About the Book: Social Development in India (Women and Child Development), Vol.
5
The term social development has come to acquire a very important and new
salience in the literature and practice of development. in India visionaries,
social reformers and leaders of Indias independence movement propounded a wider
concept of social development. This encyclopaedia analyses social development in
India with a macroperspective, in relation to programmes initiated under the
Five Year Plans. It examines Rural Development, Population and Family Planning;
Poverty Alleviation; Poverty Monitoring of India; Women and Child Development;
Globalisa-tion and Womens Economic Advancement; Literacy and Education and
Ecology; Environment and Sustainable Development
About the Author: Ramesh Chandra
Prof. Ramesh