An Indian Case Study

Selection of the best irrigation subsystem is evaluated in a multiobjective framework for a case study of Sri Ram Sagar Project, Andhra Pradesh, India. Two Multicriterion Decision Making (MCDM) methods, namely, PROMETHEE-2 and EXPROM-2 are applied for evaluation. Eight performance criteria, namely, farm development works, environmental conservation, timely supply of inputs, conjunctive use of water resources, productivity, farmers’ participation, economic impact and social impact are evaluated for the five irrigation subsystems. Weighting of the performance criteria is calculated by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Group decision making methodology is incorporated by additive ranking analysis. Results indicated that same irrigation subsystem is found to be the best by both methods.