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India has a surface and ground water irrigation potential of nearly 100 million hectares, which has made it a country with the largest irrigated area in the world. This book deals with the policy and governance issues in relation to management as well as development of water resources in India. Taking a holistic approach, it makes a critical review of the state of the art concerning most of the important aspects of the water sector and comes forward with ...
Water, an essential element for survival and growth of human beings, is becoming increasingly scarce. How to manage water has thus emerged as one of the great challenges of the 21century. This volume covers the whole gamut of issues related to sustainable development of water resources impinging on socio-economic, institutional and environmental aspects that would face the humanity in the coming decades. It also focuses on issues relating to overall approach and ...
During recent years there has been a growing realisation of the important role that voluntary organisations, now known better as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), can play in socio-economic development. This is particularly so for bringing about decentralised development with a focus on upliftment of the weaker sections of the society. The emergence of such an approach has been largely due to the disillusionment with the earlier adopted strategy of ...
V.K.R.V. Rao and B.R. Shenoy are outstanding names amongst the Indian economists of the second half of the 20 century. But they held views which were diametrically opposed to each other. The contrast between their ideas came into sharp focus at the time of the formulation of the second Five Year Plan and continued for more than a decade. The present book V.K.R.V. Rao and B.R. Shenoy : Economic Ideas in Contrast, deals with the economic ideas of both these ...
The spectre of drought, which results in complete or partial failure of crops, haunts most of the states in India. And yet not much information is available on areas prone to drought and their development potential. The present book is an attempt to fill this gap. The book gives an account of the profile of the drought prone areas of three selected states and reviews their performance with respect to socio-economic development. It indicates the role that drought, ...