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International Journal of Rural Management, 2011
ABSTRACT An innocuous diversion of rainwater into their farm wells by a few farmers two decades a... more ABSTRACT An innocuous diversion of rainwater into their farm wells by a few farmers two decades ago has triggered a water-centric social movement popularly known as the Saurashtra groundwater recharging movement in the southwestern part of Gujarat, India. Since irrigation is a socio-technical phenomenon, this paper attempts to capture the social and technical factors that influenced and shaped the demands and responses, and the shaping of the irrigation technology on the livelihood canvas. Apart from income as a key indicator, as a part of the socio-technical approach, the paper also examines several evidences that contributed to the total income, including agricultural income. These include crops and cropping decisions, changes in cropping intensity, shift from unirrigated land to irrigated land, changes in the number and composition of pump sets, well structuration in terms of depth, radial horizontal bores and depth limitations. The paper also analyzes the quantum of recharge estimated at the village level with the stage of groundwater development. The agrarian livelihood decisions reflect farmers’ wisdom of adaptive techniques. The movement also got a boost due to the Gram Jyoti Yojana that provided an assured supply of energy for a certain number of hours every day.
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... Title: Fluid mosaic : water governance in the context of variability, uncertainty and change;... more ... Title: Fluid mosaic : water governance in the context of variability, uncertainty and change; a synthesis paper. Other Titles: RPE CBNRM. ... Keywords: WATER MANAGEMENT WATER SUPPLYGOVERNANCE CONFLICTS NEPAL INDIA GROUNDWATER WATER POLLUTION. ...
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Groundwater has come to occupy a critical position in terms of dependency for all categories of u... more Groundwater has come to occupy a critical position in terms of dependency for all categories of uses, for drinking water and agriculture in particular. Secular decline of water levels combined with deficit recharge conditions have had led to responses by both the people and the government, often in isolation of each other, such that the overall water scarcity continued severely limiting the efficacy of the efforts. Added to this, there are uncertainties around recharge assessment methods. The objective of this paper is to compare recharge estimates obtained using standard technical methods, namely, the Water Level & Specific Yield Method and the Regression Method, with those obtained from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) Method of University of East Anglia. The CRU method takes into consideration the climate parameters, whereas in the former two methods, all these are subsumed. The computation is done on six villages of Rajkot district which were part of the Saurashtra ground water recharging movement. The rainfall-recharge relationship is also analysed for the study villages for the purpose of enhancing understanding of the phenomenon of recharge. The paper concludes that the results obtained by the three methods are comparable; while the Water Level & Specific Yield Method is a practical and elegant method, CRU method can be used beneficially when no data on water levels is available.
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The Divine Experiences Bestowed by Amma: English translation by Dr Srinivas Mudrakartha and Veena... more The Divine Experiences Bestowed by Amma: English translation by Dr Srinivas Mudrakartha and Veenadhari Mudrakartha - original Telugu version by Sri T. Triloka Appa Rao.
Jillellamudi Amma has been an embodiment of compassion and love. One of her children who enjoyed the proximity of Amma is the original author Triloka Appa Rao. His honest rendering of real life experiences, and his total commitment to Amma and her philosophy inspired us to translate the original Telugu version into English so that it reaches out to larger readership. It is a spiritual treat to read brother Appa Rao’s divine experiences of how Lord Sri Rama appeared as Amma in Bhadrachalam, and in the form of the Pradhana Archaka (chief priest) of Simhachalam, when he was in dire straits.
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It is interesting and heartening to see that in spite of the externalities, people h... more Conclusions
It is interesting and heartening to see that in spite of the externalities, people have faith in community-based institutions. Significantly, the thought process of addressing water level declines and the associated livelihood issues among the people has taken a big leap in terms of understanding the geological controls as contrasted with blind chasing of groundwater resorted to till recently. The “regional” nature of groundwater is also well appreciated; the need for regional actions, and appropriate regional institutional arrangements that have participation from the bottommost village in a basin or sub-basin context seems to have become very clear.
In other words, there is a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding developed among village level communities. However, the basic challenge that remains is to ensure a proper policy and regulatory framework to sustain and encourage community based initiatives so essential to tackle a dispersed, unclear and a common pool resource such as the groundwater. Further, how far and how long such community-based initiatives will survive, especially in view of the external challenges such as globalisation, is a key question; particularly because globalisation has brought in its wake urbanisation which has weakening of collective action as one of its major characteristics.
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International Journal of Rural Management, Oct 19, 2012
An innocuous diversion of rainwater into their farm wells by a few farmers two decades ago has tr... more An innocuous diversion of rainwater into their farm wells by a few farmers two decades ago has triggered a water-centric social movement popularly known as the Saurashtra groundwater recharging movement in the southwestern part of Gujarat, India. Since irrigation is a socio-technical phenomenon, this paper attempts to capture the social and technical factors that influenced and shaped the demands and responses, and the shaping of the irrigation technology on the livelihood canvas. Apart from income as a key indicator, as a part of the socio-technical approach, the paper also examines several evidences that contributed to the total income, including agricultural income. These include crops and cropping decisions, changes in cropping intensity, shift from unirrigated land to irrigated land, changes in the number and composition of pump sets, well structuration in terms of depth, radial horizontal bores and depth limitations.
