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Wells and welfare in the Ganga Basin: public policy and private initiative in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

This report analyzes the history of groundwater development in the eastern Uttar Pradesh region over the 1950-1990 period. Its main conclusion is that the story of groundwater-based livelihood creation in the Ganga basin is one of failed public initiatives and successful adaptive responses by privat...

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Main Author: Shah, Tushaar
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: International Water Management Institute 2001
Subjects:
farmer-led irrigation
river basins
groundwater management
groundwater development
groundwater irrigation
pumps
tube wells
public policy
poverty
social aspects
flood water
water market
waterlogging
electricity supplies
energy
pricing
rural development
villages
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39841
Summary:This report analyzes the history of groundwater development in the eastern Uttar Pradesh region over the 1950-1990 period. Its main conclusion is that the story of groundwater-based livelihood creation in the Ganga basin is one of failed public initiatives and successful adaptive responses by private agents. However, tube-well-induced agrarian dynamism in eastern Uttar Pradesh and north Bihar in recent years can spread to the entire basin if public policy makers learn correct lessons from the experience of these two subregions.

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