Mission:

Mission of the Northern Provincial Irrigation Department is providing sustainable irrigation, flood control, drainage and salt water exclusion facilities by managing the schemes in Provincial River basins.

Function

• Ensuring timely assistance of irrigation department staff in providing sustainable irrigation, drainage, Flood control and salt water exclusion facilities.
•   Crop diversification to high income yielding intensive agriculture.
•   Adoption of new appropriate water saving technology.
•   Increasing the rate of Groundwater recharge.
•   Regulating agriculture groundwater consumption.
•   Protecting groundwater resource from being exhausted or being polluted by sea water intrusion.
•   Improving mobility to facilitate recovery of underperforming schemes to their original designed performance level.
•   Improving the conditions of the existing Irrigation, Drainage, Flood Control and Salt Water Exclusion Schemes to original designed performance level.
•   Promoting Conducive Working Environment to facilitate recovery of underperforming schemes to their original designed performance level.
•   Facilitating easy accessibility to Irrigation, Drainage, Flood Control and Salt Water Exclusion Schemes.
•   Developing water resources to be shared between agriculture sector and other competitive sectors.
•   Reclaiming inundated low lying lands to be shared between agriculture sector and other competitive sectors.
•   Protecting low lying lands from floods to be shared between agriculture sector and other competitive sectors.
•   Reclaiming salt water intruded low lying lands to be shared between agriculture sector and other competitive sectors.
•   Building implementing Capacity of Irrigation Department.
•   Vesting powers and responsibilities to beneficiaries (FO) for participatory management in Irrigation Schemes.
•   Monitoring & Guiding FO’s activities.