Economic Planning And Development Of North-Eastern States

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The contributions in this book are the revised version of the papers presented at a workshop organised by the ISEC and NOVIB at Bangalore. These papers examine the issues related to the interface between decentralised Government and NGOs, strategies adopted by NGOs to enable their target group to participate in Gram Panchayats and problems encountered in the process. Four papers are conceptual and delineate the role of NGOs in revitalising the Gram Panchayats. Two papers are fieldwork based accounts on the impact of interface between Gram Panchayats and the target group of NGOs. The papers by NGO leaders document and analyse the strategies adopted by them before, during and after the elections to Gram Panchayats. The book, which raises several issues relating to the interface and offers concrete strategies adopted by a number of rural development NGOs in South India, will be of help to academics, policy makers, Government officials, NGOs, training and academic institutes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amalesh Banerjee

Dr. Amalesh Banerjee is well-known for his extensive writing of monetary economics. He contributed over three decades in many conferences and seminars at the national and international leval. He has a number of publications in the field of monetary and development economics. Currently he is the Guest of the Faculty of Economics of Jadavpur University. Formerly he was the Head of the Department and Professor of Economics at Rabindra Bharati University. Dr. Banerjee is a distinguished member of many associations of social science at national and international level. He is the President of Bengal Economic Association and the Vice-President of Indian Economic Association.