Agenda for North-East India/edited by B. Datta Ray. New Delhi, Concept Pub., 2002, xiv, 185 p., tables, $17. ISBN 81-7022-938-3.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Policies of food security: an agenda for change/Madhura Swaminathan. 2. Globalization-yet another threat to food security and regional parity in India/Ashok Kumar Maiti and Subhendu Chakrabarti. 3. Food security and agricultural growth: prospects for the North-Eastern region/M.P. Bezbaruah. 4. Food insecurity in India with special reference to North Eastern region/P.M. Passah. 5. Food security of North East India for twenty-first century/S.N. Goswami, B.K. Sarma and S.B. Singh. 6. Agriculture should get high priority in the North-East/V.S. Mahajan. 7. Determinants of production and instability of rice in North Eastern states of India/S.B. Singh, K.K. Datta and Kh. B. Singh. 8. The 21 century and the emerging scenario and issues of social science research in North-East India/K. Alam. 9. Some issues of social science research in North-East India in the 21 century/S.B. Chakrabarti. 10. Social science research in the N.E. region in the 21 century/B.B. Kumar. 11. Identifying researchable issues for 21 century N. E. India/Biman Kar. 12. The North-East and future trends/K.S. Singh. 13. Adult education and rural development/Meghali Baruah. 14. Enhancing teaching and learnings integrated systems analysis/A.S. Guha. 15. Health and nutritional status of the people of North-Eastern region/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 16. Tribal population of the Brahmaputra Valley under changing socio-political situation/N.N. Bhattacharyya. 17. Judicial intervention in the management of forests in the North East India/S.K. Agnihotri. 18. Civil society and the politics of peace-making in North-Eastern India/Samir Kumar Das. 19. North-East India in the 21 century (with special reference to Nagaland)Sukhendu Mazumder. 20. Human rights with special reference to Nagalim/Zavier P. Mao. 21. Regional disparities in economic development: an inter-district empirical study of Arunachal Pradesh/Amitava Mitra. 22. Elderly population of Tripura/Paramita Saha. 23. Housing problems and policies of Assam: an introspection/Mouchumi Gogoi and Kamelash Kalita. 24. Demand for housing in urban area-Gauhati/K. Bez. Index.
"North East India with its large untapped hydel power, mineral resources, virgin forests, sturdy people and vast water resources remain in the backyard of development. In the twenty-first century the crucial challenge facing North East India is how to achieve a balance between economy and ecology in order to ensure sustainable social and economic development preserving the basic cultural matrix, ethical values and equalitarian ethos. This calls for a truly democratic society that seeks to achieve economic efficiency and ecological harmony for the eradication of poverty and promotion of total human welfare. It is being increasingly realized that the pluralistic society has a significant role to play in counterbalancing the tendency to state absolutism. These are some of the crucial areas of social science research to which the papers included in this volume are directed. Research and analysis of population, environment, land, food and food security are issues of vital interest of the problem of qualitative demographic development. For this we need the formulation of the appropriate development paradigm of North East India. The papers included in this volume depict the emerging social milieu of North East India and suggest areas of research for the promotion of the welfare of the people in a strategically vital area, known as North East India." (jacket)