About the authors & Team members

About the Authors

Sanjay Gupta is a post-graduate in Physics from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) and Law graduate from University of Delhi. He is an Indian Forest Service officer from the 1987 batch. He worked as Special Commissioner (Irrigation and CAD) during 2005 to 2010 and has led a team of professionals to implement participatory irrigation management and water sector reforms. He has been working in the field of natural resource management for more than two decades.
 

Anne Chappuis holds a doctorate in Geography from University of Rouen, France, and M.Phil in demography from University of Paris-Sorbonne. She is a freelance consultant with experience of more than thirty years in Bertin’s Semiology of Graphics for visual presentation, spatial analysis and Geo-Graphical Management Information Systems (GMIS). She teaches visual data analysis at the University of Rouen and is founder member secretary of VIStA (Visual Information Systems for Action), a Hyderabad-based NGO, that believes that information is the most important asset in the path to development. 
chappuis.anne@gmail.com

Satya Prakash Tucker is a Law graduate from University of Delhi. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1981 batch. He held the post of Principal Secretary (Irrigation) from 2004 to 2010. He conceptualised and led the water reform agenda based on the concept of community-based self-management and that water should be managed as a public trust instead of an individually-owned private commodity. He has experience of more than three decades in developmental planning and has many innovative approaches to his credit.

Team members

A. Sailaja is M.Tech (Remote Sensing) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and presently working as Assistant Executive Engineer in the office of the Commissioner, Command Area Development (CAD), Irrigation and Command Area Development Department (I&CAD), Government of A.P. She has experience in creating digital database and analysing it for link to the digital thematic layers. She supplemented river basin maps, district maps, flood affected villages and railway-affecting tanks to help decision makers to route the flood water safely without affecting the rail and road network. She also mapped the rain and river gauge stations.

B. Swapna is M.Tech in GIS and Remote Sensing from Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University, Hyderabad with varied experience in data management and GIS software in government based-organisations. She specialises in data analysis and visual presentation. She initiated the work on project boundaries and later automatised the process of creation of maps on the performance of irrigation projects at various hierarchies from the raw data. This automated output assists the farmers’ organisations in evaluating their performance and help arrive at points of action for the following season.
 

G.M.V.G.K Bangaru Raju has AMIE degree in Civil Engineering and more than ten years of experience in GIS platforms and data management. He cleaned the data and used it for the preparation of the basic layers like contours, synthesised the data based on the administrative boundaries to the natural boundaries. He used these basic maps to prepare the physiography maps and basin-wise analysis.
 

Gopi Kethari is M.Tech., in Civil Engineering (Specialized in Environmental & Water Resources Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has worked as Assistant Executive Engineer in O/o Commissioner CAD from 2006 to April, 2011. He compiled the basin wise water availability and utilization of water resources in A.P, prepared the flow diagrams of major and medium projects along three major rivers of A.P. He has carried out the irrigation surface water quality analysis of A.P.
 

G. Prasad Rao is MSc in Hydrology from Andhra University, working with Andhra Pradesh State Remote Sensing Application Centre for the last twenty years and presently holds the post of Senior Scientific Officer. He specialises in water resources and disaster management. He has carried out hydrological viability reassessment of minor irrigation tanks and has more than twenty scientific publications to his credit.
 

Haseena Banu is B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from C.B.I.T, Hyderabad and is presently working as Assistant Executive Engineer in the Office of the Commissioner CAD, Government of A.P. She prepared the Participatory Action Planning Maps, indicating performance of an irrigation project based on 12 performance indicators at various levels of hierarchy, and the Participatory Situation Analysis maps, with self-assessment of the farmers on their performance in administrative, water management and sustainability-related themes.
 

K. Umasri is B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada and presently working as Assistant Executive Engineer in the Office of the Commissioner CAD, Government of A.P. She supplemented river basin maps, prepared the flood flow maps of Krishna, Godavari and Pennar basins indicating the time estimated for the floods to flow from a reservoir to the next one with the historical data on highs and design discharge. She also plotted flood vulnerable villages based on the historical data related to the flood discharge quantities in the drainage system.
 

Luc de Golbéry is a retired associate professor of geography from Rouen university, Normandy, France. He specialised in information visualisation, cartography and rural development in India. During the last forty years he has supervised more than 80 research works on rural development, water related problems and on visualisation. He prepared the introductory chapter to present Andhra Pradesh in India.
 

Namratha Ambati is a graduate in Computer Science from Osmania University. She provided the final touches to all the maps by fine tuning them and transferring them from the GIS platform to the Adobe Illustrator. She also improved the presentation of various maps, particularly the river flow line diagrams.
 

Nirbhay Sen is MSc in Environment Science from the Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environmental Education and Research, Pune. He assisted with the statistical analysis and redrawing certain maps.  He is currently a Director at Graphical Monitoring & Information Systems Consultants Pvt Ltd.
 

P. Surekha is B.Tech (Civil Engineering) from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada and presently working as Assistant Executive Engineer in the office of the Commissioner CAD, Government of A.P. She prepared maps relating to project administrative hierarchy, both for farmers’ organisations and the Irrigation Department, on the basis of Notification I and II of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. She also prepared the project-wise canal network maps in coordination with the Andhra Pradesh Remote Sensing Application Centre. She coordinated the web-based Reservoir Storage Monitoring System and Canal Network Flow Monitoring System.
 

An effort of this nature spans over years and involves contribution from a large number of associates in different capacity. Due to the limitation of human memory it may not be possible to recall all the contributions. The contributions from A. Janardhan Rao, A.G.P. Guruprasad Rao, Amit Goel, Paramita Sen, Louise Lemarié, Leslie Laborde and G. Mohana are acknowledged. We are sure that our colleagues whose names are not included here will condone our unintentional amnesia.