IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijarge/v14y2018i2p165-180.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Economics of public investment in rehabilitation of water bodies in the saline zone of West Bengal, India

Author

Listed:
  • Sebak Kumar Jana
  • K. Palanisami
  • Siddhartha Sankar Manna

Abstract

Although surface irrigation through water bodies like tanks still occupies an important place in the irrigation sector in some ecologically fragile regions like saline zones of India, the importance of it has decreased over the years for various reasons. Recognising the importance of surface irrigation for agricultural development, Government of India had taken various irrigation development programmes to improve surface irrigation based on water bodies over years. The present paper attempts to do cost benefit analysis of selected 22 water bodies renovated under two public investment programs namely 'National Project for Repair, Renovation % Restoration (RRR) of Water Bodies directly linked to Agriculture' and 'Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)' in the saline zone in West Bengal. The paper finds that out of 22 selected water bodies, public investment on 19 water bodies is economically justifiable. The command area of the water body, fishing in the water body, type of the water body, existence of irrigation equipments, size of the investment are found to have significant positive impact on the net present value (NPV). The issue of salinity is found to be a great challenge in the management of water bodies in the region.

Suggested Citation

  • Sebak Kumar Jana & K. Palanisami & Siddhartha Sankar Manna, 2018. "Economics of public investment in rehabilitation of water bodies in the saline zone of West Bengal, India," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(2), pages 165-180.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:14:y:2018:i:2:p:165-180
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=93993
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jana, Sebak Kumar & Pal, Barun Deb & Manna, Siddhartha, 2023. "A Study on Participation of Farmers in Government e-Procurement of Paddy in West Bengal, India: Application of Double Hurdle Model," MPRA Paper 118027, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Jana, Sebak Kumar & Tamang, Pravesh, 2023. "Prospects of rehabilitation of ancient irrigation systems in India – A case study from coastal saline zone of West Bengal," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 207(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:14:y:2018:i:2:p:165-180. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=1 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.