Water and Public Policy in India

Deepti Acharya is a political scientist and a researcher. For the last 15 years, she has been associated with the department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, as Senior Assistant Professor of Political Studies. As a faculty and a guide, she is allied with different faculties, institutions and departments, including All India Services Training Center, The M.S. University of Baroda (2010-14), Faculty of Law, Department of Architecture and Faculty of technology of the M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara (2010-13) and Department of Political Science, Parul University of Vadodara, India. She has presented several papers in the international and national seminars and have dozens of research papers in her credit.

1. Introduction 2. The Concept of Right to Water: Emergence and Evolution 3. Indian understanding on Right to Water 4. Right to Water in India’s National Water Policies 5. Conclusion: Towards Right to Water. Bibilography and Webliography. Appendix A: General Comment 15. Appendix B: India’s National Water Policy – 1987. Appendix C: India’s National Water Policy – 2002. Appendix D: India’s National Water Policy - 2012