Consequences of Demographic Transition in India/edited by Rajib Lochan Panigrahy. New Delhi, Discovery Pub., 2006, xii, 100 p., tables, ISBN 81-8356-097-0.

    Contents: Preface. Acknowledgement. List of contributors. 1. Impediments on the progress of tribal education/S.K. Misra. 2. Child labour: a curse/Surendranath Panda and Snehalata Acharya. 3. Backward classes and social change/Dasarathi Bhuyan. 4. Education and training for HRD in India/Rajib Lochan Panigrahy. 5. Alternative path to demographic transition/Uma Sankar Das. 6. Population problems in India/Simanchal Maharana and R.L. Panigrahy. 7. Population and moral degradation/Balakrishna Padhi and Premananda Pradhan. 8. Indian human rights commission: a juncture/Dasarathi Bhuyan. 9. Population and impact of women health: (a study of Ganjam District)/P.K. Patnaik. 10. Problems of agricultural labour: (a study of Ganjam District)/Santosh Kumar Pradhan. 11. Few burning problems of population in India/R.L. Panigrahy and L.N. Panda. Index.

    "This book contains 11 articles on different aspects of population problems and its remedial measures of India. It reveals the problems population on account of child labour, backward communities, health and family welfare, tribes, moral degradation, agricultural labour, women studies with the measures of their development and contraceptives also with the participation of NGOs which rendered greater social service even in emergencies taking challenging steps as remedies to check the social problems what any govt. can not. The authors are eminent writers of socio-economic topics with the profession of teaching, advocacy, NGO." (jacket)

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