Institutional Reforms in Indian IrrigationSAGE Publications, 2005 - 322 من الصفحات `Institutional Reforms in India Irrigation brings together perspectives from three scholars with research interests ranging from agricultural economics to participatory watershed management and collective action. Overall the book provides a useful overview of irrigation management in India and authoritavely reviews options for cost-recovery under irrigation management transfer programs' - Development and Change Examining the nature and scope of large-scale surface irrigation in India, this book identifies the factors leading to poor performance from a political economy perspective and suggests viable options for institutional reforms. Using empirical data on irrigation financing and farmer participation, the authors go beyond merely making policy recommendations. They make detailed calculations of the costs of irrigation development, including both capital expenditure and recurring costs. They also examine the performance of reform measures that are already in operation in Karnataka and Rajasthan, as well as evaluating the effectiveness of participatory irrigation management reforms. |
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الصفحة 128
... fees , or where those fees go , raising irrigation charges is un- likely to have a direct effect on the performance of irrigation systems— either in terms of efficiency of water use , equity of its distribution , or efficiency of system ...
... fees , or where those fees go , raising irrigation charges is un- likely to have a direct effect on the performance of irrigation systems— either in terms of efficiency of water use , equity of its distribution , or efficiency of system ...
الصفحة 180
... fee collection are a response to the recognition that state agencies are failing to collect even the relatively low level of fees assessed . Bihar , where government expenditures on fee collection alone have exceeded the revenue ...
... fee collection are a response to the recognition that state agencies are failing to collect even the relatively low level of fees assessed . Bihar , where government expenditures on fee collection alone have exceeded the revenue ...
الصفحة 195
... fees ; and it is in this department that quick decision is unlikely to come . The last time the irrigation fees were revised was in 1983. As elsewhere in the country , these fees are a small fraction of the O & M costs of the systems ...
... fees ; and it is in this department that quick decision is unlikely to come . The last time the irrigation fees were revised was in 1983. As elsewhere in the country , these fees are a small fraction of the O & M costs of the systems ...
المحتوى
Preface | 12 |
India Rajasthan and Karnataka | 29 |
Indian Surface Irrigation | 61 |
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agriculture allocated analysis Andhra Pradesh Bihar canal irrigation capital cost Chambal collective action command area committee cooperatives cost per hectare cost recovery crops direct receipts distributary efficiency estimates expenditure factors FAIA farmer participation FIGURE funds gestation lag groundwater groups Gujarat Haryana hectare IGNP improve incentives increase India infrastructure institutions investment involvement irrigated area irrigation agency Irrigation Department irrigation fees irrigation financing Irrigation Management Transfer irrigation potential irrigation projects irrigation schemes irrigation systems issues Karnataka KBJNL Krishna Raja Sagar Krishna river Maharashtra maintenance major and medium medium irrigation Meinzen-Dick ment million mobilizing O&M costs O&M expenses organizations participatory irrigation management percent performance Plan potential creation programs Rajasthan reforms revenue societies Source staff structure Tamil Nadu Temporal behavior tion Upper Krishna Project variables water charges water rates Water Resources water supply Water User Associations World Bank WUAs