Factors affecting people participation in Hariyali project under Nalagarh block of Himachal Pradesh MK BRAHMI AND KEHAR SINGH THAKUR* * Regional Centre, National Afforestation and Eco-development Board Department of Environment Science, COF, UHF, Nauni Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni 173 230, Solan, HP ABSTRACT The study examined the programme related and socio-economic factors affecting people’s participation in Haryali project of Nalagarh block in Himachal Pradesh through a survey of 71 project related personnel and 428 farmers. The findings showed that in total 22 factors (4 pertaining to programme and 18 socio-economic) were perceived by the respondents which affected the people’s participation. Some of the key socio-economic factors influencing people’s participation were lack of awareness about programmes, illiteracy, poor economic conditions, lack of faith in government programmes, subsidy culture, village politics, lack of exposure visits, low interest in money contribution, lack of demonstrations and transparency. Programme related factors were lack of Entry Point Activities (EPA), lack of flexibility in expenditure according to field conditions, variation in wage payments and lack of provision of advance payments. Policy and development emphasis on these factors would lead to greater participation in Haryali watershed development programme. Key words: Factors, people’s participation, programmes. Journal of Farm Sciences 1(1) : 105-111, 2011 INTRODUCTION Watershed development programme is a people’s programme where the government personnel act as facilitators. The watershed concept aims at establishing an enabling environment for the integrated use, regulation and treatment of water and land resources of a watershed based ecosystem to accomplish resource conservation and bio-mass production objectives (Jensen et al 1996). The watershed approach has conventionally aimed at treating degraded lands with the help of low cost and locally assured technologies, such as in situ soil and moisture conservation measures, afforestation and through a participatory approach that seeks to secure close involvement of the user communities. Many projects designed within this approach were, at different points of time, taken up by the government of India. The Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP)