Agricultural Growth And Equity (A Micro-Level Experience)

by C. H. Shah, Vimal Shah, Sudarshan Iyengar

Overview

In a developing country like India where the bulk of the population lives in rural area, improving water supply, providing adequate sanitation and encouraging safe hygiene practices are intrinsic to community development. They influence, economic ‘development, employment, health and numerous other social sectors. The benefits derived from these are spread across many societal concerns. Water is life and sanitation is a way of life. Both are critical for improvement in the quality of life. However, provision of potable water supply and sanitation facilities is not only a technological problem but has deep sociological ramifications and their acceptance by the people involves a number of human factors. The present study seeks to explore the sociological dimensions of these issues in the context of current situation in India with special reference to Bihar. It covers 1300 respondents spread over 130 villages in different parts of the State. The role of social variables like sex, education, caste, religion, region, and exposure to media in respect of water supply and sanitation have been brought out. The socio-cultural constraints in the. adoption of new practices and the views of youth and women on these matters have also been analysed. The role of NGOs and the mobilization for people's participation for improving the existing situation have also been discussed. Towards the end of the study, the agenda for future action in these fields have been set out. The study brings out clearly how neglect of such concerns affect women, children and the weaker section of the community more than others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789390623297
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	169
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

DR. C.H. SHAH (b. 1920), an eminent agricultural economist, was Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Department of Economics of University of Bombay at the time of his retirement in 1980. An Hon. Secretary of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics for many years, he was President of its Annual Conference in1979 and was connected with the editing of its Journal for several years. He has published a large number of papers and books on varied aspects of Indian agriculture, rural living standards, and the influence of people's preferences on their nutritional status. After retirement he has settled down in Carr. bridge, Mass., U.S.A.

SHRI VIMAL SHAH (b. 1921), author Of the celebrated socio-economic survey of Bhuvel village of Kheda district, was Director of the Tribal Research Institute at Gujarat Vidyapeeth during 1963-70. As the Founder-Director of the Gujarat Institute of Area Planning (1971-1983), he had prepared a plan for Talala Block of Junagadh district and several other research studies. Jointly with C.H. Shah, he had authored the Resurvey of MatarTaluka, a predecessor of the present volume

Dr. SUDARSHAN IYENGAR (b. 1954) wrote his Ph. D thesis at the M.S. University of Baroda on the Economics of Minor Irrigation in Panch mahals District, where he had worked on problems of district planning for several years. As a Fellow at the Gujarat Institute of Area Planning, since 1982, he has been active in research on the various problems of common property land resources and voluntary agencies engaged in rural development. He is currently on leave of absence for two years -to assist the resettlement of people affected by the ongoing construction-of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River.