New Delhi More than half of the irrigation projects that are to be taken up in the current 12th Five-Year Plan are a spillover from the 11th Plan. Huge time and cost overruns are the major cause of concern in the creation of major and minor irrigation projects in the country, a Planning Commission working group on the 12th Plan has stated in its report.

Out of the 583 irrigation projects, including creation of small and medium facilities, and extension, renovation and modernisation (ERM) of the existing ones, that will be taken up during the 12th Plan period (2012-17), 327 are carry-overs from the 11th Plan, says the plan panel report.