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9788177085297 |
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English |
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338.109 |
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Singh, Yashvir |
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75 Years of Agricultural and Rural Development in India: |
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1947-48 to 2021-22 / |
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Yashvir Singh |
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New Delhi : |
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New Century Book House, |
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c2021. |
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286p.: |
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Hardbound |
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7½ x 9¾ |
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Part I: Agriculture and Allied Sectors<br/> <br/>1. Indian Agriculture during British Rule<br/>1.1 Early Phase of British Rule<br/>1.2 Land Relations and Land Rents<br/>1.3 Royal Commission on Agriculture (RCA)<br/>1.4 Great Economic Depression of 1930s and Agriculture<br/>1.5 Government of India Act, 1935 and Agriculture<br/>1.6 Second World War and the Grow More Food (GMF) Campaign<br/>1.7 Statement on Agriculture and Food Policy in India, 1946<br/>1.8 Partition and the Aftermath<br/><br/>2. Agriculture and Allied Sectors: An Overview<br/>2.1 Role of Agriculture in the Indian Economy<br/>2.2 Subsistence Nature of Farming and Small-sized Holdings<br/>2.3 Components of Agriculture and Allied Sectors<br/>2.4 Low Productivity of Indian Agriculture<br/>2.5 COVID-19 and Agricultural Sector<br/> <br/>3. Constitutional Provisions, Institutional Set-up and Recent Legislative Measures for Promotion of Agricultural Sector<br/>3.1 Agriculture in the Constitution of India<br/>3.2 Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare<br/>3.3 Recent Legislative Measures to Promote Indian Agriculture<br/> <br/>4. Land Reforms: Aspects and Critical Appraisal<br/>4.1 Abolition of Intermediaries<br/>4.2 Tenancy Reforms<br/>4.3 Ceiling on Land Holdings<br/>4.4 Consolidation of Holdings<br/>4.5 Protection of Tribals’ Rights in Land<br/>4.6 Critical Appraisal of Land Reforms in India<br/> <br/>5. Agricultural Inputs, Education and Research<br/>5.1 Improved Varieties of Seeds<br/>5.2 Fertilizers<br/>5.3 Plants Protection and Insecticides<br/>5.4 Agricultural Implements and Machines<br/>5.5 Agricultural Education and Research<br/> <br/>6. Irrigation Development and Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY)<br/>6.1 History of Irrigation Development in India<br/>6.2 Importance of Irrigation<br/>6.3 Sources of Irrigation<br/>6.4 Minor and Major Irrigation Schemes<br/>6.5 Command Area Development Programme (CADP)<br/>6.6 Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP)<br/>6.7 Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY)<br/> <br/>7. Agricultural Credit and Farm Loan Waivers<br/>7.1 Credit and Agricultural Development<br/>7.2 Credit Needs of the Indian Farmers<br/>7.3 Sources of Credit for the Farmers<br/>7.4 Co-operative Banks<br/>7.5 Rural Co-operatives<br/>7.6 Farm Loan Waivers<br/> <br/>8. Agricultural Marketing, Trade, and e-NAM<br/>8.1 Nature and Significance of Agricultural Marketing<br/>8.2 Present System of Marketing Agricultural Produce<br/>8.3 Marketing Organizations of the Government<br/>8.4 Agricultural Marketing Information Network (AGMARKNET), 2000<br/>8.5 State Agricultural Produce Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2003: The Model Act<br/>8.6 National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)<br/> <br/>9. Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) and Food Stocks<br/>9.1 Objectives of Agricultural Price Policy<br/>9.2 Minimum Support Prices (MSPs)<br/>9.3 Assessment of Minimum Support Prices (MSPs)<br/>9.4 Burgeoning Food Stocks<br/> <br/>10. Gender Issues in Indian Agriculture<br/>10.1 Role of Women in Agriculture<br/>10.2 Importance of Land for Women<br/>10.3 Gender-sensitive Agricultural Policies of the Government<br/> <br/>11. Agriculture and Information Technology (IT)<br/>11.1 Importance of IT-based Services to Farmers<br/>11.2 National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A)<br/>11.3 Computerisation of Agricultural Census and Input Survey<br/>11.4 Rural Portal of Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD)<br/>11.5 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Software Package (NREGASoft)<br/>11.6 Cyber Dhabas<br/>11.7 E-Choupal<br/>11.8 Kisan Call Centres (KCCs)<br/>11.9 E-Panchayat<br/>11.10 BharatNet<br/>11.11 Digital Village<br/> <br/>12. Plantation and Horticulture<br/>12.1 Need for Diversification of Indian Agriculture<br/>12.2 Plantation Sector<br/>12.3 Horticultural Crops<br/> <br/>13. Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying<br/>13.1 Fisheries<br/>13.2 Animal Husbandry<br/>13.3 Dairy Farming<br/> <br/>14. Agricultural Exports, Imports, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)<br/>14.1 Agricultural Exports<br/>14.2 Agricultural Imports<br/>14.3 FDI in Agriculture and Allied Sectors<br/> <br/>15. Climate Change, Indian Agriculture and Policy Measures<br/>15.1 Evidence on Climate Change<br/>15.2 Perceived Consequences of Climate Change<br/>15.3 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)<br/>15.4 Impact of Climate Change on India<br/>15.5 India’s Approach to Climate Change<br/>15.6 National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)<br/>15.7 Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change<br/>15.8 Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)<br/> <br/>Part II: Rural Infrastructure and Development<br/> <br/>16. Constitutional Provisions and Institutional Set Up for Rural Development<br/>16.1 Degree of Ruralisation<br/>16.2 Constitutional Provisions for Rural Development<br/>16.3. Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD)<br/>16.4 Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)<br/>16.5 Training of Rural Development Functionaries<br/>16.6 District Rural Development Agency (DRDA)<br/>16.7 Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialisation (MGIRI)<br/>16.8 Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)<br/>16.9 Bharat Nirman Programme for Rural Infrastructure<br/>16.10 Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA)<br/> <br/>17. Rural Industries: Khadi, Coir, Handloom and Others<br/>17.1 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)<br/>17.2 Khadi and Village Industries (KVI)<br/>17.3 Coir Industry<br/>17.4 Handlooms<br/>17.5 Powerlooms<br/>17.6 Handicrafts<br/>17.7 Silk and Sericulture<br/>17.8 Unorganised Wool Sector<br/>17.9 Food Processing Industry<br/> <br/>18. Rural Financial Inclusion<br/>18.1 Financial Inclusion Defined<br/>18.2 Advantages of Financial Inclusion<br/>18.3 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Financial Inclusion<br/>18.4 Financial Inclusion Measures by NABARD<br/>18.5 Micro Finance<br/>18.6 Self-help Groups (SHGs)<br/>18.7 RuPay ATM-cum-Debit Kisan Credit Cards (RKCCs)<br/>18.8 NABARD’s Project E-Shakti for Digitisation of SHGs<br/> <br/>19. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)<br/>19.1 Objectives and Significance of MGNREGS<br/>19.2 Expression of Demand for Employment<br/>19.3 Labour Budget, Inventory of Projects and Perspective Plan<br/>19.4 Work Record, Payment of Wages and Preventing Bogus Muster Rolls<br/>19.5 Vigilance and Transparency<br/>19.6 Other Processes of MGNREGS<br/>19.7 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Software Package (NREGASoft)<br/>19.8 Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)<br/>19.9 Aadhar Linked Payments (ALP)<br/>19.10 National Electronic Fund Management System (NeFMS)<br/>19.11 GeoMGNREGA<br/>19.12 Recommendations of NCEUS to Improve MGNREGS<br/>19.13 New Guidelines to Strengthen MGNREGS<br/>19.14 Some Recent Initiatives under MGNREGS<br/>19.15 MGNAREGS in Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan<br/>19.16 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan<br/>19.17 MGNREGS: Concluding Observations<br/> <br/>20. Rural Housing and Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G)<br/>20.1 Rural Housing Programmes in India: A Brief History<br/>20.2 Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY)<br/>20.3 Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G)<br/> <br/>21. Rural Transport and Communications<br/>21.1 Rural Transport<br/>21.2 Rural Telephony: Digital Divide and Universal Service Obligation (USO)<br/> <br/>22. Rural Electrification and Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana<br/>22.1 Rural Electrification Policy, 2006<br/>22.2 Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana ((RGGVY)<br/>22.3 Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DUGJY)<br/>22.4 Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana—Saubhagya<br/> <br/>23. Rural Water Supply and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)─Rural<br/>23.1 Importance of Water<br/>23.2 Need for Safe Drinking Water<br/>23.3 Water Pollution<br/>23.4 Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP)<br/>23.5 Swajaldhara<br/>23.6 National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)<br/>23.7 Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)─Rural<br/>23.8 National Rural Drinking Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Programme (NRDWQM&SP)<br/>23.9 Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)<br/>23.10 Major Issues in Rural Water Supply<br/> <br/>24. Rural Health and Ayushman Bharat<br/>24.1 Importance of Health<br/>24.2 Constitutional Provisions<br/>24.3 National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)<br/>24.4 National Health Mission (NHM)<br/>24.5 Major Initiatives under National Health Mission (NHM)<br/>24.6 Ayushman Bharat: National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM)<br/> <br/>25. Rural Sanitation and Cleanliness<br/>25.1 Sanitation: A Basic Need<br/>25.2 Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP)<br/>25.3 Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)<br/>25.4 Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA)<br/>25.5 Swachh Bharat Mission—Gramin (SBM-G)<br/>25.6 E-governance Initiatives for Sanitation in Rural Areas<br/>25.7 Clean Living Conditions<br/><br/>Bibliography<br/>Index |
