Rural Poverty Alleviation and Employment (Reprint)

Contents Preface. Contributors. I. Rural poverty alleviation 1. New index of poverty/Mahesh Prasad. 2. poverty alleviation greatest challenge/K. Venkatasubramanian. 3. Poverty alleviating challenges and responses/R. Ahila Rajam. 4. Can genetically modified crops help reduce rural poverty/Sabyasachi Das Sujeet K. Jha and Sandip Das. 5. Poverty in India synoptic view/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 6. Strategies for eradication of poverty in India/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 7. Poverty eradication in rural India/Amal Mandal. 8. A new policy on poverty reduction/M. Lakshmi Narasaiah. 9. Rural technologies for poverty alleviation/P.Purushotham. 10. Poverty alleviation projects design and implementation/Pitabasa Sahoo. 11. SGSY an improvisation in anti poverty programmes/Rakesh Malhotra. 12. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana evolution assessment and future prospects/Mahi Pal. 13. Prime Minister Rojgar Yojana/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 14. Annapurna scheme/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 15. Role of banks in poverty eradication/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 16. DRDA's role in programme implementation/T.K. Krishna Rao. 17. NGO's intervention in poverty alleviation scope and reality/D.K. Ghosh. 18. Credit based poverty alleviation an innovative approach/Sawalia Bihari Verma. II. Employment problems and solutions 19. Poverty eradication a road map/Gnana Desigan C. 20. Making technologies work for the poor/R.A. Mashelkar. 21. Redefining SGRY by restructuring wage employment programmes/Avtar Singh Sahota. 22. Training approaches and constraints/R.M. Varma. 23. Farmers orientation programme for agricultural development/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 24. JPRGY to guarantee employment in distressed areas/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 25. Rural employment/Srivallabha Sharan. 26. Rural employment and people's participation/D. Sunder Raj. 27. Rural employment generation some strategies/H.D. Dwarakanath. 28. Strategies for rural employment/Navin Chandra Joshi. 29. Growth with employment supportive policies/S.R. Hashim. 30. Employment generation in small units/Rana Bijoy Deb. 31. Employment generation through polytechnics/A.K. Jain. 32. Self employment in food industry/P. Purushotham. 33. Employment generation through forest based village industries/R.P. Chaturvedi. 34. Bamboo and rural employment/K.G. Karmakar and M.S. Haque. 35. Management of unemployment problem/N. Rajavel. Index. Despite the steady growth of economy after independence the problem of unemployment is still on the increase. The benefit of growth has failed to percolate down to the poor people especially in rural areas. The strategy for poverty alleviation includes acceleration of rapid economic growth with a focus on employment intensive sectors (generation of income and wealth) access to basic minimum services for improving the quality of life of poorest of poor and direct state intervention in the form of targeted anti poverty programmes including provision of subsidized foodgrains. 318 pp.…