Pani — is the second component under PMKSY, also implemented by the Department of Water Resources, RD & GR in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, but with a different operational mandate from AIBP. Where AIBP funds the head-works and main distribution of large multi-purpose projects, HKKP funds the last-mile and the smaller water bodies. It has four sub-components: (a) Command Area Development & Water Management (CAD&WM) — field channels, lining, distributaries and Water User Associations on completed major / medium projects; (b) Surface Minor Irrigation — diversion weirs, lift schemes and tank-based minor irrigation works up to 2,000 hectares of CCA; (c) Repair-Renovation-Restoration (RRR) of water bodies — desilting and rejuvenation of village tanks, ponds and small reservoirs; and (d) Ground Water development — assistance to states to develop ground water in identified blocks that are not over-exploited or critical under the Central Ground Water Board categorisation.
What is PDMC under PMKSY and where does it sit now?: PDMC — Per Drop More Crop — is the on-farm micro-irrigation component of PMKSY, administered by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It funds drip, sprinkler and micro-sprinkler systems at the farmer's field, fertigation and filtration equipment, secondary storage and rain-guns, at a notified subsidy of 55% of system cost for small and marginal farmers and 45% for other farmers, against a per-hectare ceiling notified in the DA&FW Operational Guidelines. Over its lifetime PDMC has brought about 78 lakh hectares under micro-irrigation. From 2022–23 PDMC's day-to-day budget head shifted out of the PMKSY umbrella and is operated alongside the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana / sustainable-agriculture portfolio; the operational guidelines, subsidy slabs and the empanelment / approval architecture have continued unchanged. See our /per-drop-more-crop guide for the field-level subsidy mechanics.
What is WDC-PMKSY 2.0?: The Watershed Development Component of PMKSY (WDC-PMKSY) is the fourth umbrella component, administered by the Department of Land Resources in the Ministry of Rural Development. It subsumed the earlier Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) on the launch of PMKSY in 2015. On 15 December 2021 the Cabinet approved WDC-PMKSY 2.0 for 2021–22 to 2025–26 with an outlay of ₹8,134 crore, targeting the treatment of about 49.5 lakh hectares of degraded rainfed and ridge-area land across 28 states. WDC-PMKSY funds the standard ridge-to-valley package of soil and moisture conservation works — contour trenches, gabions, gully plugs, percolation tanks, check dams, recharge shafts, farm ponds and afforestation on degraded common lands — together with the entry-point activity, livelihood-support sub-component for landless households and an institutional-finance window for cluster-level value-chain investments anchored by the Watershed Committee at the village level.
Who governs PMKSY at the national, state and district level?: PMKSY has a three-tier implementing architecture. At the apex is the National Steering Committee (NSC) chaired by the Prime Minister, with all relevant Union Ministers (Jal Shakti, Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Finance) as members — it sets policy direction and inter-ministry priorities. The National Executive Committee (NEC) chaired by the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog is the operational committee, with ministry secretaries as members; it approves the annual allocations across the four components and resolves cross-ministry implementation issues. At the state level, the State Level Sanctioning Committee (SLSC) chaired by the Chief Secretary approves the state's consolidated PMKSY proposal against the State Irrigation Plan (SIP). At the district level, the District Irrigation Plan (DIP) — prepared under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate / Collector — is the planning unit that maps water-source availability, command areas, micro-irrigation potential and watershed treatment to a five-year district investment plan that rolls up into the SIP.
What has PMKSY achieved on the ground?: Three indicative coverage numbers are commonly cited from DA&FW, MoJS and MoRD operational reports. (a) Under PDMC, about 78 lakh hectares had been brought under field-level micro-irrigation since 2015–16 — drip and sprinkler combined — concentrated in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. (b) Under WDC-PMKSY, the cumulative treatment of degraded rainfed land between IWMP-era projects and PMKSY 1.0 / 2.0 stood at roughly 49.5 lakh hectares of additional planned treatment under the 2021–26 cycle. (c) Under AIBP, 60-plus of the originally identified 99 priority major and medium irrigation projects had reported full or near-full completion of head-works as of the start of the 2021–26 cycle, with the residual list carrying the bulk of central assistance under the new continuation. Exact and current state-wise numbers are published on pmksy.gov.in and the four implementing-ministry portals.
Where are the operational guidelines and current allocations published?: PMKSY's four implementing arms each publish operational guidelines, state allocations and progress dashboards on their own portals. The Ministry of Jal Shakti's Department of Water Resources publishes AIBP and HKKP guidelines and the project-wise progress dashboard at jalshakti-dowr.gov.in and the consolidated PMKSY dashboard at pmksy.gov.in. The Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare publishes PDMC operational guidelines, subsidy slabs and empanelment lists at agriwelfare.gov.in. The Department of Land Resources publishes WDC-PMKSY 2.0 guidelines, the watershed-cluster project lists and physical / financial progress at dolr.gov.in. NITI Aayog publishes the National Executive Committee's annual review reports. Cabinet press releases of 1 July 2015 (launch) and 15 December 2021 (continuation + WDC-PMKSY 2.0) are on pib.gov.in.

Outlays, component splits, ministry assignments, coverage numbers and the 15 December 2021 continuation figures summarised above reflect Union Cabinet press releases and publicly available operational notes on pmksy.gov.in, jalshakti-dowr.gov.in, agriwelfare.gov.in and dolr.gov.in. Annual state allocations, project-wise AIBP status and WDC-PMKSY cluster lists are revised through ministry operational circulars; state nodal officers, watershed committees and farmers should verify current terms before sanctioning or applying for assistance. Last reviewed: 2026-06-15.