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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2021, Volume : 9, Issue : 1
First page : (194) Last page : (198)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8557

Measurement of Level of Trust in Building Social Capital among Water Users Association through Analytical Hierarchy Process

M. Rajeshwaran^1*, K. Mahandrakumar² and K. Prabakaran^3
1Ph.D. Scholar, ²Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology,
³Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ramki.vnr@gmail.com
Received: 8.01.2021  |  Revised: 11.02.2021   |  Accepted: 16.02.2021 

 ABSTRACT

This study aims about constructing social capital through level of trust of the identified stakeholders in watershed context by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). It was introduced by Satty (1988), for decision making by constructing every complex elements involved in the process in Analytic hierarchy form. The measurement was done through pairwise comparison of the judgements of experts. The empirical findings indicate that among the four stakeholders, the WUA was assigned with the high level of trust followed by the facilitators of NGO, officials of NABARD, officials of DPAP.

Keywords: Level of trust, WUA (Water Users Association) and Pairwise comparison.

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Cite this article: Rajeshwaran, M., Mahandrakumar, K., & Prabakaran, K., (2021). Measurement of Level of Trust in Building Social Capital among Water Users Association through Analytical Hierarchy Process, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 9(1), 194-198. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8557