ERRATA - Clarifications on the India Country Study

1. The India Country Study was prepared by the team of authors listed on the cover page. However, each author wrote and were responsible for individual chapters 1-6. Chapter 7 'Some Agreed Conclusions' is the output of the team as a whole.

The authorship of each chapter is indicated at the beginning of each chapter. Refer to the 'Preface' of the Final Report and to the list below which indicates the authorship of each chapter.

Chapter 1 A Historical Review

R.Rangachari

Chapter 2 A Brief Review

Nirmal Sengupta

Chapter 3 The Framework of Laws, Policies, Institutions and Procedures

Ramaswamy R. Iyer

Chapter 4 Financial, Economic and Distributional Analysis of Dams in India

Pranab Banerji

Chapter 5 Environmental and Social Impacts of Large Dams, the Indian Experience (Summary Report)

Shekhar Singh, Raman Mehta, Vishaish Uppal, Asmita Kabra, Bansuri Taneja, Prabhakar Rao

Chapter 6 Assessment of Options

Nirmal Sengupta

Chapter 7 Some Agreed Conclusions

R. Rangachari, Nirmal Sengupta, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Pranab Banerji, Shekhar Singh

2. The 'Acknowledgements' on page (ii) of the India Country Study Final Report (November 2000) relate to the contribution by Nirmal Sengupta and not the group as a whole.

3. The annexes 1-6 were produced as inputs to individual elements of the report and not to the report as a whole. The list of authors given on the annex title page should be deleted. The authors of annexes 1-6 are shown below their titles and given below for clarification.

Annex 1 A Review of Water Resource Management Expertise Developed in India

Dr N V Pundarikanthan, S N Kallapiran, P Gomathynayagan and Dr R Mohandoss (Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, India)

Annex 2 Design, Construction and Operations Procedure of Large Dams

Dr N V Pundarikanthan, S N Kallapiran, P Gomathynayagan and Dr R Mohandoss (Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, India).

Annex 3 Project and Programme Implementation

Excerpts from The Ninth Plan, Vol 1, Planning Commission's observations (pp 214-226).

Annex 4 Thoughts on Alternatives; Water Resource Development: A Bottom-Up Approach

Excerpts from Nirmal Sengupta's book: Managing Common Property: Irrigation in India and the Philippines, Chapter 5.

Annex 5 Thoughts on Alternatives Towards a Development Model in Flood Prone Areas

Excerpts from Chapter 3 of the forthcoming book: Living with the Politics of Flood , (in Hindi and English), by Dinesh Kumar Mishara (Barh Mukti Abhiyan, Bungalow no.3, NML Flas, P.O. Agrico, Jamshedpur, Bihar, India 831 009).

Annex 6 Thoughts on Alternatives Towards and Efficient and Low Cost Power Sector

Excerpts from Draft Chapter on Energy prepared by Girish Sant and Shantanu Dixit for Narmada Valley Task Force appointed by the Government of Madhya Pradesh (MP). (PRAYAS, Energy Group, Amrita Climic, Karve Road, Deccan Gymkhana, Punne, India 411 004).

4. The comments from various sources on the India Country Study appearing in Annex 7 were included for transparency and reflected a commitment on the part of the Commission to be open. The practice was common to all WCD case studies and thematic reviews.

5. The final edition of the report prepared by the authors was dated June 2000. Subsequently, the report was edited and formatted by the WCD Secretariat and the comments received on the report (Annex 7) added in compliance with standard practice for all case studies and thematic reviews. These changes were incorporated in the November 2000 edition. No substantive changes to the main text were made between these editions.