Explanation:

 The proposed project would be the first stage of an integrated development strategy to rehabilitate the Sub-Himalayan Shiwalik area. It would be a pilot effort with its main focus on institution building aimed at strengthening local capabilities to plan and implement similar projects in the future. The project would contain a package of components designed to: improve the vegetative cover in the upper catchments of the Shiwalik Hills, thereby regulating run-off and reducing soil erosion; protect agricultural land below the Hills from the devastation of annual floods; and enhance the productivity of both forest and agricultural land thus protected. The project would be implemented in five watersheds in the Kandi Tract, the Punjab portion of the Shiwaliks