Tanks in Rural Purulia and Bankura: Measurement of Efficiency

Abstract

Tanks have played crucial role as a source of irrigation in different regions of India. Though a number of tank related studies were conducted in Southern and central Indian states eastern parts of the country has hardly been covered for a prolonged period of time. The present paper is a diminutive effort to study the efficiency of tanks in two most tank-dependent districts of West Bengal. In these two districts, twelve tanks were selected for the purpose of study. Relative efficiency of selected tanks has been measured using Data Envelopment Analysis. The study finds out that some tanks are more productive than the others but neither tank size nor frequency of tank rejuvenation are important for efficient working of a tank.