The present study has made attempt to examine the historical trends in the power and its impact on the state economy and to explore the scope for enhancing its generation capacity in the state

Strategies and solutions to meet the challenges of GHGs call for new methods and technologies. Potential options for the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing rice production in a physically sustainable manner are attracting...

The presented study examines the level and pattern of development in the conflict particularly Naxal afflicted areas/regions. A case of Warangal District in Andhra Pradesh which has been the most affected district in India by the Naxal movement and its violence, is considered for the study.

The present paper examines the changes in work participation rates, participation rate in education and the growth of employment, and explores the prospects of employment growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh (India) in the scenario of declining population growth which acts as a limiting factors...

The present paper reviews the different methods in practice to measure the human development or deprivation, which, in fact, is an emerging part of the development discourse. Specifically it deals with the problems of comparability, aggregation and weighing the dimension/indicators in composite...

Given the negative effects of regional imbalance or disparities owing to concentration of growth oriented activities / industry / business processes in specific urban growth centres especially in and around metropolitan cities, it is need of the hour to plan for managing a regionally balanced...

While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or state level) always conceals the geographical spread across sub-regions, and therefore ignores regional disparities. The laggard regions always bring down the overall performance...

The present study is to examine the state of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) in terms of their socio-economic conditions. About one third of the Indian population belong to SC and ST social category and they have been considered as the most deprivation sections of the society. How...

The objective of this paper is to present the district levels analysis of rural infrastructure base with respect to connectivity of villages and availability of basic amenities in these villages across districts in Andhra Pradesh.

Most of the impact studies related to mid-day meal scheme have been primary survey based and restricted to particularly locality/region/school but unable to give whole state or India level picture of beneficiaries. In this context the present paper examines the performance of mid-day meal/noon...