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1 Shah, Tushaar; Chowdhury, S. D.. 2017. Farm power policies and groundwater markets contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990–2015) Economic and Political Weekly, 52(25&26):39-47.
Groundwater irrigation ; Farm planning ; Market policy ; Farmer participation ; Tenant farmers ; Water market ; Subsidies ; Electricity supplies ; Tube wells ; Rice ; Pumps / India / Gujarat / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048202)
With India emerging as the world’s largest groundwater irrigator, marginal farmers and tenants in many parts have come to depend on informal water markets for irrigation. Power subsidies have grown these markets and made them pro-poor, but are also responsible for groundwater depletion, and for financial troubles of electricity distribution companies of India or DISCOMs. Gujarat has successfully reduced subsidies by rationing farm power supply, and West Bengal has done so by charging farmers commercial power tariff on metered consumption. Subsidy reforms have hit poor farmers and tenants hard in both the states. Gujarat has tried to support the poor, with some success, by prioritising them in allocating new tube well connections. We argue that West Bengal too can support its poor by tweaking its farm power pricing formula to turn a sellers’ water market into a buyers’ one.
2 Shah, M.; Chowdhury, S. D.; Shah, Tushaar. 2018. Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal – III: results of ITP’s Monoharpur experiment. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 5. 8p.
Pumps ; Subsidies ; Irrigated land ; Water market ; Water rates ; Water policy ; Stakeholders ; Farmers / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049098)
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3 Shah, Manisha; Chowdhury, S. D.; Shah, Tushaar. 2018. Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal: analytical background for a policy pilot in Monoharpur village, West Bengal. In Swain, M.; Kalamkar, S. S. (Eds). Water governance in India: issues and concerns. New Delhi, India: Allied Publishers. pp.265-276.
Groundwater irrigation ; Electricity ; Energy consumption ; Shallow tube wells ; Pumps ; Water market ; Water rates ; Water pricing ; Tariffs ; Water policy ; Farmers ; Economic aspects ; Villages / India / West Bengal / Monoharpur
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049510)
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4 Mukherji, Aditi; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mitra, Archisman; Banerjee, P. S.; Chowdhury, S. D.. 2020. Does increased access to groundwater irrigation through electricity reforms affect agricultural and groundwater outcomes?: evidence from West Bengal, India. Final project report submitted to the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 64p.
Groundwater irrigation ; Water availability ; Electricity supplies ; Reforms ; Electrification ; Pumps ; Agricultural development ; Cropping patterns ; Crop yield ; Rice ; Share cropping ; Monsoon climate ; Water market ; Tariffs ; Energy consumption ; Tube wells ; Water policy ; Groundwater table ; Farmers ; Women's participation ; Villages ; Socioeconomic environment ; Migration ; Econometrics / India / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049869)
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5 Shah, Tushaar; Chowdhury, S. D.. 2021. Farm power policies and groundwater markets: contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990-2015). In Fujita, K.; Mizushima, T. (Eds.). Sustainable development in India: groundwater irrigation, energy use, and food production. Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.226-247. (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies)
Groundwater ; Water market ; Policies ; Tariffs ; Pumps ; Farmers ; Water rates / India / Gujarat / West Bengal
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H050615)
This chapter examines the effects of such power sector reforms on the functioning of groundwater markets at the local level by comparing the cases of Gujarat and West Bengal. In Gujarat, an innovative power sector reform program (called Jotigram Yojona) was launched. The West Bengal state government, on the contrary, introduced a metering system to agriculture in place of the flat tariff while abolishing the electric tube well permit system. Consequently, the groundwater markets shrunk and/or the water charges paid by less resourceful farmers to the well owners increased in both states. The results imply that the power sector reforms, although they contributed to the reduction of the nexus problem, produced severe ill effects upon the farmers placed in weaker market positions.
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