GREENING THE DESERT: Motivating Settlers in the IGNP
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- ISBN13: 8170336899
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: First
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Agriculture
The book reviews in an interdisciplinary manner internationally available literature on settlement theory and management of irrigation and Command Area Development projects. It then undertakes an in-depth analysis of the Indira Gandhi Canal (formerly Rajasthan Canal) Project which involves not only massive agro-irrigational works and efforts, but also infrastructural area development and the transformation of demographic conditions in its command area. Problems in implementing the project and especially in motivating people to settle and initiate irrigated agriculture have been identified. Lessons from settlement and irrigation management/rural development theory and also from field experiences in the project over the last 40 odd years are considered so as to identify course of action which would result in better settler motivation, optimal implementation of the Command Area Development Programme, and the eventual greening of large tracts of the Thar desert.
The book is likely to interest engineers, social scientists, and experts in agriculture, afforestation, town planning, rural development, infrastructure development, social transformation, public and project administration, land and water management, etc.
The book is likely to interest engineers, social scientists, and experts in agriculture, afforestation, town planning, rural development, infrastructure development, social transformation, public and project administration, land and water management, etc.
Rakesh Hooja is presently Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. Earlier, he has held several important assignments in Government of Rajasthan including Area Development Commissioner, Indira Gandhi Canal Project, Secretary, Command Area Development and Water Utilization and Commissioner, Agriculture Development Project.
He is a prolific writer and has, to his credit, over 300 articles, reviews and research papers and 18 books. His areas of interest include land and water management, decentralized and district planning, rural development, participatory irrigation management, watershed management, and development administration.
He spent a year at School of Development Studies, University East Anglia, UK and has attended a short course at International Irrigation Centre, Utah State University, USA besides having visited irrigation systems in Canada, USA, Chile, Argentina and Egypt.
He is a prolific writer and has, to his credit, over 300 articles, reviews and research papers and 18 books. His areas of interest include land and water management, decentralized and district planning, rural development, participatory irrigation management, watershed management, and development administration.
He spent a year at School of Development Studies, University East Anglia, UK and has attended a short course at International Irrigation Centre, Utah State University, USA besides having visited irrigation systems in Canada, USA, Chile, Argentina and Egypt.