CMC has designed, developed and implemented a management information system (MIS) for this World Bank-funded project in Maharashtra, India

The product
MIS: Management Information System
A comprehensive system for the planning, design, construction, monitoring, operation and maintenance of irrigation schemes

The client
Irrigation Department, Government of Maharashtra
The department controlling water resources in India's most industrialised state

Project
Development and establishment of management information systems (MIS) for six selected major irrigation projects under the World Bank-funded Maharashtra Composite Irrigation Project - III (restructured)

Background
Out of the six selected irrigation projects, three schemes - Kukadi, Bhima and Krishna - are located in the Krishna river basin. The remaining three - Upper Penganga, Majalgaon and Jayakwadi - are located in the Godavari river basin in the state of Maharashtra.

These six projects are administered by the chief engineer (specified projects), Pune, and the chief engineer (specified projects), Aurangabad. Each of the six projects is administratively divided into two circles - a project circle, headed by a superintending engineer and a command area development (CAD) circle, headed by an administrator. Each circle administratively controls four to five divisions, and each division, in turn, has four to five sub-divisions.

A special analysis and evaluation cell (SAEC), headed by a superintending engineer, coordinates and interacts with the different project circles, CADA circles and associated institutions like the directorate of irrigation research and development (DIRD), the public works department (PWD), the revenue department (resettlement and rehabilitation), the quality control organisation and the agriculture department. The roles of the associated institutions have been specified by the state irrigation department.

Objective
The primary objective of developing and establishing an MIS for the selected major irrigation schemes was to provide a comprehensive system facilitating planning, design, construction, monitoring, operation and maintenance of the schemes.

The system developed by CMC

	Provides quick, accurate and relevant information
	Improves data management and handling capacity
	Provides effective sharing of data and information amongst various management levels and with associated offices

Scope
CMC handled the study, design, development, testing and installation of the management information system, training of officials, as well as implementation support for the system.

MIS has the following modules:

Construction

	Land acquisition
	Rehabilitation and resettlement
	Resource requirement planning
	Procurement monitoring
	Stores and inventory
	Asset management
	Schedule of rates
	Roads and bridges
	On-farm development works
	Quality control
	Construction monitoring and management
	Works accounts

Operation and maintenance

	Plan of operation and management
	Drainage network monitoring maintenance management
	Resource requirement planning
	Coordination with water users' associations (WUAs)
	Command area agriculture
	Asset management
	Integrated agriculture development
	Maintenance management
	Project management

Administration management
Personnel administration

System
The system is based on a client-server configuration. The server is a Pentium machine with open SCO Unix as the operating system and open Ingres as the back-end. The clients are 486 PCs with Gupta SQL 5.0 (with Ingres router) as the front-end, operating in MS Windows.

MIS covers the offices of the secretary, the joint secretary and the deputy secretary of the state irrigation department based in Mumbai, and is connected to the offices of the chief engineers (specified projects) in Pune and Aurangabad.