Rural Infrastructure : Sanitation, Housing, Healthcare Book
Contents: Preface. Contributors. I. Rural Sanitation: 1. Sanitation and health/Shipra Saxena and Anjal Prakash. 2. Rural sanitation policies and strategies/N.V. Madhuri and P.C. Sikligar. 3. Rural sanitation: perspectives/Archana Sinha. 4. Rural sanitation: future policies, programmes and strategies/S. Poonuraj. 5. Sanitation: the unfinished agenda/D.K. Ghose. 6. Drinking water and sanitation/V.K. Duggal. 7. Rural water, sanitation: challenges ahead/D.K. Ghose. 8. Rural water sanitation: role of decentralisation/Indrani De. II. Rural housing: 9. "Indira Awas Yojana under Bharat Nirman" Ray of Hope to shelterless poor/Annapurna Jha. 10. Rural housing: emphasis on demand driven dimension/V. Madhava Rao and Sreedhar Seetharan. 11. Schemes on rural housing/Avtar Singh Sahota. 12. Panchayati Raj Institutions and rural housing/Mahi Pal. 13. Innovative technologies in rural housing/S.K. Negi. 14. Planning of earthquake resistant rural houses/Ashok Kumar. 15. Planning of cyclone resistant rural houses/R.K. Garg. 16. Greenhouse for rural development/Jayanarayan Mishra and Jagadish Chandra Paul. 17. Housing for rural poor/Mohinder Singh. 18. Rural housing: an overview/S. Vijaya Kumar and M. Venkataramana. 19. Rural housing: agenda for future action/Chandra Dutt. 20. National Housing Policy/Pankaj Jain. III. Rural health care: 21. Healthcare for all/Akshya K. Panda. 22. National Rural Health Mission/Shubhra Singh. 23. National Rural Health Mission/Rabindra Nath Ojha. 24. Universal Health Insurance Scheme/Rajeev Ahuja. 25. Community Health Insurance: Its relevance in India/N. Devadasan. 26. Micro Health Insurance Models: lessons learnt and way forward/Akash Acharva. 27. Quality healthcare for rural people/V. Mohan Rao. 28. Rural health facilities/V. Mohan Rao. 29. Partnerships and networking for health development: initiatives, successes and challenges/P. Durga Prasad and N.V. Madhuri. 30. Community participation Panchayati Raj and rural health care/B.K. Pattanaik. 31. Health care during the Tenth Plan/Prema Ramchandran. 32. Financing of health services in India under Five Year Plans/Uma H.R. 33. Health care services in rural India: status and challenges/S. Srinivasan. 34. Primary health care in disadvantaged areas/Sanjay Sangole. 35. HIV/AIDS in India/Sandeep Berwal. 36. National AIDS Control Programme in India/S.B. Verma. 37. Combating AIDS/Avtar Singh. 38. HIV/AIDS: The social dimension: emphasis to women and girls/Satyanarayana Pattnaik and Lipi Puspa Panda. 39. Migration, trafficking and HIV/AIDS/Aparna Srivastava. 40. Fluoride scenario: some preventive steps/Kaman Singh. 41. Health care at low cost: the JSS Experience/The JSS Team. 42. Appropriate technology for low-cost health care/The JSS Team. 43. Jan Swasthya Abhiyan/Abhay Shukla. 44. Pranayam: the cure for all maladies/Rajendra Roy. 45. Effective health information system for efficient health care delivery/N. Swaminathan and J.H. Ranjit Kumar. 46. TEA: A best health drink/M.K. Rana. 47. Rural health services in India Under Eleventh Plan/Rajesh Sagar and Jugal Kishor.
"The infrastructure is the catalyst in economic development and sustain growth G.D.P. and human existence. Infrastructure bottlenecks act as a serious drag on the progress of the nation like India.
Sanitation is a package of health related measures. It denotes the methods of disposal of human waste as well as liquid and solid waste including matter originating from food and hygiene. Inadequate sanitation impacts the local economy by adversely affecting the productivity loss due to sickness and the overall quality of life.
Housing is an integral part of the human sustenance and development. It needs special provisions for providing support facilities for the occupational groups rural infrastructure, sanitation, housing, health care. To meet the housing needs of rural people, Ministry of Rural Development initiated scheme, such as, minimum needs programme, Indira Awas Yojana and Jawahar Rozgar Yojana under ‘Bharat Nirman’ and rural development.
The health of a nation is a sum total of the health of its citizen and communities. There is a considerable challenge for optimizing the existing rural health infrastructure throughout the country. Considering the potentiality of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), it is proposed that the health infrastructure in rural areas be made accountable to different tiers of PRIs at their respective levels." (jacket)