Yuthika Agarwal, Gopal Krishna Agarwal

Water an Element of Life (eBook, ePUB)

Price Sensitivity and Consumption by Marginalised

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses, the issues with respect to consumption of water by the marginalised (poor) sections of the society and the efficacy of using pricing policy as a tool for overall demand management of household water. It includes a case study based on the survey of the municipal water supply in Delhi. It covers water scenario at the national level, suggesting regulatory framework and reforms for the efficient urban water management in India.

There are several conflicts around the water resource such as - equitable access; competing uses; issue of quality and availability; commercialisation and privatisation, the book provides an outline for their resolution. The authors examine urban water management in relation to - reach of municipal water supply to households; price sensitivity of different income groups; consumption pattern amongst various sources; conservation efforts and public private partnership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789390513031
• Artikelnr.: 61970295

Autorenporträt

Yuthika Agarwal is working as an assistant professor of economics at Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, and is pursuing her PhD in economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is a gold medallist in Master of Philosophy-Economics from Banasthali University, and also an alumnus of Jesus and Mary College (University of Delhi) and Jamia Millia Islamia University from where she completed her graduation and post-graduation in economics respectively. Her key interest areas are teaching and social work.
She has been teaching since March 2014 and her subjects include Principals of Economics, Managerial Economics, Micro and Macro Economics, International Trade, Business Economics and Econometrics. She is an active member of Chinmaya Mission where she is a value education trainer and is involved in organising life skill camps for children and youngsters.

Gopal Krishna Agarwal is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI). He is a national spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party on economic affairs and is a founder of Jaladhikar Foundation and its national president. He was an advisor to the Namami Ganga mission, Ministry of Water Resources, GOI. He is an economic thinker and writes extensively for newspaper, financial journals, books and periodicals.

He is an independent director of ICSI IIP (Institute of Insolvency Professionals). He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), a think tank of Ministry of Corporate Affairs and a member of the Task Force on Financial Architecture of MSME, Ministry of Finance. He was government nominee on the Central Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), independent director on the Board of North Eastern Electric Power Co. (NEEPCO) and Bank of Baroda (BOB). He has drafted a private members' bill on Prevention of Bribery in Private/NGO Sector Bill placed as a private members bill in both house of the Parliament. He has written 'Corporate Anti Bribery Code' of the ICSI released by the prime minister of India.