Contents Acknowledgements. List of contributors. 1. Empowering rural India an overview/R. Venkata Ravi and D. Sunder Raj. I. Natural resources and rural communities 2. Community initiatives for protecting natural resources a case of Bishnois of Jodhpur district Rajasthan/P. Siva Ram. 3. Empowerment of women for water resource management experience of Uttar Pradesh/N.V. Madhuri. 4. Common property land resources and the rural poor experience of Tamil Nadu/A. Kannan M. Ravichandran and S. Boopathi. 5. Land ownership in scheduled areas a study in Andhra Pradesh/M. Arun Kumar. 6. Farmers suicides in Andhra Pradesh an issue of concern/K. Vijaya Kumar and S. Vanaja Rani. 7. Towards evolving a strategy for mitigating droughts/Sibranjan Misra. 8. Development through watershed a study in Ahmadnagar district/Anjali Kurane and Suresh Shelke. II. Empowering for participation 9. Role of non government organizations in rural development/S. Vijaya Kumar and M. Venkataramana. 10. People's planning programme experience of Kerala/L. Rathakrishnan. 11. Participatory rural development Andhra Pradesh model/D. Sunder Raj and Narayana Reddy. 12. Participatory democracy through Gram Sabha role of development agencies/Sitakanta Sethi. 13. Panchayat Raj system in India issues and concerns/R. Venkata Ravi. III. Women and empowerment 14. Women development some strategies and interventions/B. Suguna. 15. Group dynamics and women empowerment a review/D. Sunder Raj. 16. Women empowerment and higher education/D. Pulla Rao. IV. Rural non farm sector development 17. Rural non farm sector in India Gandhigram experiment/N. Lalitha. 18. Micro enterprises for alleviation of rural poverty experience of Tamil Nadu/S. Sundari. 19. Promotion of micro enterprises under SGSY experience of Jammu and Kashmir/Falendra K. Sudan. 20. Marketing practices and women entrepreneurs an empirical study/Anil Kumar. 21. Effect of income generation programmes on scheduled castes a micro study in west Godavari district/N. Sreerama Murthy and M.S. Partha Sarathi. V. Technology for rural development 22. Biomass and rural energy some issues/R. Kasturi Bai. 23. Beach landing craft scheme SWOT analysis/S. Surapa Raju. 24. Private extension a new strategy for rural transformation/O.P. Misra and A.K. Singh. 25. Organic farming for sustainable agriculture NGO's experiences/K. Gangadharam. Index. Rural development is a matter of interest for the academics development professionals administrators non governmental organizations and also donors. In India considerable efforts have been made in the form of various strategies and through programmes for the sustainable rural development. The experiments in this field also include a shift in the focus approach design of intervention and organizational framework to initiate and sustain the development and welfare activities for rural communities. During five development decades we have experimented and also gained experience in the field of rural development that has enlightened us to dream design and development our rural communities on sustainable process. In this process people are enabled to have access and effective participation in development as well as in welfare activities. Both governmental and non governmental efforts are aiming at the people and area to initiate a self sustained and people centred development. We have attempted to document experiments made in development process through that gained rich experience in the process of initiating and managing sustainable rural development and its positive consequences on the people's life in the rural communities. 358 pp.

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Title: Empowering Rural India : Experiments and Experiences
Publisher: Kanishka, New Delhi
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8173918341
ISBN 13: 9788173918346
Binding: Hardbound
Edition: New
Condition: As New
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