Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India
Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India
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2021-04-04
Authors
Philip Kuriachen
A. Suresh
K. S. Aditya
P. Venkatesh
Biswajit Sen
Sharath S. Yeligar
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Taylor & Francis
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This paper examines the inequity in irrigation distribution in India
using a variant of Theil’s entropy measure for the period 1995–2010.
The analysis reveals that the level of inequity in irrigation distribution
has increased over time. Inequity has declined in canal, tank
and well-irrigated systems and increased in the tube well-irrigated
system. Decomposition analysis revealed that regional disparities
have declined in all sources of irrigation except for tube wells. The
role of property rights to groundwater, groundwater markets,
energy pricing policy and competitive deepening of wells in worsening
the inequity in access to groundwater resources is also
discussed.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT 2022, VOL. 38, NO. 3, 480–496 https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1912715