Rural Development in India

Contents Foreword Preface 1 Rural Development Programme Some Strategies for Ensuring EffectivenessDP Singh 2 Social Work Responses to Empowerment needs of developing societiesMukul Srivastava 3 Politics in DevelopmentTathagata Datta 4 Women empowerment and Panchayati raj institutions Myth and realityBir Pal Singh 5 Social consequences of land reforms An experience of Darjeeling HillsSwatahsiddha Sarkar 6 Democratic Dynamics and Social change-Evidence from the fieldCD Adhikary and Munmun Moghanty 7 Seeds of change The Green Revolution and Social and Spatial Inequality in IndiaSibabrata Das 8 Historical Perspectives of Panchayati Raj in India An overviewTrilochan Dash 9 Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on rural IndiaRajiv Navan 10 Rural Development in 21st CenturyManish Kumar 11 Role of NGOs in Rural DevelopmentManish Dwivedi 12 Cooperatives and Its Impact on rural developmentBishnu Mohan Dash 13 Tribal Development in Rural India Issues and concernsTapas Kumar Sarangi 14 Participatory Planning and Action for Rural DevelopmentSanti Swarup Misra 15 Approaches and Strategies of Rural Development During India?s Five Year Plans Strategies for the FutureSanjoy Roy 16 Approaches to Rural DevelopmentManish Kumar 17 NREGA Opportunities and ChallengesGulshan Kumar 18 Fight Against Rural Poverty Review of ProgramamesShweta Varshney 19 Facets of Rural Development Some Important IssuesRavindra Singh 20 Financial Institutions and Microfinance A Step Towards Rural Development and Empowerment of womenParna Chakraborty IndexThis book presents a critical analysis on the important core issues on rural development It contains twenty chapters contributed by Educators and Researchers belonging to different disciplines It covers a wide range of issues concerning rural development such as Land Reforms Green Revolution Micro Finance and Cooperatives Panchayatiraj and the empowerment of Weaker Sections Participatory Planning and Action NREGA Poverty Alleviation Programmes Role of Non Governmental Organizations and Impact of Global Economic Crisis etc It is hoped that the present book Rural Developments n India will help the readers to comprehend better the issues involved in the process of rural development It will also meet the specific requirements of academicians researchers in various fields of social sciences The book will be particularly useful for the students of Social Work Rural Development and Sociology at Undergraduate and post graduate level 246 pp.…