The paper also analyzes the quantum of recharge estimated at the village level with the stage of groundwater development. The agrarian livelihood decisions reflect farmers’ wisdom of adaptive techniques. The movement also got a boost due to the Gram Jyoti Yojana that provided an assured supply of energy for a certain number of hours every day.
Article
International Journal of
Rural Management
7(1&2) 43–82
2011 Institute of Rural Management
SAGE Publications
Los Angeles, London,
New Delhi, Singapore,
Washington DC
DOI: 10.1177/0973005212459827
http://irm.sagepub.com
Srinivas Mudrakartha, M.S. Rathore and Sudhanshu
International Journal of Rural Management, 7, 1&2 (2011): 43–82
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Papers by Dr Srinivas Mudrakartha
Jillellamudi Amma has been an embodiment of compassion and love. One of her children who enjoyed the proximity of Amma is the original author Triloka Appa Rao. His honest rendering of real life experiences, and his total commitment to Amma and her philosophy inspired us to translate the original Telugu version into English so that it reaches out to larger readership. It is a spiritual treat to read brother Appa Rao’s divine experiences of how Lord Sri Rama appeared as Amma in Bhadrachalam, and in the form of the Pradhana Archaka (chief priest) of Simhachalam, when he was in dire straits.
It is interesting and heartening to see that in spite of the externalities, people have faith in community-based institutions. Significantly, the thought process of addressing water level declines and the associated livelihood issues among the people has taken a big leap in terms of understanding the geological controls as contrasted with blind chasing of groundwater resorted to till recently. The “regional” nature of groundwater is also well appreciated; the need for regional actions, and appropriate regional institutional arrangements that have participation from the bottommost village in a basin or sub-basin context seems to have become very clear.
In other words, there is a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding developed among village level communities. However, the basic challenge that remains is to ensure a proper policy and regulatory framework to sustain and encourage community based initiatives so essential to tackle a dispersed, unclear and a common pool resource such as the groundwater. Further, how far and how long such community-based initiatives will survive, especially in view of the external challenges such as globalisation, is a key question; particularly because globalisation has brought in its wake urbanisation which has weakening of collective action as one of its major characteristics.
The paper also analyzes the quantum of recharge estimated at the village level with the stage of groundwater development. The agrarian livelihood decisions reflect farmers’ wisdom of adaptive techniques. The movement also got a boost due to the Gram Jyoti Yojana that provided an assured supply of energy for a certain number of hours every day.
Article
International Journal of
Rural Management
7(1&2) 43–82
2011 Institute of Rural Management
SAGE Publications
Los Angeles, London,
New Delhi, Singapore,
Washington DC
DOI: 10.1177/0973005212459827
http://irm.sagepub.com
Srinivas Mudrakartha, M.S. Rathore and Sudhanshu
International Journal of Rural Management, 7, 1&2 (2011): 43–82
Jillellamudi Amma has been an embodiment of compassion and love. One of her children who enjoyed the proximity of Amma is the original author Triloka Appa Rao. His honest rendering of real life experiences, and his total commitment to Amma and her philosophy inspired us to translate the original Telugu version into English so that it reaches out to larger readership. It is a spiritual treat to read brother Appa Rao’s divine experiences of how Lord Sri Rama appeared as Amma in Bhadrachalam, and in the form of the Pradhana Archaka (chief priest) of Simhachalam, when he was in dire straits.
It is interesting and heartening to see that in spite of the externalities, people have faith in community-based institutions. Significantly, the thought process of addressing water level declines and the associated livelihood issues among the people has taken a big leap in terms of understanding the geological controls as contrasted with blind chasing of groundwater resorted to till recently. The “regional” nature of groundwater is also well appreciated; the need for regional actions, and appropriate regional institutional arrangements that have participation from the bottommost village in a basin or sub-basin context seems to have become very clear.
In other words, there is a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding developed among village level communities. However, the basic challenge that remains is to ensure a proper policy and regulatory framework to sustain and encourage community based initiatives so essential to tackle a dispersed, unclear and a common pool resource such as the groundwater. Further, how far and how long such community-based initiatives will survive, especially in view of the external challenges such as globalisation, is a key question; particularly because globalisation has brought in its wake urbanisation which has weakening of collective action as one of its major characteristics.
The paper also analyzes the quantum of recharge estimated at the village level with the stage of groundwater development. The agrarian livelihood decisions reflect farmers’ wisdom of adaptive techniques. The movement also got a boost due to the Gram Jyoti Yojana that provided an assured supply of energy for a certain number of hours every day.
Article
International Journal of
Rural Management
7(1&2) 43–82
2011 Institute of Rural Management
SAGE Publications
Los Angeles, London,
New Delhi, Singapore,
Washington DC
DOI: 10.1177/0973005212459827
http://irm.sagepub.com
Srinivas Mudrakartha, M.S. Rathore and Sudhanshu
International Journal of Rural Management, 7, 1&2 (2011): 43–82