Rural Development in India

Contents Acknowledgements. Foreword. Contributors. Over view. 1. Impact of globalization on Indian rural scenario/M. Sundara Rao and A. Sailaja Devi. 2. Globalization and rural industries a study of handlooms/Yadagiri Tadaka. 3. Role of Handloom co operatives in rural development in Andhra Pradesh an appraisal of the performance/V. Badari Narayana. 4. Promotion of micro enterprise as a tool for capacity building of rural women experiences from Karnataka/M. Indira. 5. Economic development and women entrepreneurship in rural areas/D. Kalpana Kumari. 6. DWCRA tragedy of a Triumph/M.V.S. Koteswara Rao. 7. Development of tribal women through self help groups/Govinda Chandra Panda. 8. Role of self help groups in rural poverty alleviation with special reference to South Tamilnadu/S. Michael John Peter and V. Saravanan. 9. The determinants of rural non farm employment in two villages of Andhra Pradesh/M. Prasada Rao. 10. Dialectics of rural development/G. Bhaskar and V.V. Reddy. 11. Agrarian relations and rural development/M. Ravinder Reddy. 12. Effective functioning of Grama Sabha a key for success of democratic decentralization/M.V. Narasimha Sarma and G.B. Franklin. 13. Democratic decentralization and its financial implications in India/V.P. Tripathi and Yogesh Kapoor. 14. Water management for sustainable rural development/N. Loganandhan and N. Sandhya Shenoy. 15. Impact assessment of local initiatives in water resource development in rural areas/K.N. Joshi. 16. A study on noon meal scheme and elementary education in Karnataka/S. Rajendran and C. Nanjunadaiah. 17. India's infrastructure development special reference to road transportation/Shoukat Alim and Mangala Mani. 18. Self help groups a means to reduction of poverty a case study in Cuddalore district Tamil Nadu/D. Janaki Raman. This book is consisting of interesting research papers on various rural development programmes that were implemented in India. The papers discuss elaborately and critically many important micro and macro level aspects of the rural development in India. The areas covered in this book include rural women and development rural non farm sector problems of rural development Panchayat Raj rural education water management globalization and rural development etc. Various suggestions are made with regard to policy formulations and implementation of the rural development programmes. The papers include in this book are the revised and updated versions presented at the national conference on Hundred years of rural development in India held at Acharya Nagarjuna University Guntur A.P. In order to make this a compact and meaningful volume an over view has also been added. The volume is highly useful to students teachers researchers and policy makers. 214 pp.…