New Economic Policies and Employment Opportunities in India Book

Contents: Preface. 1. Economic reforms employment generation and inclusive growth in India/R.B. Singh and Ajay Kumar. 2. Economic reforms and structural changes in employment in India/B.S. Yadav and Meena. 3. Reflections on employment in Indian Five Year Plans/Kamal Vir Tyagi. 4. Unemployment in India : aftermath of economic reforms and inclusive growth/Surender Mor and Madanpal. 5. New economic policy and its implications for employment in India/Kiran Mor. 6. Panchayati Raj : challenges ahead (a case study of Women Gram Pradhans in Uttarakhand)/Anjali Bahuguna and Poonam Dhasmana. 7. Unemployment : issues and challenges in India/Saroj Yadav. 8. The role of MNREGA in generation of rural employment : a case study of Varanasi district/Atvir Singh. 9. Impact of the MNREGA on rural poverty in Haryana/Naresh Kumar and Kuldeep Singh. 10. Home-based economic activities : alternative sources of job avenues/Daljit Singh. 11. A critical analysis of MNREGA/Vineeta Sharma. 12. Unemployment : challenge to growth of developing India/Tanu Varshney and Rajeev Yeshwardhan. 13. Role of MNREGA in employment generation in rural areas–a case study of distt. Mahamaya Nagar/Nitu Saini and A.K. Tomar. 14. Employment growth in Indian IT industry – a case study of software and related services sector/Asheref Illiyan. 15. An evaluating study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 and its impact on economic development with special reference to Uttar Pradesh/Rajat Kumar Sant. 16. Employment generation : programmes and policies in India/Usha Sharma and Asmita Srivastava. 17. Labour intensity and employment potential of sport goods industry in India/Kanchan Rani and Alpna Garg. 18. Causes of unemployment in India and suggestive measures to reduce unemployment/Surat Singh. 19. Role of different policies for employment generation/Veena Upodhyay and Rajiv Yashvardhan. 20. Structure and nature of un-organised unemployment in India/Monika Mittal. 21. Employment perspective for India post reform experience/Abhishek Jain, Priya Jain and Swati Jain. 22. Economic reforms : ushering a new era of employment augmentation/Sachi Rana, Sarika Tripath and Sonal Gupta. 23. Policies and programmers to reduce unemployment in India/Archana Singhal. 24. Economic reforms as vital source of employment growth in India/Surabhi Saxena. 25. Impact of economic recession on unemployment in India/Piyush Kumar and Mayank Jain. 26. Impact of globalization and economic reforms on employment in India/Manzoor Alam and Md. Masroor Alam. 27. Impact of economic reforms on generation of employment opportunities in India/Lata S.P. Singh. 28. Unemployment trends in India/Neha Lohit and Virendra Singh. 29. Role of special economic zones in inclusive growth and employment generation/Surender Singh. 30. Impact of economic reforms on employment generation/Aakash Kumar Goel. 31. Unemployment – old wine in new bottle/Neena Chhokra and Anju Garg. 32. Employment generation through economic reforms/Rahul Sirohi and Sarika Tripathi. 33. MNREGA and employment generation (a case study of Aligarh and Firozabad district of U.P.)/Shobha Jain. 34. MNREGA – facilitating rural development and national integration/Sanjay Kumar, C.S. Negi and Noor Hasan. 35. Natural and causes of unemployment in India/Parul Singh Yadav. 36. Economic reforms and employment scenario in India – an overview/Subhash Anand and Tejvinder Kaur. 37. Indian poverty scenario : a compelling challenge/B.B. Mansuri. 38. Various causes of rural and urban unemployment in India/Shailendra Kumar Singh and Sudha Upadhyaya. 39. Condition of working women in present era/Archana Ranil and Jyoti Kumari. 40. Idea about improving employment strategies in India/Sunita Gaur and K.C. Gaur. 41. Impact of economic reforms on generation of employment/Abdul Rehman and Anchal Yadav. 42. Impact of global recession on sustainable development/Kuldeep Singh. 43. Economic reforms and employment generation in India/Asmita Srivastava.

In India, unemployment is a chronic problem. It is as acute as it is wide-spread. It has become a pressing and a perennial problem of Indian economy. In Indian planning, employment generation and social protection of labour have been given due importance from 1950s to mid 1980s. The initiation of mild dose of liberalization started since 1985 and the new economic reforms introduced in 1991 have pushed the economy towards globalization, privatization, liberalization and marketization intending to achieve high growth rate and thereby solving the problems of unemployment and poverty.

The basic theme of the book is to examine the impact of economic reforms on generation of employment opportunities in India. The main focus of the analysis presented in the different paper is on the changing issues and dimensions of unemployment and employment in India, nature and causes of unemployment in India, structure of employment in India, governmental role to generate employment opportunities and alternative model of development for stimulating growth of employment. Thus, the book provides a detailed and effective analysis of the pattern of employment opportunities and model of development for stimulating growth and employment generation in Indian economy.

The book will be useful not only for those who are interested in the study and understanding of unemployment and under-employment but also the perspectives provided may be of paramount significance and immense help to the students, teachers, researchers, policy-makers, professionals, experts and planners. (jacket)