Employment and Poverty Alleviation Programmes in India : An Appraisal (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I. Macro Level Studies with National Perspectives: 1. Introduction/K.K. Bagchi. 2. Special employment and poverty alleviation programmes in India/S.K. Lal, Abhishek Srivastava and Padam Narayan Singh. 3. Policies and programmes for employment in India/Deepali Pant Joshi. 4. Problems and policies of employment in India/S.K. Dhage. 5. A critical review of the rural unemployment problem and evaluation of employment generation programmes in India/Ankita Gupta. 6. Special employment guarantee and poverty alleviation programmes/Gogna Anita. 7. Policies and programmes of employment in India: a Kaleidoscopic view/K. Kamar Jahan and K. Vijayarani. 8. Employment generation in India: approaches and experience/T. Raghu and M. Arulmaran. 9. An analysis of the special employment and poverty alleviation programmes in India/Sneh Lata Srivastava. 10. Poverty alleviation programmes in India: a critical appraisal/Banarshi Yadav. 11. Special employment and poverty alleviation programmes in India/Kumud Bhagawati. 12. Poverty reduction strategies in India/K.A. Rasure. 13. The unemployment scenario of India and the policy for a better employment/Birendra Nath Konar. 14. Employment planning in India: approaches and experience/T.R. Kundu and Hemlata Sharma. 15. Unemployment in India and opportunities to remove the situation/K.S.S. Uduman Mohideen and K. Ramachandran. 16. Employment strategy for India: realities and challenges/I.D. Gupta. 17. Employment generation in India and policy implication/Rashmi Akhoury. 18. Policies and programmes for rural employment in India/V. Arivazhagan. 19. An economic analysis of status of poverty and poverty alleviation programmes in India/R. Balasubrahmaniyan. 20. Rural employment programmes: challenges and options/Prasant Kumar Panda. 21. The trends of employment theories and policies in India/S.V. Sowani. 22. Employment perspective in India/S. Natchathira Jothi. 23. Issues in employment programmes/S.V. Hariharan and S. Vigneswaran. 24. Special employment and poverty alleviation programmes in India/Apurba Kumar Medhi. 25. Effects of globalisation on employment and poverty alleviation in India: role of various agencies in poverty alleviation/Yogendra Nath Mann. 26. Self-employment: a possible solution of unemployment/Himanshu N. Desai. 27. Globalisation and child labour: problems and eradication/Nisha Srivastava and Vineeta Singh. 28. Skill acquisition and employment opportunities in emerging markets/Ashwini Kant Jha, Bhavna Jha and Hemant Kumar. 29. A vicious circle of poverty, unemployment, consanguinity and infant mortality/A. Gunasekaran and D.B. Usha Rani. 30. Urban employment and poverty alleviation programmes: a case study of Belgaum City Porporation/Anand D. Mulgund and Prashantrao M. Yadwad.

Vol. II. Micro Level Studies with Regional and Other Perspectives: 1. Pattern of employment in Orissa/Bijaya Kumar Panda and Prasant Sarangi. 2. Impact of globalization on rural employment pattern: evidence from Madhya Pradesh/K.K. Shrivastava and Padma Saxena. 3. Magnitude and determinants of rural non-farm employment in Punjab/S.S. Dhiliwal and S.S. Chahal. 4. Migration and unemployment: a study of Mahaboobnagar District in Andhra Pradesh/B.V. Raghavendar, K. Mahendra Kumar and B.S. Rao. 5. Employment and unemployment in West Bengal\'s agriculture/Pranab Kumar Chatterjee and Arun Kumar Nandi. 6. Swarna Jayanthi Swarozgar Yojana: an integrated approach to poverty alleviation/Chaya Degaonkar. 7. Development of social infrastructure and wage employment generation under EAS and JGSY: a study of differentials in Jammu and Kashmir/Prakash C. Antahal. 8. Tackling rural unemployment: a micro level study in Koraput District of Orissa/B. Eswar Rao Patnaik. 9. Performance of special component plan in Tamil Nadu/S. Ramachandran, K. Narayanan and E. Kanagaraj. 10. Employment generation of educated unemployed youth in India: a case study of PMRY/M. Devarajulu and G. Savaraiah. 11. Wage employment programmes in India with special reference to Jawahar Rojgar Yojana/C. Chitra. 12. Eradicating rural poverty: a case study of Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu/M. Pandiyan. 13. Impact of economic reforms on employment in SSI sector of Marathwada region--an analysis/A.B. Deogirikar. 14. Dairying--a vital source of economic empowerment of rural India: challenges and remedies/B. Hymavathi. 15. Policies and programmes and changing employment opportunities for women in school education--a case study of Andhra Pradesh/D. Pulla Rao. 16. Women and employment initiatives in Orissa/Sandha Rani Das. 17. Women and poverty alleviation programmes: an overview of Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY)/Suman Jain. 18. Gender, employment and empowerment in India/C. Muthuraja. 19. Role of women Self Help Groups in rural poverty alleviation with special reference to Namakkal District of Tamil Nadu/D. Kumar and A. Shanmugasundaram. 20. Issues on the employability of the aged/A. Gunasekaran and R. Sumathi. 21. Policies and programmes for employment in India/Hemlata Joshi. 22. Employment Guarantee Act/Chinmayee Chaturvedi. 23. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: issues and challenges/Himanshu Sekar Rout. 24. The new Employment Guarantee Scheme--a radical deal for India\'s poor/A.P. Pandey. 25. National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in India and role of Panchayati Raj Institutions/A. Hadi. 26. Performance of employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra/R.S. Solunke and G.B. Gawande.

"This edited book contains 28 articles in Vol. 1 and 26 articles in Vol. II written by young as well as experienced researchers. The papers critically discuss the policies and programmes for employment in India including the recently introduced National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. The papers are either on evaluation of employment programmes and policies in India or state or region specific micro-level studies. The papers deal with various aspects of employment programmes in India like identification of causes of low level of implementation and suggestion for effective implementation. One of the notable aspects of these papers is that most of the papers have suggested alternative ways of generating more employment and solving the problem of unemployment. It is hoped that the papers will stimulate further research in the area and will help the planners and administrators to undertake more pragmatic policies." (jacket)