Information India : 1994-95 and 1995-96 Global View (Concepts in Communication Informatics and Librarianship-76)

by S. P. Agrawal, J. C. Aggarwal

Overview

The city of Calcutta, with its three million inhabitants, is a part of India's largest conurbation, Greater Calcutta, which has a population of some seven million. As a result of immigration from the rural areas of West Bengal and from other parts of India, as well as of massive influxes of refugees after the partition of Bengal in 1947 and the creation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Calcutta has had to grapple with particularly acute problems of urbanisation and employment, including a rate of unemployment estimated at about 15 per cent of the labour force in 1971 These problems are penetratingly discussed, with a wealth of supporting statistical and other evidence, in this study. The author explains some of the difficulties that exist. Especially revealing is his analysis of the varied composition of Calcutta's population and of the attitudes of different sections of it towards particular types of employment. Of special interest, too, is his argument that development of Calcutta's rural hinterland by modern argicultural methods can not only stem the drift from the surrounding countryside to the city but also increase opportunities for employment in Calcutta's already well developed engineering industries by creating a demand for agricultural equipment. This is the first of a proposed collection of ILO case studies of urbanisation and employment in selected cities in developing countries. The World Employment Programme (WEP) was launched by the International Labour Organisation in 1969, as the ILO's main contribution to the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. The means of action adopted by the WEP have included” the following : —short-term high-level advisory missions ; —longer-term national or regional employment teams; and —a wide-ranging research programme. Through these activities the ILO has been able to help national decision-makers to reshape their policies and plans with the aim of eradicating mass poverty and unemployment. A landmark in the development of the WEP was the World Employment Conference of 1976, which proclaimed inter alia that “strategies and national development plans should include as a priority objective the promotion of employment and the satisfaction of the basic needs of each country's population”. The Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action adopted by the Conference have become the cornerstone of WEP technical assistance and research activities during the closing years of the Second Development Decade. This publication is the outcome of a WEP project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354395642
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/1982
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	151
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

S.P. Agrawal (b. 1929) was Director, National Social Science Documentation Centre, ICSSR, and Member Secretary, Indian Association of Social Science Institutions. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Information Network in Social Sciences (APINESS). In 1988 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in' Education (honoris causa) by International University Foundation. Presently, he is Member, Round Table on Research in Reading, IFLA, and Member, International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation. He is also Member of Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministry of Energy, Department of Coal. He has written extensively on various aspects of education as well as of library and information science.

J.C. Aggarwal (b. 1928), former Deputy Director of Education/Executive Director of Delhi Bureau of Textbooks, Delhi Administration has a varied experience in the field of education. He has singly/jointly authored about 130 books on Education, Social Science and Current Problems. In collaboration with S.P. Agrawal, he has written Documentation Encyplopaedia of UNESCO and Education (in two parts), Women’s Education in India, National Policy on Education Agenda for India 2001, Indian Writings on Education 1979 to 1986, and Vocational Education in India. His other recent publications include: Yearbook of Indian Education, 1991 : World Overview; Ramamurti Report 1990 on National Policy on Education in India; and Survey of Education Documents in the World Since 1983, etc.

Date of Birth:

1913

Date of Death:

September 3, 2001