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'''Major irrigation project''' is a classification of irrigation projects used in India. A project with a cultivable command area of more than 10000 hectares is classified as a major irrigation project.<ref name="Majumdar_irrigation">{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=Dilip Kumar |title=Irrigation Water Management Principles and Practice |date=2013 |publisher=PHI Learning Private Limited |location=Delhi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OY27AQAAQBAJ |accessdate=24 May 2019|isbn=9788120348264 }}</ref> Before the [[Five-Year Plans of India#Fifth Plan (1974–1978)|Fifth Five-Year Plan]], irrigation schemes were classified on the basis of investments needed to implement the scheme.<ref name="Dhawan_irrigation">{{cite journal |last1=Dhawan |first1=B.D. |title=Major and Minor Irrigation Works |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=30 September 1989 |volume=24 |issue=39 |pages=A117–A121 |jstor=4395392 }}</ref> Since the Fifth Five-Year Plan, India has adopted the command area-based system of classification.<ref name="Dhawan_irrigation" /><br />
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