Rural Development Reforms

Contents Preface. I. Concept of rural development 1. Strengthening farmer's organisation for sustainable rural development/Sanjay K. Singh and Shantanu Kumar. 2. Rural development in India a review/P. Narasimha Rao and R. Venkata Rao. 3. Rural development in the new millennium/Lalit Kumar Tyagi and Rajesh Kumar. 4. Rural development social sensibilities/Navin Chandra Joshi. 5. Rural transformation the Gandhian prescription/L.P. Singh. 6. The state of development in rural India an overview/J.P. Singh. 7. Wasteland development/Navin Chandra Joshi. II. Programmes for rural development 8. Decentralized approach to rural development/Anil P. Joshi. 9. New approaches for rural development/Madhab Adhikari and G.S. Momi. 10. Rural development and poverty alleviation perspective/Srikara Naik and Sukhvir Singh. 11. Decentralisation for rural development/Kripa Shankar. 12. Programmes for rural development in India since independence/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 13. Farmers orientation programme for agricultural development/Sawalia Bihari Vema. 14. Role of commercial banks in rural development/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 15. Rural urban migration and the informal sector in India/K.N. Jayan and Sindhu Sadanandan. 16. Process of urbanisation and rural urban linkages/J.C. Pant. 17. Dovetailing benefits from rural development schemes/Ashutosh Jindal. 18. Reforms in Panchayati Raj mending the amendments/K. Siva Subrahmanyam. 19. The economic package a booster to the economy/K.R. Sudhaman. III. Co operative rural development 20. Co operative processing in rural development/L.P. Singh. 21. Co operation as an instrument of rural development/Katar Singh. 22. Voluntary organisations for rural development/Gopal Krushna Sahu. 23. NGOs in micro financing partners in rural development/Laxmi R. Kulshrestha and Archana Gupta. IV. People's participation in rural development 24. People's participation in rural development/K. Raghupathi. 25. People's participation in rural development/Sunder Raj. 26. Participatory management in rural development a critique/C.R. Reddy and A.V. Ramana. 27. Self reliant participatory rural development/Nisha Arvind and N.R. Gangadharappa. 28. Participatory rural development/Manish Kumar and Chitra Pathak. V. Agricultural development 29. Agricultural extension for rural development/Shantanu Kumar and Uma Sah. 30. Globalisation harnessing opportunities in crop diversification in India/P.S. Sujith Kumar. 31. WTO's impact on Indian agriculture/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 32. No intervention regime in agriculture/Ashok B. Sharma. 33. Agro export zones the engine to boost farm exports/A.R. Patel. 34. Global warming under agricultural scenario/Avishek Datta Manisha Basu and S.C. Mahapatra. 35. Measures to further boost the economy/G. Srinivasan. 36. Reforms in the agriculture sector/P.K. Singh. 37. Economic reforms and agriculture/D. Rudrappan. Index. Rural means a fixed number of people living in a community and development means a positive change in living standard of such people. Rural development cannot be achieved without a complete process of change in rural areas which leads to improvements in rural income employment opportunities income distribution rural welfare and other aspects of rural life. Rural development reform is not a time bound process. It is ceaseless and continuous effort which requires long term planning and for this certain bold assumptions or will powers have to be made. 312 pp.…