New Approaches to Rural Development is a comprehensive volume tracing the genesis and evolution of rural development programme in India focusing on objectives, ideology, concepts, philosophy and methods of initiating development activities in rural communities. It emphasizes the need for understanding the structure and nature of rural communities and the way to plan, organize, introduce and manage developmental programmes. The book in detail spells out the practical approaches aiming at economic development, democratic growth and social justice. In a world, it very clearly expounds the various facets of rural development. Chapter 11 in the book could be taken as the comprehensive backbone of the book which describes varying existing conditions and the needs pertaining to different areas of development and the way to go about ameliorating the living conditions of the people in the rural areas. And further, A Model for Securing People's Participation in Rural Development may be singled out as a scientific approach in securing people's participation which is an indispensable factor for any development activity concerning people.

Rural development is a generic concept, subsuming several fields of development that fall under economic development, democratic growth and social justice. There have been several scores of books on this subject. The present volume emphasizing clinical approach spells out the significant factors that the planner, the organizer, the administrator and the field worker has to take care of and be sensitive in understanding people, their needs and problems and working with them for their advancement and welfare. There is no straight highway to rural development. Depending upon the ethnicity and subculture within the fold of Indian ethos, one may have to charter in multiple ways, but may remember and apply the clinical approach irrespective of the programmes focused upon.

The planners, administrators, organizers and field workers, the teaching and the training community concerned with the working in the field of rural development would find this volume interesting and useful.

Local Government-Rural and Urban as a paper is being taught at the graduate and post-graduate level in Public Administration syllabus in almost all the Indian Universities. The various courses conducted by Public Administration institutions at the Central and State level too have been considered in respect of their syllabus, course contents and requirements. Thus the material presented here would be of interest as well as great use to the students of Public Administration. This book has been especially designed for UGC-NET/SLET Examination, M.A. (Public Administration), and other competitive examinations by UPSC and Public Service Commission of various States.

The major topics dealt in this book are-Meaning, Nature and Scope of Local Governments; Major Features and Structures of Local Government in India, U.K., U.S.A. and France; 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments in India; Functions and Role of Local Governments in India; State Local Relations in India etc.

The present book focuses on the perspective of development economics in the context of socio-economic development and role of banking institutions in the hill districts under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India. The present treatise focuses attention on land ownership pattern, banking and other institutional credit in rural sector, prevailing banking structure, implications of rural banking on development of two hill districts, service area approach of commercial banks, flow of credit to hill agriculture and allied activities at block level and district level, horizontal and vertical co-ordination among District Rural Development Agency, banking institutions and the connected implementing agencies. Besides, it also highlights the constraints of development in hill districts, potential ways and means of overcoming them besides push and pull factors, forward and backward linkages in development and voluntary agencies.

The study embodies the measuring scale of development in hill areas, peculiar problems of development, development functions discharged by Autonomous District Council, the role played by Longpi Dehangi Rural Bank, Large Size Multi-purpose Co-operative Societies in Furtherance of Finance portfolio for socio-economic development, feasibility analysis, critically analysis, sensitivity analysis for evaluating rural development projects, area approach in rural banking, grain bank, role and magnitude of small savings in furtherance of economic development over the hill districts.

It has also covered the discussion on implication of loan waiver clause on rural banking, role played by indigenous economic and social institutions, social customs and traditions bearing on development, villages adopted by DRDA, apart from extending suggestions for over-coming the constraints to usher a new era of development with justice and equity.