Drought Policy and Politics in India

Adopting and ecological perspective, this book is a study of public policy on drought management in India. The authors argue that policy-makers have assumed drought to be a consequence of exclusively natural factors and, because of this, the planning process has been short-sighted and concerned with drought mitigation through relief, rather than with longer-term measures of drought-proofing. The book details the administrative and financial arrangements for drought mitigation in India and highlights the politics of policy-making, showing how the sanctioning of relief expenditure is often politically motivated.

ISBN	0803991223	DEWEY edition	DC20
ISBN13	9780803991224 (What's this?)	Pages	140
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc	Weight (grammes)	318
Imprint	SAGE Publications Inc	Published in	Thousand Oaks
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	229
Publication date	20 Sep 1993	Width (mm)	146
Library of Congress	HV626.I4 M	Academic level	Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY	363.3492

	List of Tables	6
	A Note from the Project Coordinator	7
	Acknowledgments	13
1	Introduction	15
2	Drought in the Long-term Perspective: Evolution of Policy	25
3	Financing of Relief Expenditure and Related Administrative Procedures	53
4	Rajasthan: Drought Proofing, Drought Relief and Political Concerns of Electoral Candidates	63
5	Participation and Representation in Parliament	77
6	Perspectives on Drought in Parliament	91
7	Concluding Remarks	117
	List of Abbreviations	127
	References given in the Note by the Project Coordinator	129
	Select Bibliography	131
	Index	136

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