Pond rejuvenation in Hisar (Hissar)

Hisar's ponds in numbers

• The 1st Census of Water Bodies counted 1,086 water bodies in Hisar district, 1,084 of them ponds. 295 were not in use. See them on the ponds page for Hisar.
• The Haryana Water Resources Atlas 2025 maps 2,140 ponds covering 3,619 acres from satellite data, and counts 68,215 irrigation tubewells in the district.
• The Central Ground Water Board puts Hisar's groundwater use at 73% of what can safely be taken out each year (2025), which it rates semi-critical. See the groundwater page for Hisar.
• CGWB's pre-monsoon readings put water at 5–10 m below ground in most of its 30 monitoring wells in Hisar district, from 3.68 m in the shallowest to 22.43 m in the deepest. See the water table page.
• CGWB's 2023 testing found salt and fluoride above the BIS limit in groundwater samples from the district, 19 of 58 samples over the limit for salt and 14 of 58 samples over the limit for fluoride. See the water quality page.
• Hisar gets about 529 mm of rain in an average year (2006–2025), 78% of it from June to September. See the rainfall page.

What Hisar's ponds need

Many Hisar villages fill a pond or storage tank from the canal when it runs and draw on it until the next turn. These ponds need clean, lined inlets from the canal, desilting and banks that keep village runoff out.

CGWB found salt and fluoride over the safe limit in a large share of Hisar's samples. Where the water below is saline, a pond is for storage, not recharge, and its bed should not be broken through into salty layers.

How we rejuvenate a pond in Hisar

1. 01

   Records and survey

   We take the pond's boundary from the revenue records, then GPS-survey the bed levels, silt depth, inlets, outlets, encroachments and every drain that enters it.

2. 02

   Clean the canal inlet

   The canal feed is cleaned or rebuilt with a silt chamber and screen, and village runoff and drains are kept out of ponds used for drinking water storage.

3. 03

   DPR and BOQ

   Storage before and after, catchment and inflow, drawings, an item-wise cost and a schedule that the owner or a CSR committee can approve. Work out the volumes first with the pond volume calculator.

4. 04

   Desilt, deepen and build

   Excavators remove the silt sealing the bed; clean silt goes to farmers' fields. Then silt traps on every inlet, earthen or stone-pitched banks, ghats and steps.

5. 05

   Plant, fence and hand over

   Plantation, fencing and signboards, then handover with as-built drawings and a yearly upkeep plan.

What pond rejuvenation costs in Hisar

Earthwork is the biggest cost. One acre dug 1 m deeper moves about 4,050 m³ of silt; where farmers nearby take it, carting costs little, and where it must be hauled away, the price rises.

The same ranges as our pond rejuvenation page, for budgeting. Silt depth, carting distance, sewage diversion and stone pitching move the price most; the survey fixes it.

Who pays for pond work in Hisar

• Gram panchayats, through MGNREGA for earthwork by village labour and Mission Amrit Sarovar.
• The Haryana Pond and Waste Water Management Authority, which runs the state's pond revival and treated wastewater programs.
• The Municipal Corporation of Hisar for ponds inside the city.
• The Public Health Engineering Department for canal-fed village water works.
• CSR: pond revival is a Schedule VII activity for companies. See CSR water conservation projects.

Where we work

All of Hisar district: Hisar city, Hansi, Barwala, Adampur, Narnaund, Uklana and the villages around them. We also work in Rohtak.

Frequently asked questions