Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

B. D. Kanetkar

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THIS note attempts to provide an answer to the question: what is, and should be, the core of 'price' policy for the sale of State canal "waters to the intended beneficiaries ? The answer is developed with reference, and partly in reply, to the way in which the aim of price policy is usually enunciated in current discussions of irrigation tariff.

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M. V. Gadgil , B. D. Kanetkar

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The object of this paper is to provide a brief account of the development of water rate policy in Bombay State, and also of the principles which seem to underlie the management of its irrigation works, since the turn of the 19th century.

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B. D. Kanetkar

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The object of this note is to try to set the much-discussed problem of irrigation charges in the perspective of history. The author feels that the chief aid in answering some of the questions raised in the present debate on irrigation pricing, and by the policies of various state governments of increasing the overall water tariff, can be obtained through an enquiry concerning the way in which the whole complex of irrigation charges in India has grown up over the past decades.

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