Watershed Management as a Tool for Changing the Kaleidoscope of Central India: A Case Study from Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh, India

Watershed management is an approach of area planning of natural resources to sub-serve the socio-economic needs of the human society or community concerned. At present this concept has become a key for improving the soil and water resources, productivity and ecological restoration of rain-fed areas. The present paper focuses on the impacts of implementation of watershed management practices adopted for the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Mission Programme executed for the Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh state has set an excellent model of natural resource conservation, management and ecological restoration process. It has been concluded with the note that there is a nationwide need to adopt such types of natural resource management practices.