Dr. Y.V.R. Reddy, Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics) and Head, Division of Design and Analysis at CRIDA. He has been working on watersheds since 1983-84. He published more than 300 papers in national and international journals and proceedings of seminars etc. He has 33 years experience. He is Principal Investigator on socio-economic evaluation of watershed development programme in India which is basis for this project.