Essays on Health Education and Women Empowerment in India

Contents: 1. Health system responsiveness of the migrants people living in slum areas: a study of Jaipur City/Shatabdi Bagehi, Ambalika Sinha and Ravindra Tripathi. 2. Who, why and how: an assessment of informal service provision in sundarbans, India/Debjani Barman and Arnab Mandal. 3. Education of the deaf children/Gargee Basu. 4. Slums and associated problems- a case study on a slum of Baranagar municipality/Kaustuva Banerjee. 5. Guarantee of 100 days work under NREGA: a violation of human rights and wrongs step of drainage of public money/Harasankar Adhikari. 6. Government programmes: a critical analysis in a market economy/Amit Banerjee. 7. NGO and CSR partnership in rural development- an analysis of their scope and challenges/Sudeshna Saha and Neelmani Jaysawal. 8. SHGs are the path towards an inclusive, self reliant and sustainable society/Sagarika Saha. 9. Farm women's access to credit institutions: a study among the farm women in Bolpur Sub-division/Suparna Bose and Sarthak Chowdhury. 10. Value addition of indian agriculture during pre and post reform periods: contribution of domestic use and foreign trade/Tushar Das. 11. From 'Filthy' to 'Filted'? british 'Sanitization' Propaganda in Colonial Malabar/Mamatha K. 12. Measuring under nutrition-using the compoitie index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) among preschool children of Birbhum, West Bengal, India/Saikat Majumdar. 13. ICT- Enabled entrepreneurship and private sector development in India/Harinam Singh. 14. Migration and livelihood development in rural perspective of Jharkhand: an evidence based cross sectional analysis/Ashoke Gorain. 15. Implementation and experimentation ideas in development of rural India: an introduction to neo-liberalism and Tagore/Sashi Sekhar Biswal. 16. Self help group: a status of the largest block of Siliguri Sub-division under Darjeeling district/Urbi Ghosh.

The sixteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation of Jharkhand, Kerala and West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education in handicapped , SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration  etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India.