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This book basically examines the role of rural housing for decent living of population rooted in rural Uttarakhand with an analytical frame of micro-private benefits like adequacy of living space per person, the quality and durability of houses as well as of macro-public facilities of approach roads, water supply system, electricity, fuel, sanitation and public space. It also establishes a positive impact of housing ensuring utilisation of local natural and human ...
This book examines the extent to which the public distribution system (PDS) in India has succeeded in providing essential commodities to the people living below poverty line.Taking the state of Uttar Pradesh as a case study, the book reviews the functioning of the delivery system beginning from the procurement of foodgrains by the government till their distribution to the beneficiaries of the PDS, the constraints faced by Fair Price Shops, and the in-built vices ...
This book is aimed at covering food security of those people who have less access to food for survival. It considers food-poverty as a basis for searching whether public distribution system works to ensure food security of people targeted. The book accepts in principle the idea that social security has to aim at abolishing want by guaranteeing every citizen an adequate income at all times to meet his basic needs. While dealing with the operational part of social ...
Poverty in India considered predominantly as a rural phenomenon can be tackled not only by raising the level of total rural income but more by redistribution of rising rural income. The focus of this book is on distribution of rural incomes considered as one intricately linked with creation of mandays in productive works and employing rural workers by both the number of persons employed and mandays. Employability of the workers available in India's rural economy ...
The book focuses on the techno-economic possibilities of converting fly ash into economic goods through internalization of fly ash within the industrial plants. The study focuses on two industrial plants located in two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India in the general frame of industrialization. The analysis shows the possibility of reduction of generation of fly ash per unit of final output, the possibility of transforming fly ash generated in one ...
This book aims at unfolding the problem of housing security of the people settled in rural Uttar Pradesh. Housing in this book connotes not only dwelling units but also utility services like approach roads, water supply system, sewage and garbage disposal systems, electricity and fuel, and facilities such as markets, and health centres. It presents a comparative picture of the housing programmes that cover both government-supported housing and self initiated ...