Redefining Gujarat s Irrigation Potential-A Model

Apart from official claims, a realistic estimate of irrigation potential in Gujarat based on facts would imply that water is scarce. Such realism is necessary for a reasonable irrigation development strategy to be developed. This paper attempts to prove that major and medium irrigation potential in a fairly substantial sample of dams is determined by the variation of rainfall in the command, and it advocates inter-basin transfer of water across rainfall regions, from highly reliable to uncertain rainfall regions.