Tamilnadu is one of the progressive & largest states in India. Large chunk of population is engaged in agriculture activities. The state rural population faces scarcity of water, more particularly for irrigation. To overcome this, the state government with assistance of World Bank and other...

Fragile States are ultimately composed of weak population; the reasons thereof may be natural, physical, political, social or otherwise. Improvement of the situation on sustainable basis is possible if the population, more particular at bottom get out of such weakness/es. Unless population does...

To eradicate extreme poverty requires participation of people. Identifying poor population and making them employable is essential to eradicate poverty. Economic growth is important to eradicate poverty; equitable wealth distribution is sine-qua-non to sustainable development. This chapter...