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100			_aDubash, Navroz K.
245			_aThe electricity-groundwater conudrum: case for a political solution to a political problem
260			_c2007
300			_ap.45-55.
362			_a29 Dec
520			_aLow cost and low quality electricity for agriculture contributes to erosion of electricity distribution systems and encourages wasteful consumption, even as farmers are increasingly deprived of adequate and good quality power. While past efforts to solve this problem have focused on technocratic approaches, this paper attempts to articulate a political interpretation of the electricity-groundwater conundrum. The paper argues that farmers are quite rational in their current decision-making given the problematic context within which they make choices. It outlines a more explicitly political approach to the problem, based on state level bargains between stakeholders and multifaceted approach to implementing bargains. - Reproduced.
650			_aFarmers
650			_aAgriculture
650			_aGroundwater
650			_aElectricity
650			_aAgriculture
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
908			_aN
909			_a76725
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