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SUMMARY:Women\, water and work - examining the role of the statecraft in i
 rrigation management in Northern India - Alexandra Girard\, DPhil candidat
 e\, School of Geography and the Environment\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:kathryn humphries
DESCRIPTION:The role of the state in irrigation is contentious in India. T
 he debate over the state's position and capability to deal with environmen
 tal changes in rural areas is largely reflected in the management of irrig
 ation systems in Northern India.The Kangra Valley\, in Himachal Pradesh\, 
 has a long history of using /kuhls/\, narrow and annually-dug drainage lin
 es\, to capture surface runoffs from monsoons and snowmelt\nfor irrigation
 . While these systems have been traditionally built\, operated and maintai
 ned by male villagers\, in the past decades numerous /kuhls/'s have been o
 vertaken by the state and their management left\nunder the responsibility 
 of the Irrigation and Health Department (IPH). Since 1985\, incentives to 
 transfer operation and maintenance of state owned irrigation canals to the
  Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) have\nbrought changes in the gender dy
 namics of /kuhl /management. With new policies to increasingly involve wom
 en with PRIs and the rising number of women engaging with the Mahatma Gand
 hi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)\, the agency of women
  is now becoming an integral part of the decision-making and carrying coll
 ective actions on /kuhls/\, as opposed to existing patriarchal traditional
  management system. Using a household survey and interviews the research p
 rovides a comparative evaluation of the multiple roles of women in irrigat
 ion management and to what extent different irrigation management regimes 
 lead to better\nmeeting the needs of female water users as reflected in th
 eir level of participation and decision making.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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