Rural Development in India

1. Efficient Systems for Waste Water Treatment—B. Anjan Kumar Prusty and P.A. Azeez 2. Participatory Economics, Decentralization and Rural Development—A. Abdul Rahman 3. Agrarian Distress & Farmers’ Suicides—Rakesh A. Joshi 4. Impact Assessment of Rural Poverty Alleviation Programmes from Rights Based Perspective—Case Study of a Chronically Poor and Deprived District in India—Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay and Anit Nath Mukherjee 5. Ensuring Socio-Economic Development of Rural India through Electrification—Debajit Palit 6. Ecological Modernization and the “Gene Revolution”: The Case Study of Bt Cotton in India—Ashok Kumbamu 7. Empowering Panchayats through the Employment Guarantee Scheme—T. Prabhakar Reddy 8. Farm Level Land and Water Productivity in Tank Some Methodological Issues—K. Sivasubramaniyan and R. Sakthivadivel 9. Rural Development Through Reclamation of Saline Lands—S.K. Gupta, T.V. Satyanarayana and P. Balakrishnan 10. Paradigm Shifting in Rural Development—Anjani Kumar Singh 11. Legal Protection of Geographical An Indian Perspective—Kasturi Das 12. Land Rights of Women and the Implication for Agricultural Productivity and Food Security—Roma 13. Strategies to Reduce the Impact of Salt on Crops (Rice, Cotton and Chilli) A Case Study of the Tsunami-affected Area of India—Tchouaffe Tchiadje Norbert F. 14. An Economic Analytics of Edible Fruits Business in Rural Areas of Madhya Pradesh State of India—Manoj Kumar Singh Contributors

K.R. Gupta is a well-known Economist. He has published over a dozen of books and contributed more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching postgraduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises.