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Village Development Boards (VDBs) in Nagaland

G, Karmakar K; D, Banerjee G - eSocialSciences - 2009

The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are …

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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].

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Location Identification for Rapid Evacuation from a Disaster Site: A Case Study from KAPS

Roy, Debjit; Sharma, Anuj - eSocialSciences - 2014

affected area for our purposes, data on various aspects like distance of each village from the radiation source, its road … each village and its respective rallying post while providing the detailed evacuation route for each village. A resource … optimizing heuristic is proposed to allocate transportation resources to each village. …

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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu

Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013

Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb rural urban migration? [CCS Working Paper No. 202].

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Manual for Integrated District Planning: Report of the Task Force of the Planning Commission

Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2014

This manual is a step by step guide to district planning which will assist planners at the local, district and State levels. District planning, by taking into account resources locally available, infrastructure status and gaps, the aims and vision of the local people and weighing options of lead...

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Labour Migration and Remittances in Uttarakhand

Jain, Anmol - eSocialSciences - 2012

The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed. The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in relation to poverty, development, and gender are studied. The study focused on the hill state of...

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Does the System of Rice Intensification Outperform Conventional System? A Case Study of Gujarat

Pathak, Jharna - eSocialSciences - 2011

The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers about the SRI technique as also of agricultural extension services in general. [Working Paper...

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Research Study on Role of Tribal Women Wage Earner in Ensuring Family Food Security in Scheduled Areas of Rajasthan in Changing Environmental and Economic Scenario

Jaipur, Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan - eSocialSciences - 2011

conducted in these villages included one questionnaire for village information and another questionnaire for selected 20 women … from each village were quarried for various type of information. Thus 2500 households from 125 villages were selected and …

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Final Report on the Functioning of Anganwadi Centres in Assam and Meghalya

eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2011

village development committees. Random sampling of the AWCs was also carried out to assess the capacity of the AWW and AWH to …

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Objects and Accomplishments of Participatory Irrigation Management Programme in India: An Open Pair of Scissors

Parthasarathy, R - eSocialSciences - 2011

Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five years now. Though it is recognized that the government should no longer be in the business of retailing water to individual consumer, the PIM policy...

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