Dimensions of Social Issues in India\'s North-East : Selections on Youth, Drugs, Education and Unemployment

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. 1. Introduction. 2. Relationship between the drug related personal characteristic of addict and socio-cultural and economic factors/S. Romeobala Devi. 3. KABP studies on safer practices of injecting drug among the IDU\'s Manipur/K. Ingocha Singh. 4. Gender relation and its health implication among women: Manipur case/Jubita Hajarimayum. 5. Drug use and the need for social advocacy among adolescents/Salam Irene. 6. A perspective on drug abuse amongst youths in Manipur/Chitra Ahanthem. 7. Drug-Abuse: Issues for development/E. Bijoy Kumar Singh. 8. Youth, drug and development: spading linkages/H. Sudhir. 9. Opium and heroin production in Myanmar and its impact in the neighbouring countries/L. Suresh. 10. Unemployment in Manipur: some policy implications/Gurudas Das and K. Gyanendra Singh. 11. Entrepreneurship education and training: It\'s role in solving unemployment problems in Manipur/G.P. Prasain. 12. Employment opportunities in North East India/Indraneel Bhowmik. 13. Youth unrest in Manipur/Pradip Phanjoubam. Appendix: Some parameters of development in North-east. Bibliography. Index.

"The current volume addresses various multi-faceted dimensions of some selected social issues confronting the northeast region with a specific thrust on the state of Manipur. This is a step into the task of exploring the problems, which have largely loomed over the region particularly the youth related issues of drugs, education and unemployment and their impact on the overall development question. The work sojourns to provide a broad glimpse of these problems by way of shedding light on the various dimensional issues which include extent, dynamics, trend, casual factors, impact, national and state responses, role of civil society, interrelations with the region\'s development index and suggested alternative strategies that could pragmatically respond the problems on development perspective. This work will certainly be of help for policy framers, social scientists, academicians, researchers and various agencies towards a creative understanding of this situation of the region." (jacket)