Alternative Planning

There has been an increasing realisation in recent years of the need to look carefully for an alternative paradigm of development. This realisation is based on increasing evidence that existing policies, programmes and priorities have…

Six out of seven districts of Bundelkhand region (Uttar Pradesh) are already included in the list of hundred poorest districts. Several hundred poverty-related deaths, including suicides and hunger deaths, have been reported in recent years….

Bundelkhand has adequate water resources, good farmland and rich mineral wealth. Then why is its people so poor, why do they have to migrate so much in search of livelihood and why do they face…