During the pre-independence period an impression prevailed that returns to irrigation in high rainfall regions of the Indian sub-continent would be very incommensurate with the comparatively high investment outlays needed for developing irrigation resource, both under public and private aegis. In view the paucity of ex post evaluation studies, this impression still persists.
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