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1 Shah, Tushaar; Bhatt, S.; Shah, R. K.; Talati, J. 2008. Groundwater governance through electricity supply management: assessing an innovative intervention in Gujarat, western India. Agricultural Water Management, 95:1233-1242.
Groundwater management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Water stress ; Water governance ; Water policy ; Electricity supplies ; Electrification ; Villages ; Tube wells ; User charges ; Water rates ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Water market / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.6.3 G635 SHA Record No: H041475)
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, this perverse relationship has meant that groundwater irrigators have essentially held Gujarat’s non-farm rural economy to ransom. Efforts to regulate groundwater overdraft since the early 1970s have been unsuccessful, as have attempts to charge a rational electricity tariff to groundwater irrigators. During 2003–2006, drawing upon a proposal outlined by researchers, the government launched the Jyotigram (lighted village) scheme, which invested US$ 290 million to separate agricultural electricity feeders from non-agricultural ones, and established a tight regimen for farm power rationing in the countryside. By 2006, Gujarat covered almost all of its 18,000 villages under the Jyotigram scheme of rationalized power supply. With this, two major changes have occurred: (a) villages receive 24 h three-phase power supply for domestic uses, in schools, hospitals, village industries, all subject to metered tariff; (b) tubewell owners receive 8 h/day of power of full voltage and on a pre-announced schedule. The Jyotigram scheme has radically improved the quality of village life, spurred non-farm economic enterprises, halved the power subsidy to agriculture, and reduced groundwater overdraft. It has also produced positive and negative impacts on medium and large farmers, while notably harming marginal farmers and the landless, who depend for their access to irrigation on water markets which have become much smaller, post-Jyotigram. In addition, the water prices charged by tubewell owners have increased by 30–50%. We propose that the Jyotigram scheme, with some refinements, can be implemented successfully in other regions of South Asia facing similar challenges of groundwater governance.
2 Shah, Tushaar; Pattnaik, I.; Bhatt, S.; Kopa, G.; Shah, A. 2012. Reinventing agricultural extension?: preliminary assessment of Gujarat’s Krishi Mahotsav (Agrarian festival) IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 9. 11p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045226)
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3 Bhatt, S.. 2012. Performance of participatory irrigation management: a study of two water users associations in Anand District of Gujarat [India]. IWMI-Tata Water Policy Research Highlight, 15. 9p.
Irrigation management ; Participatory management ; Water user associations ; Villages / India / Gujarat / Anand District
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045276)
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4 Shah, Tushaar; Pattnaik, I.; Bhatt, S.; Kopa, G. G.; Shah, A. 2013. Impact of Gujarat's Krishi Mahotsava (Agrarian Festival) campaigns: results of a perception survey of 1445 farmers from 25 districts. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68(4):583-593.
Agricultural economics ; Farmers ; Farmer participation ; Farm inputs ; Households ; Wells ; Surveys ; Exhibitions ; Marketing techniques ; Campaigns ; Technology transfer ; Innovation adoption ; Subsidies / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046355)
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Since 2005, Government of Gujarat has been organising an annual, month-long, pre-monsoon Krishi Mahotsava (Agrarian Festival) campaign to expose farmer to new farming technologies and market opportunities, enhance their interaction with scientists and input suppliers, and improve their access to various government schemes. Krishi Mahotsava entails mobilisation of government machinery on a massive scale. But does it reach out to the farmer? This paper presents the results of a sample survey of 1445 farmers from across Gujarat to understand their perceptions about the Krishi Mahotsava campaign, its impact on them and their suggestions about how to enhance its usefulness to them.
5 Ajisegiri, B.; Andres, L. A.; Bhatt, S.; Dasgupta, B.; Echenique, J. A.; Gething, P. W.; Zabludovsky, J. G.; Joseph, G. 2019. Geo-spatial modeling of access to water and sanitation in Nigeria. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 9(2):258-280. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.089]
Water availability ; Sanitation ; Hygiene ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Population ; Mapping ; Public health ; Defaecation ; Tap water ; Indicators ; Sewerage ; Models ; Uncertainty / Nigeria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049300)
https://iwaponline.com/washdev/article-pdf/9/2/258/583283/washdev0090258.pdf
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049300.pdf
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The paper presents the development and implementation of a geo-spatial model for mapping populations’ access to specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-referenced, population-representative data from the National Water and Sanitation Survey 2015, along with relevant geo-spatial covariates. The model generates predictions for levels of access to seven indicators of water and sanitation services across Nigeria at a resolution of 1 × 1 km2. Overall, the findings suggest a sharp urban–rural divide in terms of access to improved water, basic water, and improved water on premises, a low availability of piped water on premises and of sewerage systems throughout the country, a high concentration of improved sanitation in select states, and low rates of nationwide open defecation, with a few pockets of high rates of open defecation in the central and southern non-coastal regions. Predictions promise to hone the targeting of policies meant to improve access to basic services in various regions of the country.
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