1991 Bachelor of Science,
1994 Master of Social Work, Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh
1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Planning, CEPT, Ahmedabad,Gujarat.

- Sociologist( GrI), Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh\
(August 1995- November1996)

- Project Associate, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gota, Ahmedabad, Gujarat (Feb 1999- March 2000)

Politics, Policy and Institutional Interventions: A case study of Andhra Pradesh irrigation reforms, South India

How have the reforms in irrigation sector evolved and what are the reform policy implications on irrigation system management and turnover?

Major canal system commands require huge investments and human resource to maintain them. Governments are increasingly failing in allocating the huge budgets required for the system maintenances and hence transferring the management to the user groups is an alternative solution to avoid the system decay and increased user participation results in better results in achieving, production, efficiency and equity. What are methods adapted by the governments in transferring the rights to management and how these reform policies translated in to practice. What are the institutional dynamics and how they are influenced by the local process. Do these reform policies address the concerns of marginal groups or favours only a section of the users?

Prof. Linden Vincent, Chair, IWE,WAU Dr. Peter Mollinga, IWE,WAU
Drs.Dik Roth, Law and Governance group, WAU
Dr.Parthasarathy R. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India

Wageningen university, The Netherlands and Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gujarat, India

- Paper presented in the second Biennial Conference of Indian Society for Ecological Economics at IIFM, Bhopal on 19-21December,2001 and accepted for the publication in the post Conference volume.

- Paper titled "Irrigation reforms, Institutions and livelihoods: case study of Andhra pradesh"

- Research paper titled " Using Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable forest Resource Management: Case Study of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India" edited by Prof.Anil K Gupta, published by Oxford & IBH Publishers.

- Paper selected under the young scholars Competition organized by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Sponsored by UNESCO.

Research / Published Work
"Accountability of Panchayats", Letter to the Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, October 2, 2004.

"FMIS AND GOVERNANCE: Challenges and Opportunities -Evidence from India and Nepal", Presented in The 3rd International Seminar on Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems and Governance Alternatives, 9-10 September 2004, Kathmandu. (Co authored with Pranita Bhushan Udas)

"Water Allocation under PIM in Andhra Pradesh: Defiance of Technical Strategies" National Workshop on Participatory Irrigation Management and Volumetric Measurement, by WALMI in collaboration with SOPPECOM, 2-3, July 2004, Aurangabad, Maharashtra (co authored with Jasveen Jairath) 

"Monarchy and Maoism", Letter to the Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, June 19-25, 2004.

" Scarcity of Water or Governance? Case of Telugu Ganga Project, Krishna River basin, India" Poster presentation in The 14th Stockholm Water Symposium, August 16-20,2004. Stockholm. 

"Water Rights, Conflicts and Collective Action, Case of Telugu Ganga Project, India" poster /paper presentation in the 10th Biennial Conference of IASCP, 9-13 August 2004, Oaxaca, Mexico. Can be accessed at 
http://www.iascp2004.org.mx
/downloads/paper_088.pdf

"Struggle for Land Rights" LEISA India, Vol 5, No.3, September 2003 (co authored with Pranita Bhushan)

"Bureaucracy and Irrigation Reforms: Case of Andhra Pradesh Participatory Irrigation Management Programme", paper presented at Policy Processes Workshop, organized by Centre for Economics and Social Studies (CESS), Feb 27-01 March, 2003 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

"Water Users Associations in Irrigation Management: Opportunities and challenges for collective action: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh Participatory Irrigation Management Program", NIRD foundation day seminar Jan 29-30, 2003 (co authored with Pranita Bhushan) 

"Irrigation reforms, Institutions and livelihoods: Case study of Andhra Pradesh", in Water, Resources, Sustainable Livelihoods and Eco Systems Services, Kanchan Chopra et. al 2003. Edited volume. Concept Publishing Company. New Delhi.

"Water Users Associations in Irrigation Management: Case of Andhra Pradesh, South India ;Opportunities and challenges for collective Action" Paper accepted for The 9th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the study of Common Property (IASCP), 17-21June 2002, Victoria Falls. See http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive
/00000892/00/nikkub010402.pdf 

"Using Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable forest Resource Management: Case Study of Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India" in (ed) Gupta K Anil (2000), published by Oxford & IBH Publishers. The present Paper selected under the young scholars Competition organized by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Sponsored by UNESCO.