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Vinay Sankar
Vinay Sankar is a social scientist interested in political ecology and pluralist economics. He uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the commodification of commons like water and food. After his Ph.D from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, he was briefly with Christ University, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. Before switching to academia, he worked in the development sector for four years, where he was associated with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Anand, and Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), Pune.
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Addressing water scarcity in Maharashtra: Need for a policy shift
In the 1980s, Maharashtra played a pioneering role in promoting integrated watershed development to address water scarcity. In this post, Tiwale and Sankar contend that in recent years, the state has shifted to technocratic, quick-fix, and fragmented approaches to water management. They discuss two schemes – the Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan and Farm Pond on Demand – and recommend an integrated, bottom-up approach with science-based solutions, demand-side measures and appropriate institutional arrangements
