How planners can even think of DMIC & mega / smart Aurangabad city?

Jayakwadi water crisis is the combined & very complex effect of host of serious problems. On one hand, there is drastic reduction in availability of water in river basin, yield at project level, dead & live storage & actual use of provision for carry over. And on the other hand, there is significant increase in up-stream abstraction as compared to original planning, encroachment on live storage due to siltation, demands for non-irrigation & lift irrigation purposes and design as well as un-authorized upstream water use.[See Table - Facts speak volumes or confuse?]

The end result is that for last so many years there is either very negligible or even no flow irrigation in the command of Jayakwadi project. The unfortunate paradox is Jayakwadi project was originally designed exclusively for flow irrigation. 

There is one more crisis in offing. Due to severe & consistent shortage of water, industrial growth of Marathwada may not only stop but may even reverse. There are unconfirmed reports that new industrial project that was to come at Aurangabad has finally gone to another city where the water availability is better relatively speaking. Is even migration of industry in addition to migration of labor is the fate of Marathwada?

On this background, one wonders how  the planners can even think of projects like DMIC & mega / smart Aurangabad city?

                

Facts speak volumes or confuse? *

                                                                       Volume in TMC                     

Description	As per original planning	As per actual
Godavari Basin
Water available in Godawari basin up to Paithan	196	156
Up-stream abstraction	115	150
75% dependable yield  at Jayakwadi	94.4	28.32
Jayakwadi Reservoir
Live Storage	77	69
Carry over	13	Nil
Releases for Majalgaon Project	12.4	Nil
Non Irrigation: Domestic Industry Parali Power plant DMIC, Mega & Smart City “Samaantar” pipe line	Nil Nil                 Nil                  Nil Nil	3.7 1.2 6.6 ? ?
Lift Irrigation from reservoir	Nil	8.23
Utilization for Flow Irrigation	49	?

* Data compiled from various govt reports