Drought, Policy and Politics in India
The Need for a Long-Term Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 1993
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-0-8039-9122-4 (ISBN)
Description
Adopting and ecological perspective, this book is a study of public policy on drought management in India. The authors argue that policy-makers have assumed drought to be a consequence of exclusively natural factors and, because of this, the planning process has been short-sighted and concerned with drought mitigation through relief, rather than with longer-term measures of drought-proofing. The book details the administrative and financial arrangements for drought mitigation in India and highlights the politics of policy-making, showing how the sanctioning of relief expenditure is often politically motivated.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9122-4 (9780803991224)
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Persons
Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, and is also Director of the Ford Foundation project 'Dialogue on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia'. Her current research interests include gender and governance, ethnic inequality and the governance of public institutions, and environmental political theory. Among her previous publications are Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (1999); Drought, Policy and Politics in India (1993, co-authored); Democracy in India (2001, edited); and Democratic Governance in India: Challenges of Poverty, Development, and Identity (2001, co-edited with Sudha Pai).
Content
Introduction
Drought in the Long-Term Perspective
Evolution of Policy
Financing of Relief Expenditure and Related Administrative Procedures
Rajasthan
Drought Proofing, Drought Relief and Political Concerns of Electoral Candidates
Participation and Representation in Parliament
Perspectives on Drought in Parliament
Concluding Remarks
Drought in the Long-Term Perspective
Evolution of Policy
Financing of Relief Expenditure and Related Administrative Procedures
Rajasthan
Drought Proofing, Drought Relief and Political Concerns of Electoral Candidates
Participation and Representation in Parliament
Perspectives on Drought in Parliament
Concluding Remarks