National economic policy and programmes will create ripples in the sub-national economies at all times. In the post-reform period, Indian economy shows welcome changes in industrial and services sectors and worrisome problems in social sectoral development shifts. The edited book is an attempt to picturise the socio-economic developmental changes in the post-reform period in India. The book is broadly divided into two parts. Part A deals with the performance, problems and perspectives of decadal economic reforms. Part B analyses the changes, challenges and prospects of the Tamil Nadu economic development in all sectors during the above period. Apart from the contributors from different parts of India, his excellency Dr. C. Rangarajan, Prof. P.R. Brahmananda and Dr. K. Venkatasubramanian, Member of the Planning Commission have analysed critically the Indian economic dynamics. A special focus on Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s ‘India vision 2020’ is added for the benefit of young scholars. The book provides new thoughts and riders in the economic development dynamics in India. It will be of rich referral to students, researchers and policy pundits on the contemporary Indian economic challenges and on the contextual regional development of Tamil Nadu economy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P Jegadish Gandhi
P. Jegadish Gandhi (1941), formerly Professor of Economics at Voorhees College, Vellore for over three decades, is now Director of the Vellore Institute of Development Studies. Specialising in Development and Socio-economic issues, Gandhi has more than 200 articles published in leading economic journals and in popular periodicals in India and abroad and 23 books of his credit. His latest book on Dr. Kalam’s PURA Model and Societal Transformation was published in January 2005. he has participated in and presented papers at several national and regional seminars and international conferences. Gandhi jhas the distinction of having been a Visiting Scientist, DST (Government of India) Project, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1987-88). He was Vice-President of the International Society for Intercommunication of New Ideas (USA) and Treasurer, Vice-President and President (2000-2001), the Association of Economists of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Gandhi has been honoured with the Senior Economist Award of the Association of economists of Tamil Nadu in 2002. He was an Expert Member of the Working Groups on Road Transport Services, Employmetn/Unemployment and Rural Development in the formulation of 9th & 10th Plans, State Planning Commission, Government of Tamil Nadu. Dr. Gandhi is presently an Academic Council Member of Vellore Institute of Technology, Deemed University and Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore. As a social activist, he has been working for the abolition of bonded labour and child labour system among other issues of social concern.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Ganesan
Dr P. Ganesan is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History, School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. He obtained his M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. degree from the School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University and also got his Master of Library Science and Master of Tourism Management further from the same university.
He started his career as a Lecture in Tourism Management in the Madurai University College and later joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Government Arts College, Karur, Tamil Nadu before becoming an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History, School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University.
He has published two books so far, Art and Architecture in India (Tamil) and Prehistoric Culture of Madurai Region. He has twenty research articles in national & international seminars to his credit. Besides, he presented three papers in international conferences. Under his guidance fifty-five M.Phil. have been awarded and six M.Phil. are ongoing. Besides, under his guidance three Ph.D. have been awarded, four is submitted and seven are ongoing. In addition, he worked on a major research project sponsored by UGC on Jaina Monuments in the Pandya Country.
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