Papers by Subhasmita Khuntia
The Indian Journal of Social Work
The inter-state variations in the participation of rural women in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rur... more The inter-state variations in the participation of rural women in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India poses major challenges to the success of the programme. The present article tries to find out how demographic, socioeconomic and gender development indicators impact inter-state variations across the states. The major finding of the article is that in the states where poverty and gender inequality are deeply intertwined and factored into low human development, women’s participation in MGNREGA tend to be minimal. It suggests policy reforms to tackle the various nuisances that rural women confront in their daily lives and minimise gender inequalities in public work programmes.
Civil society has been emerging as the quintessential actor in the process as well as the discour... more Civil society has been emerging as the quintessential actor in the process as well as the discourse of development in India. The neoliberal paradigm influencing the realms of governance and related factors such as higher degree of participatory civic culture has unravelled a never before emphasis on Civil Society. The civil society is now in the process of being reinvented so as to envisage itself as the contentious space for the expression of voice of the unmediated and the excluded.such as the women, dalits and low castes, peasants, farmers, forest dwellers, and tribals. This emergence inevitably also posits a challenge to the hitherto existing patriarchal thereby avoiding to become the preserve of only white, upper caste male, and property-owning elites as it was earlier. With this as a setting, the paper posits to explain the crisis that that has been raised over the identity of the civil society at both intellectual and political level since its inception in India.
Civil society has been emerging as the quintessential actor in the process as well as the discour... more Civil society has been emerging as the quintessential actor in the process as well as the discourse of development in India. The neoliberal paradigm influencing the realms of governance and related factors such as higher degree of participatory civic culture has unravelled a never before emphasis on Civil Society. The civil society is now in the process of being reinvented so as to envisage itself as the contentious space for the expression of voice of the unmediated and the excluded.such as the women, dalits and low castes, peasants, farmers, forest dwellers, and tribals. This emergence inevitably also posits a challenge to the hitherto existing patriarchal thereby avoiding to become the preserve of only white, upper caste male, and property-owning elites as it was earlier. With this as a setting, the paper posits to explain the crisis that that has been raised over the identity of the civil society at both intellectual and political level since its inception in India.
This paper is all about new orientations that our foreign policy has recently accommodated with t... more This paper is all about new orientations that our foreign policy has recently accommodated with the change of government at the centre.
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Papers by Subhasmita Khuntia