Contents Preface V Contributors xi PART 'A' EMPLOYMENT SCENARIO AND GENERATION 1. Employment Scenario in India 3 - M.L. Dhar 2. Review of Rural Employment Programme 9 -Dr. Sawalia Bihari Verma Dr. Yogesh Upadhyay Sant Gyaneshwar Pd. Singh 3. Improving Income and Employment Opportunities 55 - Prof. B. Rai 4. Rural Banks Promoting Employment Generation 60 - P. N. Sankaran 5. Rights of Workers Strategies for Employment Generation 68 -Bharat Jhunjhunwala 6. Rural Employment Generation: Some Strategies 74 -Dr. H. D. Dwarakanath 7. Strategies for Rural Employment 86 - Navin Chandra Joshi 8. Rural Employment 97 - Srivallabha Sharan 9. Rural Employment and People's Participation108 -D. Sunder Raj 10.Promoting Generation Through Community Polytechnics 116 - A. K. Jain 11.Rural Employment 122 -Dr. Sawalia Bihari Verma 12.Growth with Employment Supportive Policies 136 - S. R. Hashim 13.Information Technology in Rural Employment 146 - Prof. P. Purushotham PART 'B' CREATING SELF EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES 14.Employment Generation in Small Units 155 - Rana Bijoy Deb 15.Apiculture: Gainful Employment for Rural Women 164 - R. A. Goyal 16.Creating Jobs for 76 Million People 173 -Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 17.Self-Employment Avenues for Rural Women 184 -Ashok Baran Das 18.Self-Employment Programmes for Rural Poor 189 -Dr. P. Purushotham 19.Self-Employment Avenues in Food Industry 194 -Dr. P. Purushotham 20. Self-Employment in Food Industry 202 -Prof. P. Purushotham 21.Self-Employment Opportunities 208 -Jayanti Ghose 22.Employment Generation Through Forest-Based Village Industries 216 -R. P. Chaturvedi 23.Bamboo and Rural Employment 226 -K. G. Karmakar & M. S. Hague 24.Agri -Clinics and Agri -Business Centres Self-Employment Avenues for Agriculture Graduates 232 -Dr. P. Purushotham 25.Employment Opportunities in Agri - clinics 237 -B. C. Das and R. K. Mohapatra 26.Technology for Employment Generation in Agro Industries 244 -P. Purushotham 27.Youth Development -- 255 -Sunit Dutt 28.Rural Job Opportunities Agri -Business Centres Some Realities 263 -Ratan Godara 29.Agro-Industries: Key to Economic Progress 270 -BadarAlam Iqbal PART 'C' PROBLEMS OF RURAL EMPLOYMENT 30.Management of Unemployment Problem 279 -Dr. N. Rajavel 31.Problem of Educated Unemployed 286 -Dr. D. C. Misra 32.Educated Unemployment: Causes and Approaches 291 -S. B. Verma PART 'D' RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAMMES 33.Job Guarantee for the Rural Poor 307 -E. C. Thomas 34.Rural Employment Guarantee 312 -Jugal K. Mohapatra 35.Sampooran Grameen Rozgar Yojana and Employment Generation: An Assessment 318 -Puran Singh 36.Sampooran Grameen Rozgar Yojana Is It Really Sampooran? 334 37.Minimum Wages and Employment 354 -Siddharth Varadarajan 38.Employment Guarantee 359 - Santosh Mehrotra 39.Employment Guarantee Act: Promise and Demise 366 - Jean Dreze 40.Guaranteed Rural Employment Towards Socio-Economic Transformation 376 -Dhurjati Mukherjee 41.Employment Guarantee Act- A Half-way Measure 381 -Ruddar Datt 42.The NREGA: Rural People to Grow with the Nation 391 -Manohar Puri 43.National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme A Task Ahead 396 -Puran Singh 44.National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: An Approach to Inclusive Growth 409 - A. Vinayak Reddy* 45.Backward Linkages of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme 422 -J.N. Singh & Anurag Mishra PART 'E' ROLE OF PANCHAYATI RAJ INSTITUTIONS IMPLEMENTING THE SCHEME 46. Role of PRIs in Implementing Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - Amrit Patel 437 Index 452