ABSTRACT
India lives in its villages, thus rural development has been the slogan of development right from Community Development Programme in 1952. Integrated watershed management has emerged as a holistic approach of natural resources management, i.e., land, water, forest and sustainable development of people in the countryside. The total sample size from six watershed villages was of 240 male and 240 female respondents and the total sample size from the two forest-based villages was of 60 male and 60 female respondents. The major findings of the study can be explained as the Watershed Management Programme run by various agencies in the Shivalik region. It was decided to select six villages from the watershed villages and two villages from the forest as the main source of livelihood in the sub-universe of 20 watershed and 10 forest-dependent villages. These were selected by taking recourse to a simple random sampling method.
