The book addresses the felt need of inter-generation equity criterion in terms of the reduction of inter-regional, inter-gender, inter-social groups and inter-personal disparities of the various economic political and social dimensions of development. Strategies for Sustainable Rural Development is an ed. Volume containing wide spectrum of quality research papers presented during the National Seminar organized by HIRD, Nilokheri, during 14-15 March 2002. A total of thirty-three research papers have been carefully edited and presented in this volume. For convenience of the readers, this book has been divided into three parts, and research contributions, thus, have been categorized under the given contemporary relevance of themes and sub-themes, eg., Dimensions of Sustainability: Rural Development and its Parameters; Rural Development: Population, Agriculture, Technology, Water Development: Case Studies. It is a book that will be read with keen interest to ponder upon the issues raised by distinguished writers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Surat Singh
Dr. Surat Singh is the Director of the Haryana Institute of Rural Development, Nilokheri. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Political Science in 1984. Earlier to his present assignment, Dr. Singh has been associated with NIRD, Hyderabad for a decade and worked in different capacities. Dr. Surat Singh has to his credit of successfully completing several Research Projects sponsored by Govt. of India, Govt. of Haryana and other Organizatins. Few of them are, viz. Status of Panchayati Raj in Delhi, Common Land Encroachment and Panchayat Finances, Women Representatives in PRIs and National Social Assistance programmes. Few of his books published are: Facets of Development in Rural Society (1997), Women Panchayati Raj Representatives in Haryana (1998), Problems and Prospects of Panchayat Finances: A Study of Common Lands (2001). In addition, he has published more than thirty Research Papers in Journals of International and National repute including the ‘Community Participation in Risk Management’-orally presented in an International Conference held at Sweden.
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