Rural Education and Technology

Contents: Preface. I. Rural Education: 1. Rural education: issues and initiatives/Anant Mital. 2. Free and compulsory education: challenges for rural areas/Nalini Juneja. 3. Education of girls: building bridges for future/Sandeep Kumar. 4. Backward and forward linkages strengthen primary education/Vimala Ramachandran. 5. Panchayati Raj and education in rural areas/Ajit Kumar. 6. Dropout problem among tribal students at school level/B.R. Kukreti and Manoj Kumar Saxena. 7. Tribal education in India/P.K. Mohanty. 8. Impact of shifting cultivation on primary education/Madhusudan J.V. 9. Status of tribal education/K. Raja Mohan Rao and S. Vaidehi. 10. Evolvement of district information system for education/Arun C. Mehta. 11. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan/D.K. Padhi. 12. Shifting cultivation and its affect on primary education/Madhusudan J.V. 13. Primary education in rural areas/S. Rajakutty. 14. Linkage between education and business institutions/T.R. Gurumoorthy. 15. Resource education/Anil P. Joshi. 16. Basic education for rural areas/V.S. Gupta. 17. Rural education for social change/Navin Chandra Joshi. 18. Education problems and reforms/S.M. Rafique. 19. Impact of adult education on development in  India/S.Y. Shah. 20. Science literacy for a changing future/Narottam Sahoo. 21. Making economic sense of Indian science/R.A. Mashelkar. 22. Publishing exam results on the net/Neeta Verma and M. Kamlakkannan. 23. Universalization of education: a challenge/Vijay Kulkarni. 24. India as a knowledge society/K. Venkatasubramanian. 25. Education and policies for physically challenged/Prashant Ranjan Dutt. 26. Education for youth in the global society/Karan Singh. 27. Vocational education for development of rural India/M.M. Luther. 28. Open learning in the context of globalisation/M.M. Ansari. 29. Peace education/S.K. Yerankar. 30. Return to innocence value-education in the post-modern age/Saswat S. Das. 31. Educational institutions and human values/Bharat Singh Negi. II. Rural Technologies: 32. Role of science and technology in sustainable development/R. Dayanandan. 33. Krishi Vigyan Kendras: Grass root endeavours in transfer of technology/Nisha Aravind and D. Rakhesh. 34. Rural renaissance through rural technologies/Bharat R. Sant. 35. Rural empowerment through decentralized technology/Anil P. Joshi. 36. National agricultural technology project: transcending 'technology gap'/Aditya Keshari Mishra. 37. Institutional linkages for Micro-enterprises development/N. Mohanan and V. Kulandaiswamy. 38. Technology development and transfer in mountain areas/Sunil K. Agarwal. 39. Expert system: an effective tool for technology transfer/S.C. Sharma and B.L. Dhaka. III. Biotechnology in rural India: 40. Biotechnology in India - A bird's eye view/S. Natesh. 41. Biotechnology: new technology for rural transformation/Gursharan Singh Kainth. 42. Patents in biotechnology/V. Lakshmikumaran. 43. Fingerprinting of a different kind: CDFD in service of mankind/Swatantra Radhakrishnan. 44. Biotechnology industry and its future role in Indian economy/Swami Prakash Srivastava. 45. Biotechnology in erosion control and slope stabilization/R.K. Khitoliya. 46. Building global excellence through scientist entrepreneurs/Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. 47. Biotechnology and intellectual property rights/J.P. Mishra. Index.

"Education in rural areas, despite being promoted on a grand scale by the government, still struggles for survival. Increase in drop-out rate, decrease in enrolment rate, lack of infrastructural facilities, indifferent attitude of teachers towards students and vague understanding of the benefits of education among the parents of rural children are some of the major ills plaguing educational scenario in rural areas. One of the biggest problems facing the spread of education in deprived areas is the timely release of funds from the government. Community participation in education in rural areas not only ensures physical and human facilities at schools but also motivates the teachers to achieve higher quality of education. Self-reliant technology can promote participation of the people which in particular can benefit the economy and society in many ways. Therefore, the technology aiming at production by masses, generation of employment and earlier handling of tools is relevant for rural areas." (jacket)