Rural Development in India Book
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Rural Development Programme: Some Strategies for Ensuring Effectiveness/D.P. Singh. 2. Social Work Responses to Empowerment needs of developing societies/Mukul Srivastava. 3. Politics in Development/Tathagata Datta. 4. Women empowerment and Panchayati raj institutions: Myth and reality/Bir Pal Singh. 5. Social consequences of land reforms: An experience of Darjeeling Hills/Swatahsiddha Sarkar. 6. Democratic Dynamics and Social change-Evidence from the field/C.D. Adhikary and Munmun Moghanty. 7. Seeds of change: The Green Revolution and Social and Spatial Inequality in India/Sibabrata Das. 8. Historical Perspectives of Panchayati Raj in India: An overview/Trilochan Dash. 9. Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on rural India/Rajiv Navan. 10. Rural Development in 21st Century/Manish Kumar. 11. Role of NGOs in Rural Development/Manish Dwivedi. 12. Cooperatives and Its Impact on rural development/Bishnu Mohan Dash. 13. Tribal Development in Rural India: Issues and concerns/Tapas Kumar Sarangi. 14. Participatory Planning and Action for Rural Development/Santi Swarup Misra. 15. Approaches and Strategies of Rural Development During India’s Five Year Plans: Strategies for the Future/Sanjoy Roy. 16. Approaches to Rural Development/Manish Kumar. 17. NREGA: Opportunities and Challenges/Gulshan Kumar. 18. Fight Against Rural Poverty: Review of Programames/Shweta Varshney. 19. Facets of Rural Development: Some Important Issues/Ravindra Singh. 20. Financial Institutions and Microfinance : A Step Towards Rural Development and Empowerment of women/Parna Chakraborty. Index.
This book presents a critical analysis on the important core issues on rural development. It contains twenty chapters contributed by Educators and Researchers belonging to different disciplines. It covers a wide range of issues concerning rural development such as Land Reforms, Green Revolution, Micro Finance and Cooperatives, Panchayatiraj and the empowerment of Weaker Sections, Participatory Planning and Action, NREGA, Poverty Alleviation Programmes, Role of Non Governmental Organizations and Impact of Global Economic Crisis etc. It is hoped that the present book Rural Developments n India will help the readers to comprehend better the issues involved in the process of rural development. It will also meet the specific requirements of academicians, researchers in various fields of social sciences. The book will be particularly useful for the students of Social Work, Rural Development and Sociology at Undergraduate and post graduate level.