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76 Ethics and Systems Thinking

trial treatment. Nor was the failure to eliminate any of the controls discussed or
justified. Most of the conclusions were based on the one remaining trial chak with
subchaks, the Koliary outlet, comparing its performance with that of the 11 con-
trols.
Second, the Koliary outlet had a privileged location compared with the con-
trols as a whole. It was accessible to administrative headquarters at Raipur. It was
on the MRP which had more water than the HRP. It was selected because it would
be possible to assure a water supply. And it was well placed on the canal system,
being at the head of a distributary at the head of the canal. The relative positions
are shown in Table 5.2.
Third, the Koliary chak received special treatment. Before the kharif season,
the farmers on the Koliary outlet were asked if they would be prepared to plant

Table 5.2 Details of trial and control chaks, MRP and HBP

System

Chak

Position of

distributary

on canal

Position of

chak on

distributary

minor

Outlet

Com-

mand

(ha)

Number of

days taken

for completing

first irrigation

Status

C =

control

Accepted or

rejected

MRP

1 (Saja) Head Head 71.2 14 Trial Rejected

(gall midge)

2 (Koliary) Head Head 23.6 5 Trial Accepted

3 Head – 42.3 8 C Accepted

4 Middle Head 16.9 27 C Accepted

5 Middle – 50.0 17 C Accepted

6 Middle – 43.5 6 a C Accepted

7 Tail – 45.0 10 a C Accepted

8 Tail – 44.1 8 a C Accepted

9 (Kurud

tank) – – 32.35^22 C Accepted

HBP

10 Head Head 49.1 16 C Accepted

11 Head Head 18.9 6 a C Accepted

12 (Muda-

par) Middle Head 79.6^25

b Trial Rejected

(little water)

13 Middle Head 46.9 46 b C Accepted

14 Tail Head 43.5 7 C Accepted

Notes:
a ‘Due to heavy rainfall on 8.8.79’.
b ‘The supply was intermittent. The days of interruptions in canal supplies have been omitted’.

Source: WAPCOS, 1980, pp8 and 15