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Organised by
Dr. V. DivyathejomurthySeminar Director
Department of Rural DevelopmentAcharya Nagarjuna University
Nagarjuna Nagar - 522 510. Guntur, A.P. INDIA
About the UniversityAcharya Nagarjuna University, named
after Acharya Nagarjuna, the founder ofthe Madhyamaka path of Budhism was established in1976. It is one of the major universities in the countrycovering many colleges and institutes of Guntur andPrakasam districts in the region. It is located inNagarjuna Nagar, on the northern part of Guntur city,a major centre for learning in the state of AndhraPradesh. The university maintains its P.G Centre atOngole, the headquarters of Prakasam District.
About the DepartmentRural Development is one of the major
departments of Acharya Nagarjuna University cateringto the academic needs of post-graduate students withrural background in the vicinity of Guntur andPrakasam districts. The department started functioningfrom 1992, focussing on teaching and researchprogrammes leading to the award of Ph.D. and M.Phildegrees. The department has the distinction oforganising 2 International and 17 National level seminarsso far.
Call for PapersAbstract of the paper not exceeding 500 words
may be submitted in both soft and hard copies on orbefore 25 January, 2016 and full papers not exceeding15 pages (A4 size in MS Word 12 Font) may besubmitted on or before 8th February 2016 to theSeminar Director, Department of Rural Development,Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur – 522 510, AndhraPradesh.One author of the selected papers for presentation atthe seminar will be paid sleeper class train charges.
RegistrationAll Participants should send full paper along with
registration fee Rs 500/- through Demand Draft drawnon State Bank of India, Nagarjuna University Branch,Nagarjuna Nagar in favour of Director, UGC National
Seminar, Department of Rural Development, AcharyaNagarjuna University, Nagrajuna Nagar.Hospitality
Moderate accommodation and local hospitality willbe provided to the delegates/participants during theseminar.
Places of tourist importance aroundAmaravathi, the abode of Lord Amareswara and
the capital of new state of Andhra Pradesh, is 25 kmfrom Guntur, Goddess Kanaka Durga Temple inVijayawada is 20 km from the University and Lord LakshmiNarasimha temple in Mangalagiri is 8 km from theUniversity.
Location of Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityTwin cities i.e., Guntur and Vijayawada are well
connected by road and rail network from Hyderabad,Visakapatnam, Chennai and Bangalore cities. AcharyaNagarjuna University is located on the National HighWay 5 connecting (10 kms from) Guntur and (20 kmsto) Vijayawada cities. APSRTC buses fly all through theday with an interval every 10 minutes.
For further details contact:
Dr. V. DivyathejomurthySeminar Director
Department of Rural Development,Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur - 522 510, A.P.
Mobile: 09441244847E-mail ID: [email protected]
Dr. K. SomasekharTreasurer, Seminar
Department of Rural Development,Acharya Nagarjuna University,
Guntur – 522 510, Andhra Pradesh.Mobile: 09908988945
E-mail ID: [email protected]
Human Resource Development :Emerging Challenges in Rural Areas
February 25th - 26th, 2016
About the Seminar
Human Resource Development (HRD) relates tothe conscious efforts made by the government andpeople living both in rural and urban areas to improvethe quality of human beings as productive agents. Infact, it is a multi-faceted concept including severalaspects such as development of physical and technicalqualities of human beings, gender equity, skilldevelopment, poverty mitigation, income earningcapacities, enhancement of health status, food security,rural housing and decent environment for living(Swachh Bharat Abhiyan), etc. Successive HumanDevelopment Reports at the international, national andstate levels emphasized the significance and need forpromoting the status and quality of education, medicaland health care, women and child development,employment opportunities, ensuring the provision ofrural water supply and sanitation services in rural areas.
Human development enables increasing numbersof people to live longer than ever before. It calls forensuring healthier and positive prospect of an activelife long into old age. This relates to the adjustments inthe effective implementation of public policies includingthe working of welfare state institutions and civil societyorganizations. According to the UNDP HumanDevelopment Index (HDI) for 2013, India finds its placein the group of nations with “medium HDI”. Indiaaccounts for the global rank of 135 with 0.586 HDIvalue among the 187 nations in the world. In thiscontext, it becomes essential to have completeknowledge about the state level Human DevelopmentIndex in terms of its indicators and the trend in theirbehavior over a period of time.
To complement the HDI, the United Nationsdeveloped Human Poverty Index (HPI), first reportedin Human Development Report 1997. The HPIconcentrates on deprivation in the three essentialelements of human life, viz., longevity, knowledge anda decent standard of living. A cursory look into theinter-state comparison of the state level Human Poverty
Indices provides the scope for strengthening the factorsthat influence the HDI.
The Human Development Report 1995 developedthe Gender Development Index (GDI) and the GenderEmpowerment Measure (GEM) to focus on genderdimensions of development. To remedy theshortcomings of these indicators, the Gender InequalityIndex (GII) was introduced in Human DevelopmentReport 2010. The new index, Gender Inequality Index,is a composite measure, which uses three dimensions,viz., reproductive health, empowerment and labourmarket participation to capture the loss of achievementwithin a country due to gender inequality.
It is admitted that India has been striving hardfor the last four decades to develop the quality of itshuman resources by continuously investing heavily topromote the standards of education, health care,drinking water supply, sanitation, housing facilities, foodsecurity, empowerment of women, youth andmarginalized groups in rural areas and made significantstrides on all these fronts. In spite of this, it is perplexingto note that even though the value of HDI showed aslight improvement of 0.003, India’s global positionremained unchanged. In view of these facts, it ispertinent to investigate into the deficiencies in theimplementation of the programmes of human resourcedevelopment, to identify the factors confronting greaterpace of human resource development and to suggestsuitable measures to overcome the emergingchallenges, especially in the context of rural areas.
A two-day national seminar is being organizedwith a view to provide the relevant and useful inputsfor strengthening the policies of human resourcedevelopment with a focus on the rural developmentscenario. The seminar invites research papers based onthe in-depth studies at micro level on the myriadproblems and challenges emerging in the changingstructure of rural India. Apart from presenting the
theoretical issues related to education, rural health care,poverty alleviation in rural areas, rural water supply,empowerment of rural youth and rural women, focuswould be on empirical studies relating to state leveland district level HDI, HPI, GII and Swachh BharatAbhiyan based on the experiences of village and mandal/block levels projecting the new challenges and casestudies highlighting the issues in rural areas and viableremedies to accelerate the pace of rural development.
Accordingly, the following set of themes is identifiedfor presentation and discussion at the seminar.
Broad themes
i) Occupational structure of human resources in ruralareas
ii) Growth of youth and women resources in rural areasiii) Impact of social indicators on the development of
human resourcesiv) Measurement of Human Development Index at the
state and district levelsv) Inter-state and intra-state comparison of social
indicatorsvi) HRD challenges in the implementation of rural
development policies
Sub-themes
a) Trends in the global position of India based onHuman Development Index
b) Improvements in Human Poverty Index across thestates in India
c) Inter-regional analysis of poverty alleviationprogrammes
d) Inter-state comparison of gender inequality indicese) Progress and performance of Swachh Bharat
Abhiyanf) Any other issue related to Rural Development with
a focus on human resources
