Advancement of India : Attainments and Alternatives
Contents: Sustainable development: the Indian experience/R. Venkata Ravi and V. Narayana Reddy. I. Literacy and education: 1. Literacy and development: initiatives under tenth plan/M.C. Reddappa Reddy. 2. Literacy campaign for women: experience of Andhra Pradesh/B.S. Vasudeva Rao, M.V.S.S. Prakash Rao and P. Viswanath Gupta. 3. Elementary education in India: status and issues/D. Pulla Rao. 4. An alternative approach to tribal curriculum: anthropological analysis of \'KANAV\'/Bindu Ramachandran. 5. Internet and its impact on education/M. Chakraborty. 6. The perspective and paradoxes of tribal education: a case of Rajasthan/Seema Agrawal and Pankaj Agrawal. 7. Performance of preraks and community opinion: a study in Andhra Pradesh/G. Surendra. II. Rural development and extension: 8. Education and community building: role of NGOs/D. Uma Devi and P. Adinarayana Reddy. 9. Socio-economic conditions of traditional fishing households in Andhra Pradesh/S. Surapa Raju. 10. Community radio, reproductive and child health: experience of a backward district of Uttar Pradesh/B.P. Thaigarajan. 11. Grassroots organization and universities for rural development/R. Venkata Ravi and V. Narayana Reddy. III. Employment and social security: 12. Voluntary retirement scheme: problems and prospects/Martina R. Noroha. 13. Changing female workforce structure in Karnataka state: a study in post reforms situation/Talwar Sabanna. 14. Determinants of female agricultural wage: evidences from Andhra Pradesh/S. Venkata Narayana Reddy and K. Satya Narayana Reddy. 15. Two-way flow of family support: a study of pensioners in Mumbai/Aparajita Chattopadhyay and T.K. Roy. IV. Environmental management: 16. Natural disasters and strategies for mitigation in India/U.B. Singh and A.K. Singh. 17. People participation in environmental conservation: a case study from Tamil Nadu/A. Subbiah. 18. Surface irrigation and its determinants: a study in Andhra Pradesh/P. Venkata Ramana Reddy and K. Satya Narayana Reddy. V. Women empowerment: 19. Problems of women entrepreneurship in India/D. Pulla Rao. 20. Empowering tribal women: experience of Andhra Pradesh/L. Reddappa. 21. Globalization and women empowerment/D. Uma Devi and P. Adinarayana Reddy. 22. Empowering women through group approach: some issues/D. Sunder Raj and M. Venkataramana. VI. Development policies and issues: 23. Child development in India: some economic implications/P.N. Pandey. 24. Modernization and development/P.P. Satyanarayana Rao. 25. Social development and governance in India: indicators and challengers/J.S. Gunavathy. 26. Globalization versus polarization in India: emerging concerns/S.P. Gupta. 27. Production responses of groundnut crop in Andhra Pradesh/M. Usha Rani, K. Satyanarayana Reddy and K. Thulsai Naik. Index.
"Development is a subject matter, which continuously attracts interests of the academics, development professionals, administrators, non-governmental organizations and also donors. In our country, during the last five decades efforts have been made to improve the people through various strategies and development programmes. The experiments made also include shift in the approach, design of intervention and organizational framework to initiate the process of sustainable development and welfare activities in the society. Over a period of five decades, we have experimented and also learned in the field that enlightened us on many issues and concern. We have realized that, unless the capacity of the people is enhanced, they cannot absorb the development and its impact. In this process people are need to be enabled to have access and effective participation in development as well in welfare activities. Hence, the focus of the government and non-government efforts shifted towards the capacity building of people for sustainable development. Empowerment is a process focused on the capacity building of the people to initiates, sustain and own the developmental benefits. In this process, people are enabled to have access, participate and control decision of various aspects/activities of welfare as well as in development programmes. The process of empowerment includes economic, political, social and psychological aspects of human life. The present volume is a documentation of perspectives, reviews, findings of the studies related to the experience in development of our country. (jacket)
"Development is a subject matter, which continuously attracts interests of the academics, development professionals, administrators, non-governmental organizations and also donors. In our country, during the last five decades efforts have been made to improve the people through various strategies and development programmes. The experiments made also include shift in the approach, design of intervention and organizational framework to initiate the process of sustainable development and welfare activities in the society. Over a period of five decades, we have experimented and also learned in the field that enlightened us on many issues and concern. We have realized that, unless the capacity of the people is enhanced, they cannot absorb the development and its impact. In this process people are need to be enabled to have access and effective participation in development as well in welfare activities. Hence, the focus of the government and non-government efforts shifted towards the capacity building of people for sustainable development. Empowerment is a process focused on the capacity building of the people to initiates, sustain and own the developmental benefits. In this process, people are enabled to have access, participate and control decision of various aspects/activities of welfare as well as in development programmes. The process of empowerment includes economic, political, social and psychological aspects of human life. The present volume is a documentation of perspectives, reviews, findings of the studies related to the experience in development of our country. (jacket)
