The modern technologies like remote sensing and GIS are the effective and efficient systems for the assessment and management of land and water resources in the catchment areas of small river basins. These techniques are essential requisites to enhance the agricultural productivity, augmenting income and preventing degradation of soil and water. Mothkuri watershed of Nalgonda district is identified as one of the chronically drought prone areas with low and erratic rainfall coupled with poor

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... ndwater potential. As there are no major irrigation projects, the watershed area is mostly dependent on wells, bore wells and tanks for domestic and agricultural activities. The irrigation wells present in the watershed are deep bore wells with low and medium yields and are getting dried up during most part of the year due to declining groundwater levels. The degradation of forests, grass lands and low production of agricultural yields are mainly due to water scarcity. Hence, the need for assessment and management of water resources is essential from the river basin to watershed delineations for the optimum development. The objective of the present study is to improve the agricultural productivity of different crops cultivated in the villages by implementing the watershed management programmes more effectively and efficiently. The present study has been carried out by collecting both primary and secondary data. The Satellite data of IRS have been acquired and analyzed in the present analysis. The primary and secondary data sources collected from various organizations have been analyzed and presented in the visual form by using Arc GIS 10.2 and ERDAS 9.3 version software's. The secondary data has been collected from Census and HandBook of Statistics which has been analyzed and used in the present analysis. Apart from collecting primary and secondary data the researcher made field visits many times to the research area to observe the various aspects of the villages lying in the watershed.