symposium participants

  • The Problem
    Posed by V.B. Eswaran, Chairman, The Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, Delhi

  • REHABILITATING DEGRADED LANDS
    N.C.Saxena, IAS; Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India

  • WASTELANDS AND COMMON PROPERTY LAND RESOURCES
    Kanchan Chopra, Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

  • EMPOWERING AGRARIAN SOCIETY
    Ajay S. Mehta, General Secretary, Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development, Delhi

  • COMMUNITY CONTROL
    S.R. Hiremath, Coordinator, Samaj Parivartana Samudaya, and President, Mational Committee for Protection of Natural Resources, Dharwad, Karnataka

  • ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
    M.V. Nadkarni, Vice Chancellor, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga; was earlier Professor and Head of the Ecological Economics Unit, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

  • THE GUJARAT EXPERIENCE
    Sudarshan Iyengar, Director, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

#499 
March 2001


WASTELANDS
a symposium on regenerating
our degraded land resources


March 2001

cover design by Akila Seshasayee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • ON SIGHT - AND INSIGHT
    Mohan Kanda, IAS; Additional Secretary, Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, GOI, Delhi

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Ashwini Chhatre, Seema Bhatt, Hrinmay Dhar, Ratna M. Sudarshan and Sailendra Nath Ghosh

  • FURTHER READING
    Compiled by The Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development, Delhi 

  • COMMENTS
    Received from Sailendra Nath Ghosh,  environmentalist, Delhi; K.S. Dhillon, former Director General of Police, Punjab; and Prema Gopalan, Director, Swayam Shikshan Prayog, Mumbai 

  • IN MEMORIAM
    Indrajit Gupta, 1919 - 2001

  • COMMUNICATION
    Received from R. P. Singh, Assistant Professor, Government College, L.B. Nagar, Chhatisgarh; and Ashutosh Kumar, Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh 

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