Irrigation Management for Sustainable Agriculture by Rishabh Kumar, Jobin Sebastian and Arun Vishnu Kumar from the Department of Economic and Policy Research https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Bulletin/PDFs/04AR_17052022F531BC190BB0407E94745D62A7C92E3F.PDF
A declining trend in the area-weighted cost of irrigation partly reflecting the subsidised power supply and lower irrigation efficiency in most of these states. Cost and availability of energy to the farm sector along with the depth of ground water level appear to influence the irrigation efficiency. There is a need for redesigning irrigation policy including promotion of improved technological interventions to correct the inter-state irrigation imbalances