Inclusive Policies and Removal of Social Disadvantage

Contents: Preface. 1. Inter state social sector expenditure and economic reforms in India/Achal Kumar Gaur. 2. Multidimensional analysis of social exclusion with reference to disability and gender/Manasi Vilas Gore and Rupa Kaustubh Korde. 3. Financial inclusion and commercial banks: a bilateral comparison model/Ram Pratap Sinha. 4. Irrigation management and inclusive growth: AKRSP (India)\'s intervention in Gujarat/Jyotirmayee Acharya. 5. Women exclusion in Indian society: need for an inclusive strategy/Bibekanada Nayak. 6. Remote village electrification through bio fuel route with local participation: an effort to combat exclusion/Atreyee Sinha Chakraborty. 7. Education for the dynamics of social inclusion/Sharat R. Kulkarni and Sharwari S. Kulkarni. 8. Socially excluded people: constitutional safeguards and role of Indian judiciary/D.M. Walekar and I.S. Vidyasagar. 9. Making sense of local: towards in inclusive rural development/Shibsankar Jena. 10. Joint forest management and rural development in Jharkhand/Manish Tiwari. 11. Educational exclusion and inclusive practices in higher education of India/Dhaneswar Bhoi. 12. Globalization: impact on rural labor sector in India and implications for the poor sections/Kiritiraj D.C. 13. Health and demographic perspectives/Sunitha. 14. Relevance of social inclusion and exclusion/Patil Vijay R. 15. Doing away the violence of exclusion: the test of Indian Democracy in the New Millennium/Shruti Tambe. 16. On the margins of the excluded: denotified communities in contemporary society/Sanjay Kolekar.

Conventionally, economists have identified well-being with market command over goods rather than with the "state" of a person. The present volume goes precisely beyond the traditional concepts of consumption, income or wealth and offers a broad, inclusive view of inequality, discrimination and well-being. Themes mainly centers round the premises of capabilities and inequalities, discrimination and segregation in the labour market, quality of opportunities, globalization and inequality, human development and the quality of life and development, discrimination in health and education, problems of poverty among children and elderly people.

The book "Inclusive Policies and Removal of Socially Disadvantaged" contains 16 well written papers, endeavours to examine the multi-dimensional aspects of discrimination and exclusion of Dalits, tribes, nomads, women and minorities and mainly provides some policy measures to tackle the problems.