Multicriterion decision making in performance evaluation of an irrigation system

The selection of the best alternative in irrigation development strategies is examined in the multiobjective context. Sri Ram Sagar Project, a major irrigation project in India, is taken for the case study. The study deals with the performance evaluation of five canal distributories by considering eight different criteria. Two Multicriterion Decision Making methods, namely, Multi Attribute Utility Theory and Stochastic extension of PROMETHEE-2, are employed to select the best one among the five. Taguchi experimental design technique is employed to minimise the computational burden arising in the sensitivity analysis studies. The proposed methodology can serve as a model to choose the best one for formulating guide lines for improving the efficiency and performance of similar other distributories.