Participatory Irrigation Management: Issues and Country Experiences

Asis Kumar Pain holds M.Phil and PhD degrees in Economics from The University of Burdwan, West Bengal. He is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Kolkata. Prior to joining Icfai, he worked on various transport related projects at the Centre for Transport Studies, Jadavpur University. He regularly contributes research papers to various refereed journals. Some of them include Indian Journal of Transport Management (Central Institute of Road Transport), Nagarlok (Indian Institute of Public Administration) and Icfai Journal of Management Research. His research area of interest is travel demand estimation using hierarchical modelling techniques.

Samrat Goswami is Ph.D. in Rural Development and Management from the University of Kalyani, West Bengal. He has completed his Post Graduation in Economics from University of Calcutta. He is currently associated with Icfai Research Center, Kolkata.Prior to joining Icfai, he worked on various World Bank and SANEI funded research projects related to Environmental and Resource Economics in Department of Economics, University of Kalyani. He contributes research papers in various refereed journals like Icfai Journal of Agricultural Economics, International Economic Journal (forthcoming). His research areas of interest are macroeconomic policies and socio-economic issues related to water resource management.