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Website is a platform to share my body of work as ‘Development Sociologist’. Well-being of human kind and knowledge seeking has been a continuous thread in my life and I’m happy that my work  contributes to debate on development, policy making in India. I pay due credit to all those who have supported me and my work.


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On 2011-10-24 17:55:44

Publications: Issues and strategies for women’s rights for public land: Experiences of Working Group on Women & Land Ownership (2010), WGWLO This paper is actually meant to be an analytical document for the Working Group on Women & Land Ownership (WGWLO) in the context of work done around land rights of women, especially for access, use and rights to common land in Gujarat since its inception in 2002. Thus the document is not merely a compilation of work done and outcomes. The main objectives of this paper are: to understand macro and meso level land issues and link them to micro reality; and to analyse, reflect over, overcome limitations and identify areas for strategic planning and interventions with women’s rights perspective.

On 2011-11-14 09:21:51

Publications: Legal Interventions, NGO’s Efforts and Poor in Gujarat

This paper documents the legal actions and interventions along with advocacy efforts and strategies by NGOs in Gujarat on various issues affecting poor, including the issues that affect lives of poor; the advocacy efforts aiming at bringing about changes in or to influence existing government policy or law. It describes creative, sustainable and relevant approaches and strategies by the NGOs based on social, political analysis of ground reality. It captures the perspective and worldviews of the stakeholders as well as vision, mission, functioning and accomplishments of the selected NGOs working in Gujarat.

This paper is actually a section of a larger study “The Condition of Poverty in Gujarat: Looking Back & Ahead”, IDPAD, coordinated by Prof Ghanshyam Shah.