Economic Reform and Vision of North-East India
Contents: Preface. I. Macro Aspects: 1. Introduction/Amalesh Banerjee. 2. Development of Eastern India/Anupam Gupta. 3. Impact of Mahalanobis strategy on labour use in West Bengal agriculture: a spatial and temporal analysis/Tapati Sanyal. 4. Economic reform and the eastern and north-eastern states/Amalesh Banerjee. 5. Sixth Schedule and working of the district councils in north-eastern states: an appraisal/R.N. Prasad. II. Agriculture and food security: 6. Growth and diversification of agriculture in Bihar/Ram Bharat Thakur. 7. Need to reform the agricultural sector of Bihar in global era/Baij Nath Singh. 8. Demand-supply analysis of food security in rural Orissa/Raj Kishore Panda. 9. Problems of poverty and food insecurity in KBK districts of Orissa/S.N. Tripathy. 10. Growth of agricultural sector in Eastern India since 1980s/Prankrishna Pal. 11. Agricultural credit and indebtedness in Bihar: some issues/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 12. Rural indebtedness in North-East India in the post-liberalization period/Apurba Kumar Redhi. III. Industry: 13. Agri-industries and the north-east economy: problems and prospects/A.K. Agarwal. 14. Industrial development in Arunachal Pradesh: problems and prospects/R.P. Bhattacharjee. 15. Industrialisation in Arunachal Pradesh/Salam Ibamacha. 16. 150 years of "Cachar Tea": a healthy sector turned sick/Alok Sen. 17. Problems and prospects of tea industry in Assam/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 18. Prospect of eco-tourism in the north-east/Sukhendu Mazumder. 19. Financial reforms and the progress of East India Economy/Pranay Kr. Roy Barman. IV. Demography: 20. Human resource and its status in North-East India/Keya Sengupta. 21. Population growth in Assam/Prabin Baishya. 22. Economic development and demographic transition in Aunachal Pradesh/N.C. Roy. 23. Demographic variables of Arunachal Pradesh and its policy implications/Manish Sharma. 24. Socio-economic profile of the Kuki Hill tribes in Loharbund/Swarupa Kar, Ruma Paul, Devashish Kar. V. Panchayati Raj and woman empowerment: 25. Panchayati Raj Institutions in West Bengal: cases of effectiveness and limitations/Dilip Kumar Ghosh. 26. Rural women entrepreneurs: the case of Kokrajhar District/Sujata Bhadra. 27. Empowerment of women and Panchayati Raj/Umesh Prasad and Archana Kumari. 28. Empowering rural women through micro enterprise development: a case study of Bihar/Manoj Kumar Singh. VI. Vision of North-East: 29. North-east vision 2020 and millennium development goals/Amalesh Banerjee. 30. Vision of Nagaland, 2020/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 31. Mizoram marching towards progress: some observations/Shankar Chatterjee. 32. South Assam: a study in geo-political perspective/Purnendu Kumar. Index.
"East India economy is an amalgam of the economies of advance state like West Bengal and the backward states like Bihar, Orissa and Assam. The north-east tribal states are under the sixth schedule of the constitution but are not extraordinary in terms of progress which they should have been. Food insecurity and supply-side bottlenecks in Orissa, agricultural stagnation in Bihar, Assam and some other states are examined. Along with the sick tea industry of Assam, the new dimension of industrial progress in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura are certain fields of upcoming research which are included in the volume. Sustainable high rate of growth of West Bengal economy and the financial repression are also important issues of study. Compared to other regions, the east zone economies is, on average, marching ahead only slowly.
The implicit classification of the researches are such:
Section-I deals with the macro aspects of planning models growth and the character of the civil society.
Section-II attempts to make an incisive analysis of the food security of Orissa and the agricultural progress of Bihar and other states.
Section-III presents the industrial progress in eastern states and the financial repression of the east zone economy.
Section-IV gives the demographic transition of the region.
Section-V upholds the land mark progress of democratic decentralization of West Bengal and the women empowerment in several other states.
Section-VI opens up the vision of north-east.
The east zone economy thus provides the present state of the economic conditions of the region--its reform attempt, instability, stability and its advance to new directions and Sectoral transformation." (jacket)
