This books brings together a number of interesting research papers on various Rural Development Programmes that were implemented in India. The authors include eminent experts in the academic and other fields. The papers discuss vividly and critically many important macro and micro level aspects of the Rural Development in India. The areas covered in the book include, rural poverty and livelihoods, drinking water and health care, women empowerment, Panchayat Raj Institution, impact of globalization on Agriculture and Rural Development etc. Valuable suggestions are made with regard to policy formulations and practical implementation of the rural development programmes. The papers included here are the revised and updated versions presented at a National Conference on “Hundred years of Rural Development in India†held at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, A.P. in order to make this a compact and meaningful volume, an over view has also been added. The volume is highly useful to students, teachers, researchers and policy makers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR C. Narasimha Rao
Prof. C. Narasimha Rao, Presently heading the center for Scientific Socialism and Department of Rural Development at Nagarjuna University, A.P. has taken his post Graduate degree in economics from Andhra University, Waltair. He obtained Doctoral degree in Political Economy from the Institute of Economics, Kiev, of the erthwhile USR, Presently the capital city of Ukraine. Professor Rao has so far organized Twelve National seminars as director. He participated and presented papers in several National and International seminars and contributed significantly to the knowledge in the subject. He edited and published four books and this would be the fifth volume. Prof. Rao has also published twenty five papers in various journals and eight research degrees were awarded under his guidance. He extensively toured most of the European countries including Poland, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Belgium etc. and gained first hand knowledge and rich experience about the socio-politico economic conditions of those countries.
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