Irrigation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Irrigation Engineering (subject code DI04006061) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 51 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI04006061)Unit 1 Introduction to Irrigation
- Necessity of Irrigation
- Advantages and Disadvantages
- purpose of irrigation
- Historical development of irrigation in India
- Classification of Irrigation Projects
- Assessment of charges for irrigation water
Unit 2 Water Requirement of Crops
- Principal Indian crops and their water requirements
- cropping seasons in India
- Basic Soil-water-plant relationship
- frequency of irrigation
- Irrigation Efficiency
- factors affecting consumptive use of water
- Command Areas
- Definitions: Duty
- Base Period and relation between them
- Factors affecting Duty
- Methods for improving Duty
Unit 3 Irrigation System and Method of Irrigation
- Irrigation System: Types of irrigation systems
- Gravity and Lift Irrigation
- Well and Tube well irrigation
- Sewage irrigation and Supplemental Irrigation Methods of irrigation: Sub-surface irrigation and Surface irrigation
- Buried irrigation
- Drip irrigation
- component parts
- precautions and maintenance
Unit 4 Dams and Reservoirs Planning
- Dams Planning: Introduction
- Selection of dam site
- Types of dams
- Selection of type of dams and its classification
- factors affecting selection of particular type of dam Reservoirs Planning: Purpose and Classification of reservoirs
- Selection of site for reservoir
- Storage zones
- Reservoir sedimentation and its control
- Reservoir losses
- life of reservoir 07
Unit 5 Irrigation Canals and Regulating & Cross Drainage works
- 09 Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Civil Engineering Subject Code : DI04006061 Course / Subject Name: Irrigation Engineering Irrigation Canals: Types of canals
- Distribution system
- Loss of water in canals
- Different components of irrigation canals and their functions
- Different canal cross sections
- Classification of canals according to their alignment
- Canal lining-advantages and disadvantages Regulating & Cross Drainage works: Canal falls
- Various types of Cross-drainage works and their necessity
- Head and Cross Regulator
- Canal escapes
- Silt extractor
- Types of irrigation outlets
Unit 6 Water logging
- Reclamation and Drainage Introduction
- Causes and effects of water logging
- Anti-water logging measures
- Land reclamation
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