By Abhishek Yadav: Each year large numbers of civilians are killed and injured by explosive remnants of war. These are the unexploded weapons such as artillery shells, mortars, grenades, bombs and rockets, left behind after an armed conflict. When an armed conflict is over, the battlefields
By Dr Amrit Patel: Part 1 Indian Council of Agricultural Research: The ICAR Research Centre for NEH Region at Umiam was established in 1975 with six regional centres to improve and develop sustainable farming systems for different agro-climatic and socio-economic conditions of the region. It
By Dr Amrit Patel: Acknowledging the significance of traditional system of self-governance and social customs of livelihood in North Eastern Region [NER], Government of India, after independence, initiated policy to accelerate the process of socio-economic development in many parts of the Region. Government recognizing the
By Dr. Amrit Patel: Continued from Part 2 of a 3 part series. Sanitation machinery: Experiences suggest that no uniform design of a toilet should be forced on user-beneficiaries. The user of a toilet should be free to select design of his/her toilet. It is reported that Sulabh
By Dr. Amrit Patel: Continued from Part 1 of a 3 part series. Another pertinent challenge to be dealt with is the rural-urban divide. Government of India’s first Socio-Economic Census and Comprehensive Population Survey, 2011, reveals significantly disappointing progress and developments on certain basic amenities
By Dr. Amrit Patel: Planning for human development in India is now more important than before, and it should aim at policy interventions that focus sharply on all its manifestations. It must ensure an improvement in the standard of living of the people through provision
By Dr. Amrit Patel: Land has been a stock of renewable resources and a source for human survival as well as improving the quality of human life. Since it has competing demand and multiple uses the rate of land degradation far exceeds its natural rate
By Arpita Sharma: The impact of the information technology has been to highlight a fourth element in the process of globalization and make it typical of globalization in our times. This is financial capital invested in the capital market of emerging countries. It is true
By Arpita Sharma: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual