The Expert Group constituted by the Planning commission to examine issues related to groundwater management and ownership has made extensive recommendations tha need to be taken seriously. Most importantly it points to the urgency of addressing the issue of groundwater depletion. A quick review...

Pulses are major source of protein and an integral part to Indian's diet. But, there has been consistent demand-supply gap. Barring last 5 years, total production of pulses remained stagnant at 12-14 million tonnes over past five decades. Over the last 20 years, more than 550 improved varieties...

The fiscal mess that the Canadian Federal Government got into, following large-scale increase in the fiscal deficits and debt burden resulted in corrective measures since 1984. Introduction of "Spending Control Act" in 1991 and its effective implementation upto 1996 aided in deficit reduction....

Not many authors have analysed the economic history of Karnataka and rarely do we find any systematic account of agriculture in the available historical material. Dr. Francis Buchanan’s travelogue provides excellent material for this. Dr. Buchanan traveled through the Mysore State after the...

Grassroots participatory institutional structures in decentralized administrative educational reforms are intended to promote greater accountability of the school system to the community. This paper looks at the structural composition and functions of one such participatory institutional...

It is proposed in this paper to examine the relationship between decentralised governance and people’s participation from empirical evidence. The present paper considers people’s participation as an important condition internal to decentralised governance. The study reveals that block...