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Background of The Site of Case Study: Beed District, Marathwada Region, Maharashtra

The document provides background information on Beed district in Maharashtra, India which has been selected as a case study site. Beed district is located in the Marathwada region which experiences frequent droughts. Marathwada has a population of over 18 million people spread across 8 districts, with Beed being one of the worst affected by drought. As of 2019, 6 of the 9 major dams supplying water to the region were facing shortages. Beed has a population of over 2.5 million people and agriculture is the main occupation, with sugarcane cultivation being a primary cause of water shortages. Perennial drought in Beed has resulted in unemployment, poverty, and impacts social indicators like health, education

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Background of The Site of Case Study: Beed District, Marathwada Region, Maharashtra

The document provides background information on Beed district in Maharashtra, India which has been selected as a case study site. Beed district is located in the Marathwada region which experiences frequent droughts. Marathwada has a population of over 18 million people spread across 8 districts, with Beed being one of the worst affected by drought. As of 2019, 6 of the 9 major dams supplying water to the region were facing shortages. Beed has a population of over 2.5 million people and agriculture is the main occupation, with sugarcane cultivation being a primary cause of water shortages. Perennial drought in Beed has resulted in unemployment, poverty, and impacts social indicators like health, education

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BACKGROUND OF THE SITE OF CASE STUDY: BEED DISTRICT,

MARATHWADA REGION, MAHARASHTRA

Marathwada region falls under the scanty rainfall area of Central Maharashtra. As per the
Census of 2011, Marathwada has a population of 1,87,31,872 people spread over an area of
64,590 sq.km. It includes districts of Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Nanded, Latur,
Parbhani and Hingoli. Marathwada is characterized as a frequent drought prone area. Out of the
8 districts, 5 are the worst affected: Beed, Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded and Osmanabad. The region
receives rainfall from the South West monsoon winds of the Arabian Sea Branch. As per the
records of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) the worst affected districts of
Marathwada are Beed, Aurangabad and Jalna. Marathwada is a land locked region. The entire
region is drained by the Godavari River and its tributaries such as Purna, Shivna, Dudhna,
Vedganga, Sindhphana and Bindusara. Except Godavari, no other river is perennial. Major dams
in the Godavari basin are Bhandara in Ahmednagar, Jayakevedi Stage 1 in Aurangabad, Upper
Dudhna in Jalna and Bendusara in Beed. As of October 2019, as many as 6 out of 9 major dams
that supply water to urban and rural area of the Marathwada region continue to face shortage, as
per the data released by the irrigation department of the state.

Of the 8 districts in the Marathwada region, Beed district has been chosen as the policy study
site. As per the census of 2011, Beed has a total population of 25,85,965. Agriculture is the main
occupation of Beed and the district also has a high density of workers specialised as sugarcane
cutters. Water expert Pradeep Purandare said that excess use of water for sugarcane cultivation
has always been the primary cause for the shortage every year. However, this time around, it is
the scanty rainfall that has kept most of the dams dry. It is one of India’s backward districts.
Irrigation facilities are poor and they are not likely to improve in the near future. Crops like
sorghum and cotton, which can be cultivated with less water, are grown here. The region is
ridden with poverty and illiteracy thereby follows in. Perennial drought has resulted in
unemployment, shortage of food and water, resulting into endemic poverty. People in Beed are
caught in a vicious cycle of debt-poverty-illiteracy. This vicious cycle adversely affects all social
indicators- health, infant mortality, education and violence against women.

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