India's water sector is crying for institutional and policy reforms. Its public irrigation systems are performing far below par. As a direct consequence, farmers are turning to groundwater for their irrigation needs. Booming groundwater irrigation has become the mainstay of Indian farming but it ...
Shah, Tushaar
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Giordano, Mark
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Wang, Jinxia
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[Irrigation institutions in a dynamic economy: What is China doing differently from India?]
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Irrigation institutions in a dynamic economy: What is China doing differently from India?
During the past 50 years, Gujarat has led India's exemplary growth in dairy production by forging the world's best known cooperative movement. Thanks to the market access and production enhancement programmes run by cooperatives, dairying has emerged at the centre stage of rural livelihoods syste...
Singh, Om Prakash
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Sharma, Amrita
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Singh, Rahul
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Shah, Tushaar
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[Virtual water trade in dairy economy: irrigation water productivity in Gujarat]
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Virtual water trade in dairy economy: irrigation water productivity in Gujarat
Few large irrigation projects in India have been as elaborately planned as the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), incorporating as it did the lessons of decades of irrigation project design and management. The project was to blaze a new trail in farmer-participatory irrigation project design and manag...
Shah, Tushaar
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Scott, Christopher A.
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Buechler, Stephanie J.
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[Water sector reforms in Mexico: Lessons for India's new water policy]
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Water sector reforms in Mexico: Lessons for India's new water policy
The Government of India's 15-year old Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme has come under much-deserved criticism for all-round non-performance. The AIBP needs to be taken back to the drawing board and redesigned, based on the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme, which encoura...
Shah, Tushaar
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Singh, M.
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[Accelerated programmes: what can the water sector learn from the power sector?]
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Accelerated programmes: what can the water sector learn from the power sector?
Semi-arid Gujarat has clocked high and steady growth at 9.6% per year in agricultural state domestic product since 1999-2000. What has driven this growth? The Gujarat government has aggressively pursued an innovative agriculture development programme by liberalising markets, inviting private capi...
Shah, Tushaar
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Gulati, A.
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Hemant, P.
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Shreedhar, G.
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Jain, R.C.
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[Secret of Gujarat's agrarian miracle after 2000]
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Secret of Gujarat's agrarian miracle after 2000
Gujarat, a rapidly industrializing state in western India, is notorious for groundwater over-exploitation. A perverse link between energy subsidies and groundwater overdraft has left the state with a bankrupt electricity utility and depleted aquifers, especially since the late 1980s. Moreover, th...
Shah, Tushaar
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Bhatt, S.
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Shah, R.K.
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Talati, J.
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[Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India]
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Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India
In September 2003, the government of Gujarat introduced the Jyotirgram Yojana to improve rural power supply. Two major changes have since taken place: (a) villages get 24 hour three-phase power supply for domestic use, in schools, hospitals, village industries, all subject to metered tariff; and ...
Shah, Tushaar
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Verma, Shilp
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[Co-management of electricity and groundwater: an assessment of Gujarat's Jyotirgram Scheme]
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Co-management of electricity and groundwater: an assessment of Gujarat's Jyotirgram Scheme
Scott, Christopher A.
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Shah, Tushaar
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[Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico]
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Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico
Although a lot more needs to be done to evolve a better strategy for managing the groundwater economy, a copybook transposition of the Californian and Spanish formula as argued in these columns 'Groundwater Management and Ownership' (February 16) seems na?ve, even disingenuous. A groundwater gove...