Development with Justice

The Bihar Experience

Sankar Kumar Bhaumik

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032626376
• eBook ISBN: 9781040006535
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Politica sociale

Since the nation's independence, the union and state governments of India have employed a variety of development strategies, some of which have evolved over time. The model of development implemented in Bihar in recent decades is different from its prior development strategies. Along with a number of social reform initiatives, the Bihar government implemented the "development-with-justice" model to enhance the lives and living circumstances of the most marginalized groups of the population and ensure the attainment of social justice.
In light of the aforementioned context, this book offers an understanding of the various aspects of the Bihar government's "development-with-justice" model, and the effects of its implementation on lives and quality of living conditions of the state's underprivileged population. The book covers a wide spectrum of areas such as history of social reform measures, social justice in education, health, labour market, etc., caste- and gender-based discrimination, women's empowerment, migrant workers, poverty, inequality, agrarian concerns, planning for development, and so on. Besides recommending policies to improve the state's development outcomes, this book will aid researchers in identifying topics that may require additional research.

Clearly researched, concise, and up-to-date, this book will be useful to the students and researchers from the fields of development economics, development studies, gender studies, sociology, political science, economic history, as well as the policy-planners in the government.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Contributors
• 1. Mapping the Role of Thinkers in the Context of Ideological Trajectory of Social Justice in Bihar
• 2. Bihar's Tryst with Social Justice
• 3. Human Development in Bihar: Dissecting Issues and the Way Forward
• 4. Education and Social Justice in Bihar: Still an Achilles’ Heel?
• 5. An Empirical Case Study of Educational Experience of Musahar Children in Bihar
• 6. Beyond Teacher Quality: Understanding the Moderating Role of Infrastructure in Student Learning Outcomes in Secondary Education
• 7. Health and Curative Health Care in Bihar: A Comparative Study
• 8. Choice for Modern Contraception in Bihar: Can Affirmative Action Work?
• 9. Inter-District Variations in Utilisation of Maternal and Child Health Care Facilities in Bihar
• 10. Labour Market Discrimination in the State of Bihar
• 11. Gender and Social Discrimination in Employment and Earnings: An Empirical Analysis in Bihar
• 12. Caste Inequality in Child Stunting in Bihar: A Violation of Justice
• 13. An Inquiry of Causes and Persistence of Poverty among Dalits in Bihar
• 14. Multidimensional Deprivations and Social Sector Expenditure in Bihar: A Critical Look
• 15. Marginal Agriculture as Social Security: A Case for Facilitating Access to Land in Bihar
• 16. Economic Growth and Social Justice: A Study with Reference to Agricultural Households in Bihar
• 17. Access to Institutional Credit and Socio-economic Inequality: Implications for Social Justice in Rural Bihar
• 18. Migration, Marginality and Development: The Case of Bihar
• 19. COVID-19 as Social Crisis and Justice: Migrants from Bihar
• 20. Economic Empowerment of Women: A Review of the Jeevika Programme
• 21. The Path Towards Gender Mainstreaming Through Four Parameters of Development
• 22. Reservation for Women in Bihar Police Force: A Note
• 23. Child Trafficking in Bihar: A Situational Analysis
• 24. Trends and Determinants of Child Marriage in Bihar
• 25. Outcome-Based Policymaking
• Index