Water Resources Department, formerly known as Irrigation  Department of Government of Maharashtra has a glorious history of Irrigation over last 150 years. Independent websites, up to the Circle level are launched by the department. Basically, this website provides links to the various websites of Water Resources Department in addition to general information.   

The State Water resources Department tackles Irrigation projects which irrigate area more than 250 Hectares of land. This Web site pertains to such Irrigation Projects.

When the area lies between 100 Ha to 250 Ha such projects belongs to Water Conservation Department. The projects irrigating area less than 100 Ha are in the control of Local Self Govt. i.e. Zilla Parishads