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With availability of water decreasing rapidly in the country, the government has roped in India’s premier management institutes to suggest ways to address the problem of widening gap between irrigation potential created and utilised.
The IIMs of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Lucknow and Calcutta are conducting studies across the country to detect the causes of the problem and come up with solutions to the issue that is threatening to be major concern in the future. The report of the studies are expected to be submitted to the Union Water Resources Ministry soon.
“The details involved are big, therefore, we have sought more time…it will be completed soon,” Director, IIM-Lucknow Prof Devi Singh said. The studies have been commissioned under an MoU signed by the Water Resources Ministry with the four IIMs. The never-ending gap between irrigation potential created and actually utilised by the states has been a matter of debate for a long time.
The IIMs were roped in to suggest solutions as it was realised that the problem could assume dangerous proportions in the future, sources in the ministry said. The only time India managed to fully utilise the irrigation potential created was in the pre-Plan period when 22.60 million hectares (mh) of irrigation was created and utilised.
Official statistics show that the gap between potential created and utilised has been constantly growing since the first Five Year Plan to the tenth
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