India's Development Scenario : Challenges and Prospects
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. I. Review of India's development policy and strategy in the preceding decades: 2. Governance and development: initiatives from below/G. Palanithurai. 3. Economic reforms, growth and regional divergence in India/Madhusudan Ghosh. 4. Inter-state variations in levels of economic development: a sectoral and temporal study/Ajit Kumar Singh. 5. Impact of foreign aid on social sector: the Indian case/Jyotish Prakash Basu. 6. Growth and development linkages in Madhya Pradesh/D.C. Sah and Alok R. Chaurasia. 7. Issues in socio-economic development of backward states with special reference to Orissa/Basanta K. Sahu. II. Policies, strategies and programmes for basic amenities: 8. Universalization of education through adult literacy programmes: some empirical evidences/S.K. Pant. 9. Land degradation and poverty in India: evidence and policy implications/Amita Shah. 10. Paradox of hunger/Shilp Shikha Singh. 11. Nutrition deprivation at household level: evidences from a national survey/Rudra Narayan Mishra. 12. Employment generation potential in the organized retail sector in urban areas/Seema Joshi. 13. The strategy of zoning amidst resource degradation/William Joe. III. Decentralized governance and responsive administration: 14. Evolution of Panchayat Raj in India: an analysis of development from independence to post-73 amendment scenario/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. 15. Panchayats: relevance, potentials and demonstrations/G. Palanithurai. IV. Development and issues of trade, agriculture, industry and environment: 16. India's development and its trade dynamics with SAARC/Ganesh Kawadia and Gunjan Malhotra. 17. Indian agriculture at the crossroads: challenges and prospects/Yogesh Bandhu Arya. 18. The problem of industrial displacement in Jharkhand: a case study of Bokaro Steel Plant/Binod Narayan. 19. Patterns of development and environment quality in Gujarat/Hansa Jain.
"India after sixty years of independence has witnessed many achievements and simultaneously encountered many nagging problems. We can boast of our performance in some specific areas like self-sufficiency in foodgrains, structuring of strong industrial base, raising expectancy of life and higher percentage of literacy. On the negative side, we can count the perennial problems of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty accentuated by an ever-increasing population with inadequate infrastructure.
This volume is an attempt to identify, document and comprehend the broad trends in development emanating across the states. It is important to understand and analyze the process and direction of pace and pattern of the development, which would have a significant impact and could draw critical lessons for charting out the future course of action for effective people-centric development across the country.
Besides a crisp introduction by the editor, the book is thematically divided in four parts, viz., review of India's development policy and strategy in the preceding decades; policies, strategies and programmes for basic amenities; decentralized governance and responsive administration; and development and issues of trade, agriculture, industry and environment. The book promises to be a valuable reference for all concerned researchers, bureaucrats, policy makers, planners and those concerned with the development of India." (jacket)
