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The consists of essays written by eminent academicians in honour of Dr. K V Sundaram. The focus of the essays is on wide range of issues that have been close to Dr. Sundaram. The development debate is an on-going one but by and large the issues have remained the same in spite of more than sixty years of Independence. The essays focus on livelihood issues and employement generation, promoting gender equality, ensuring a clean environment, ...
The present volume is a part of the NAGI Compendiums on State of Natural and Human Resources of India. The basic objective of editing this volume is to collate the recent research articles on human resources and comprehend the diversity of issues, which have become more relevant in today's world, especially after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD-94), held at Rio de Janeiro. Needless to say that the studies on human resources ...
Based on extensive field work with a focus on children who are retrieved from carpet industry in the Bhadoi-Mirzapur belt of Uttar Pradesh and admitted to the non formal schools, the book evaluates the programme of non-formal education and the progress made by the children released from the industry, their status of health and nutrition, education, skill development, employment' orientation and training in such schools. It also provides an account of the ...
Slum in the Metropolis--the Living Environment covers the multi-dimensional profile of the urban poor. The book provides an indepth analysis of social and economic conditions of the people living in a squatter settlement with surrounding middle and high income residential areas in South Delhi. On one hand, it examines the quality of people, in terms of their socio-economic status, on the other hand, it highlights the deficiencies of the living environment, in ...