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The MASSCOTE application presented in this document has been initialized through a training workshop in Karnataka, for engineers and managers from the KJBNL, focussing on Upper Krishna Project in 2009. This document presents the status of the MASSCOTE application development immediately after the workshop. It has several purposes: a) suggest some specific strategies to managers of the UKP systems on how they should conceptualise the modernization of irrigation management; b) produce food for thought for decision-makers in Karnataka before engaging in investment plans, particularly on how to ensure that diagnosis and solutions are investigated properly in modernization projects; c) introduce the MASSCOTE and RAP exercises to a large audience through real-case application within the KJBNL one of the three Nigams of Karnataka; d) validate a specific module of MASSCOTE MASSLIS which is dedicated to lift irrigation system; e) introduce a new module on multiple use of water.