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Agriculture in India was traditional and stagnant in every respect at the time of Independence in 1947. It was characterized by feudal land relations and primitive technology, resulting in low productivity per hectare of land. Consequently, rural India presented a picture of mass poverty and widespread unemployment and under-employment. Therefore, the first task of the government in the immediate post-Independence period was to initiate growth process in agriculture on modern lines. Modernization of agriculture was required both in terms of technological and institutional changes. Abolition of intermediaries in agriculture, namely zamindars and jagirdars, was accomplished soon after Independence.<br/><br/>Agricultural sector occupies a key position in the Indian economy. Agriculture (inclusive of animal husbandry, forestry and fishing) is central to the nutrition needs of India and also remains the largest sector of India’s economy as a source of employment.<br/><br/> Two major components of agricultural development strategy have been: (a) subsidies on inputs and (b) minimum support price for output.<br/><br/>In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, a countrywide lockdown was announced from March 25, 2020. Most of the economic activities came to a grinding halt in urban areas. However, rural India continued to be normal in view of the exemption from restrictions allowed to farmers to conduct farming operations, including harvesting and transporting their produce to grain markets with the general conditions of face covering, hand hygiene and social distancing. These exemptions helped to maintain continuity in supply chain, especially in view of harvesting and sowing season. Not only cultivation, but agriculture-related activities—plantation, horticulture, cattle breeding, fishing, and dairy farming—also remained, by and large, immune to COVID crisis, providing a silver lining in the otherwise gloomy scenario.<br/><br/> Government of India promulgated three ordinances on June 5, 2020 relating to agriculture. These ordinances were subsequently replaced by the following Acts of Parliament. (1) Farmers [Empowerment and Protection] Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 is a dedicated legislation to enable contract farming based on written agreements. (2) Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 liberates farmers by giving them the freedom to sell anywhere. (3) Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 has the objective of restricting the conditions on which the government can impose stock limit on agricultural produce. According to Economic Survey, 2020-21, “The reforms in the agricultural sector were more overdue than even the labour reforms as the existing laws kept the Indian farmer enslaved to the local mandi and their rent-seeking intermediaries”.<br/><br/> Rural development implies both the economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation. Increased participation of people in the rural development process, decentralisation of planning, better enforcement of land reforms and greater access to credit and inputs go a long way in providing the rural people with better prospects for improved quality of life. Improvements in housing, transport and communications, energy supply, health and education, water supply, and sanitation coupled with attitudinal changes are key elements of rural transformation.<br/><br/>Alleviation of rural poverty has been one of the primary objectives of planned development in India. Ever since the inception of planning, the policies and the programmes have been designed and redesigned with this aim. Progressive reduction of unemployment has been one of the principal objectives of economic planning in India. Hence, India’s poverty alleviation strategy has leaned towards wage employment programmes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).<br/><br/>The present book provides an exhaustive, descriptive and analytical account of policies and programmes for development of agriculture and rural areas in India since Independence in 1947. The book contains 25 chapters which have been organized into 2 parts.<br/><br/>Part I (chapters 1 to 15) is titled Agriculture and Allied Sectors. It provides glimpses of Indian agriculture during the British rule, role of agriculture in the Indian economy, recent legislative measures for agricultural sector, land reforms, agricultural inputs, agricultural marketing, plantation and horticulture, agricultural exports and imports, agriculture and information technology (IT), gender issues in agriculture, climate change and Indian agriculture and various other topics related to agriculture and allied activities.<br/><br/>Part II (chapters 16 to 25) is titled Rural Infrastructure and Development. It explains and examines rural industries, rural financial inclusion, MGNREGS, rural housing, rural transport and communications, rural electrification and water supply, rural health and sanitation and other topics related to rural development. |
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Agricultural development in India |
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Economics |
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