NON-FARM SECTOR AND RURAL TRANSFORMATION Editors ANIL KUMAR THAKUR S.M. JAWED AKHTAR Published on behalf of THE INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IDE DEEP & DEEP PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD. F-159, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi-110 027
Contents Preface List of Contributors xi xiii 1. Mausumi Datta Biswas and Dipt\Prakas Pal Non-Farm Sector and Transformation of India's Rural Economy : An Analysis of Diversification 1 2. Pinaki Das and Sachinandan Sau Role of Rural Non-Farm Sector in Income Generation and Poverty Alleviation in Rural India 20 3. Jayanta Sen Rural Non-farm Employment and Levels of Living : A State-wise Analysis in India in the Era of Economic Reforms 39 4. K.J.S. Satyasai Promoting Rural Non-Farm Sector (RNFS) under Multi-Stakeholder Environment 59 5. Ranjan Kumar Sinha, Rajesh Kumar Mishra and S.D. Mishra Rural Non-Farm Employment in Bihar 76
vi Non-Farm Sector and Rural Transformation 6. D. Pulla Rao Gender Discrimination in Rural Non-Farm Employment in India 93 7. J.B. Komaraiah and Vikas Singh Employment Generation Through Rural Non-Farm Sector in India : Challenges and Opportunities 104 8. Anupama Rural Non-Farm Sector in India : The Role of Unorganised Manufacturing Sector 118 9. Hansa Jain Growth of Rural Non-Farm Sector and Seasonal Migrants : An Analysis of Rural-Urban Migration 138 10. Jasdeep Singh Toor and H.S. Sidhu Rural Non-Farm Employment in Punjab 152 11. Tarak Nath Roy Problems of Rural Non-agricultural Workers : A Case Study in West Bengal 176 12. Arvind Awasthi Rural Non-Farm Employment and Poverty Reduction : An All-India and State Level Analysis 194 13. Dilip Kumar Rana Rural Development : The Vision from the Employment Generation in Non-farm Economy 212 14. Sudhakar Patra Non-Farm Sector Employment in India and Orissa. 225 15. Rajiv Khosla, H.S. Sidhu and Sharanjit S. Dhillon Production Linkages Between Agriculture and Non-Agriculture Sectors in India 237
Contents vii 16. Dhananjaya K.B. and Prashanth R. Desai Rural Tourism and Rural Development in India 281 17. D. Rajasekhar Non-Farm Sector and Rural Development 292 18. M. Giribabu Changing the Structure of Rural Employment and the Growth of Non-Farm Sector in India 309 19. N.C. Jha and M.C. Jha Growth and Role of Non-Farm Sector in the Development of Bihar in the Era of Economic Reforms : (A Comparative Analysis) 332 20. Puma Chandra Mishra and Mamata Panda Rural Non-Farm Employment in India and Rural Development : Ways Ahead 355 21. Richa Rastogi, Vishal Singh and /. Narayan Role and Importance of Non-farm Sector in Employment Generation in Rural India and MGNREGA 377 22. K. Pazhani Role of Non-Farm Sector in Rural Development 396 23. T.P. Singh and Premlata Kumari Role of Watershed Management in Sustainable Agriculture Development in India 408 24. Ravi Ranjan and Yogendra Kumar Role of Non-Farm Sector in Promoting Employment Opportunities among Male and Female during Post-reform Period 419 25. Kishore Kumar Roy Choudhury Importance of Rural Development and Current Scenario with Limitation of Farm Sector 430
yiii Non-Farm Sector and Rural Transformation 26. Atvir Singh, Tejveer Singh and Nidhi MGNREGA and Rural Development : A Case Study of Sardhna Block in Meerut 438 27. Deepa Rawat and Deepti Role of Organized Retail Trading in Rural Development of India 452 28. K. Pazhani Rural Non-Farm Sector : Linkages of Employment and Poverty in India 472 29. Suman Radhika and Hemlata Jha Non-Farm Growth and Rural Employment 499 30. Ram Pravesh Singh, Raghwendra Kumar Singh and Gopal Kumar Singh Dynamics of Rural Non-farm Employment (RNFE). in Bihar 516 31. Debes Mukhopadayay Linking Growth between Farm and Non-farm Sectors : The Roadmap for Re-Agrarianization 523 32. Pranay Kumar Roy Borman Role of Non-farm Sector in Reducing Rural Un-Employment 537 33. Rekha Ramesh Gaonkar and Elizabeth Joey Henriques Role of Non-Government Organizations in Rural Development 547 34. Shailesh Kumar and Ratnesh Kumar Food Processing : A Growth-oriented Evergreen Industry in the Non-farm Sector as a Powerful Engine of a Rural Development in India 561 35. Md. Abdus Salam and Md. Fakhre Alam Poverty, Health and Health Expenditure in India : An Inter-Relationship 571
Contents ix 36. Bharti Pandey and A.P. Tiivari Rural Non-Farm Employment : Some Analytics and Empirics 596 37. Shalini Yadav Rural Non-Farm Sector Development : Cluster Approach 615 38. B.K. Thakur, Brajesh Kumar Choudhary and N.N. Yadav. _. Non-farm Sector and Rural Development : (A Study in the Context of Backward Economy of Jharkhand) 624 39. S.M. Jawed Akhtar, N.P. Abdul Azeez, Md. Masroor Alam and Nahid Akhtar Siddiqi Rural Women Empowerment through MGNREGS in the State of Kerala 637 Index 652