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Sanitation Strategies in Karnataka: A Review

Veerashekarappa; Bhide, Shashanka - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2009

Because of lack of proper sanitation, communicable diseases spread causing considerable loss and disabilities to human … resources. Considering this, the international community has set the provision of sanitation as part of the Millennium … Development Goals, aiming to reduce the number of those without adequate sanitation facilities to half by the year 2015. To …

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Water in India: Situation and Prospects

Prakash, Anjal; Sharma, Medhavi; Chourey, Jayati - eSocialSciences - 2013

This report attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of water resource development and management in India, based on secondary information. It maps the current challenges and suggests feasible alternatives amidst increasing water scarcity and disenfranchisement of resource bases...

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Towards Building A Happy, Prosperous and Caring Bangladesh: Budget Speech 2011-12

Muhith, Abul Maal Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2012

Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].

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Inter-State Imbalances in Essential Services: Some Perspectives

Srivastava, D K; Rao, C Bhujanga - eSocialSciences - 2011

family welfare, and water supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses two principal indicators namely the per …

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Book Review:Toilet Reading

Schroeder, Katie - eSocialSciences - 2011

Review of: The Culture of Flushing: A Social And Legal History of Sewage Jamie Benidickson. UBC Press,Vancouver, 2007. xxiv + 404 pp. $93.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-1291-7; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-1292-4.

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Will Neoliberal Policies Resolve Water Sector Dilemmas? Learnings from Maharashtra and Gujarat

K, Viswanathan P - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the paper tries to engage with three questions: a) what are the national and state-level responses...

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Health Education

Dube, Nandini - eSocialSciences - 2012

There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...

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Brand India: No Equity for Children

HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2011

India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as â€œBrand Indiaâ€ which has the tenth highest GDP in the world. Even while the country is...

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Minimal Visible Inequality is Human Development

Rao, Bhanoji - eSocialSciences - 2006

The urgent task ahead is the reduction of the visible inequalities in education, health and housing, thus contributing to a broad based evolution of human capabilities. As for the macroeconomic environment to assist in the cashing in of the capabilities, the higher level of equality in...

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Community Participation in Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation: A Case Study of Karnataka

Veerashekharappa - Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) - 2001

Providing safe drinking water and sanitation to the rural community is the sole responsibility of state. However, with …

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