Mainstream Weekly

Inclusive Development: Relevance of Socio-Political Factors

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2018-12-02T11:25:02Z

Rising inequalities in wealth and income lead to unequal access to power, status and influence. Democracies may be less prone to such state capture than dictatorships but even democracies have proved to be vulnerable to pressures from the powerful private interests, particularly when the prevailing social structure is inequitable, as in India.
Policy-analyses, worldwide, highlight rising income inequalities as the foremost concern today. Recent OECD evidence based on a sample of 15 (…)

- 2018

Governance, Resources and Livelihoods of Adivasis in India

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2016-12-26T12:05:02Z

The following is the author's valedictory address at the National Seminar on ‘Governance, Resouruces and Livelihoods of Advasis in India: Implementation of PESA and FRA', organised by the S.R. Sankaran Chair at the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, November 19, 2016.
The Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996—applicable to Schedule V areas in 10 States—empowers Gram Sabhas to manage forest lands and community resources, including (…)

- 2016

Dynamics of Rural Labour Markets in India: Recent Trends and Policy Concerns

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2016-03-20T22:55:00Z

The following is the author's inaugural address at the National Seminar on ‘Dynamics of Rural Labour Relations/Markets in India: Issues, Dimensions and Processes', S.R. Sankaran Chair (Rural Labour), National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad, March 10-12, 2016.
As pointed out in the background note for this seminar by the S.R. Sankaran Chair at the NIRD&PR, the ongoing structural changes in the Indian economy are leading to significant changes in the rural (…)

- 2016

Major Development Challenges facing the Telangana State

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2015-06-05T22:43:47Z

It is a privilege for me to get this opportunity for meeting and interacting with the first elected representatives of the Telangana State. After its creation as a separate State, Telangana is better placed in several respects. It has the usual advantages of viability of a smaller State in terms of area and population as well as relative homogeneity of its history and culture. There is a predominance of weaker sections in the State—BCs, SCs, STs, and minorities together constituting nearly (…)

- 2015

Some Major Issues related to Adivasis

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2015-02-23T20:05:44Z

1. Major Issues
The socio-economic condition of the Adivasis as the most marginalised section of our society has been extensively documented. I do not propose to describe their condition again. I would rather like to straightaway raise three major issues for policy-action and further research: First, the restoration, to the extent possible, and protection of the existing land and other natural resource base of the Adivasis; second, the prospects of raising agricultural productivity which (…)

- 2015

Marginalised Groups and Inclusive Growth

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2014-09-13T20:31:44Z

The Concept of Inclusive Growth
The concept of inclusive growth, as stated in the 12th Plan document, focuses on the growth process that is broad-based or in which wider sections of the population, especially those hitherto excluded, participate. This implies, among other things, stepping up the GDP growth rate in the slow growing or less developed regions through the development of infrastructure; greater priority to agriculture which contributes to food security and provides livelihood (…)

- 2014

Political Empowerment of Telangana

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2012-02-19T18:01:06Z

KEY LESSON FROM ENCOURAGING PERFORMANCE OF SMALLER STATES
1. Introduction
Achieving economic growth with social justice has always been the foremost objective of economic planning in India since independence. Although the achievements in this respect have been substantial, the growth achieved was much slower than planned and reduction of poverty was also slow. It was after the launching of economic reforms in the early 1990s that the growth rate of the economy accelerated, but the (…)

- 2012

Professor K. Jayashankar: A Tribute

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2011-07-10T17:02:51Z

With the passing away of Professor K. Jayashankar on June 21, the movement for the formation of Telangana State has lost the foremost academic and intellectual actively working for this cause for over half-a-century. The void created by his demise cannot be filled except by imparting to the whole movement the values he embodied: a firm commitment to the cause of separate Statehood combined with a highly informed and reasoned approach to the many issues faced by the movement.
In many (…)

- 2011

Justice Srikrishna Committee Report and Statehood for Telangana

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2011-04-08T19:07:37Z

No one from Telangana asked for the appointment of the Srikrishna Committee. The Centre perhaps wanted to buy time after there was severe opposition from the influential and vocal sections of Seemandhra to the announcement of its decision on December 9, 2009 to initiate the process of the formation of Telangana State.
But once the Committee was constituted, there was widespread curiosity within the country and abroad to know the findings of an expert and impartial committee headed by a (…)

- 2011

Statehood for Telangana: The Current Stalemate

C.H. Hanumantha Rao — 2010-02-18T17:52:50Z

The following article has been sent by the author for publication in this journal for the benefit of its readers. He is a follow-up to his earlier article, “Regional Disparities, Smaller States and Statehood for Telangana”, published in Mainstream (March 7, 2009).
The newly created smaller States, namely, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, have achieved much higher growth rates in their GSDP than the targets set for the Tenth Five Year Plan, whereas the growth rates achieved by their (…)

- 2010