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1 Shah, T.; Ballabh, V.; Dobrial, K.; Talati, J.. 1995. Turnover of state tubewells to farmer co-operatives: assessment of Gujarat's experience, India. In Johnson, S. H.; Vermillion, D. L.; Sagardoy, J. A. (Eds.). Irrigation management transfer: selected papers from the International Conference on Irrigation Management Transfer, Wuhan, China, 20-24 September 1994. Rome, Italy: FAO. pp.159-176. (FAO Water Reports 5)
Tube wells ; Privatization ; Irrigation management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Organizations ; Cooperatives ; Performance ; Farmers' associations ; Economic aspects / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.3 G000 JOH Record No: H015432)
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2 Kumar, M. D.; Talati, J.. 2000. Invisible, indivisible, irreversible groundwater depletion: Are there any parallels in India and Australia? Wastelands News, 16(1):15-16.
Groundwater depletion ; Environmental effects ; Tube wells ; Aquifers ; Artificial recharge / India / Australia / Gujarat / Mehsana District
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6288 Record No: H026960)
3 Kumar, M. D.; Ballabh, V.; Talati, J.. 2002. Augmenting or dividing?: Surface water management in the water scarce river basins of Sabarmati. In Thatte, C. D.; Mathur, G. N.; Chawla, A. S. (Ds.), Water for human survival: Proceedings of IWRA International Regional Symposium, New Delhi, India, November, 27-30, 2002. New Delhi, India: Central Board of Irrigation and Power. Vol.II. 13p.
River basins ; Water management ; Irrigation management ; Runoff ; Water governance ; Water supply ; Water allocation ; Performance evaluation ; Irrigation programs ; Conflict ; Water distribution / India / Sabarmati River Basin / Narmada / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7 KUM Record No: H031928)
4 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.
5 Talati, J.; Shah, Tushaar. 2009. Institutional Vacuum in Sardar-Sarovar Project: Framing ‘Rules-of-the-Game’ In International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Strategic Analyses of the National River Linking Project (NRLP) of India Series 5. Proceedings of the Second National Workshop on Strategic Issues in Indian Irrigation, New Delhi, India, 8-9 April 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.95-106.
Irrigation programs ; River basins ; Groundwater irrigation ; Surface irrigation ; Water user associations ; Water allocation / India / Sardar-Sarovar Project / Narmada
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042688)
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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 management with water user associations (WUAs) building their own distribution systems. However, as it unfolds, the institutional reality of the project is seen to be vastly different from its plans. If SSP is to chart a different course from scores of earlier large irrigationprojects, it must invent and put into place new rules of the irrigation management game.
6 Shah, T.; Ballabh, V.; Dobrial, K.; Talati, J.. 1994. Turnover of state tubewells to farmer co-operatives: assessment of Gujarat's experience, India. In IIMI; Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering. International Conference on Irrigation Management Transfer, Wuhan, China, 20-24 September 1994. Draft conference papers. Vol.1. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI); Wuhan, China: Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering. pp.229-243.
Tube wells ; Privatization ; Irrigation management ; Groundwater irrigation ; Organizations ; Cooperatives ; Performance ; Farmers' associations ; Economic aspects / India / Gujarat
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IIMI 631.7.3 G000 IIM Record No: H043529)
7 Talati, J.; Shah, Tushaar. 2016. Institutional vacuum in Sardar Sarovar Project: framing ‘rules-of-the-game’. In Shah, M.; Vijayshankar, P. S. (Eds.). Water: growing understanding, emerging perspectives. New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan. pp.47-59. (Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society)
Irrigation programs ; Water distribution ; Water user associations ; Community involvement ; Farmers ; Water rates ; Irrigation canals ; Pumping ; Institutional constraints ; Assessment ; Villages / India / Gujarat / Sardar Sarovar Project / Narmada Irrigation System
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047745)
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