Name: Rural Development and Livelihoods in India
Brand: New Century Publications (IND)
SKU: 9788177084603
Price: 37.99 GBP
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Rural Development and Livelihoods in India

By (author): Niranjan Sahoo

Published by New Century Publications (IND)

In Stock

£37.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 154
ISBN: 9788177084603
Publication Date: 01-Jan-2018

Subjects:
Development economics & emerging economies

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The share of rural population in total population of India was 74.3 percent in 1991 which decreased to 72.2 percent in 2001. According to 2011 Census, rural population was 68.8 percent of total population. With prospect of industrialisation and the consequent migration of rural population to urban areas, the percentage share of rural population in total population is expected to decline to 60 percent by 2030. Nevertheless, in the present scenario the bulk of Indias population lives in rural areas. Alleviation of rural poverty has been one of the primary objectives of planned development in India. Ever since the launching of the First Five Year Plan on April 1, 1951, the policies and the programmes have been designed and redesigned with this aim. It has now been realised that a sustainable strategy of poverty alleviation has to be based on increasing the productive employment opportunities in the process of growth itself. Rural poverty is inextricably linked with low rural productivity and unemployment, including underemployment. Hence, it is imperative to improve productivity and increase employment in rural areas. This book explains the problems of rural masses in India and examines public policies and programmes to solve them.

Dr. Niranjan Sahoo is Professor of Disaster Management, at Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi. He is also Advisor, National Productivity Council, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India. Born in Odisha, he is academically specialized in rural management domain in general and disaster management in particular. In his 20-years of job experience, he initially got a campus placement offer while studying at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan by a Germany-based funding agency (EZE, Bonn) located in Calcutta. He was felicitated with Visva-Bharati Snatakattor Upadhi in 1997 at Santiniketan by the then Prime Minister of India Shri I.K. Gujral. He got his Ph.D. degree from Magadh University, Bodhgaya, India. Professor Sahoo received International Intellectual Award 2010 in an International Conference on Indo-Thai Friendship Summit and Economic Growth held in Bangkok, Thailand on December 30, 2010 for outstanding rural development teachings.. He has to his credit 15 research publications in national and international journals. Besides, he has authored three books, the recent one being annotated by Journal of Economic Literature of Economic Association of America and reviewed by the Prime Minister of India. Being a community member to the UNSDRR, he was part of the United Nations delegation to its global platform held in Mexico (2017), Ulaan Baatar (2018) and in Geneva (2019) along with the Home Minister of India.