TY - BOOK AU - Mathur,Kuldeep TI - Development Policy and Administration T2 - Readings in Indian government and politics SN - 0803993404 U1 - 338.954 PY - 1996/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - India KW - Economic policy KW - 1980- KW - Economic conditions KW - 1947- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. ); Preface / Ghanshyam Shah, Zoya Hasan and Kuldeep Mathur -- 1. Introduction: The Emerging Concerns in Public Administration / Kuldeep Mathur -- 2. Plan Objectives and Role of the State: Excerpts from the Second and Eighth Five Year Plans -- 3. The Rise and Decline of Development Planning in India / Ajit Mozoomdar -- 4. Agriculture and Rural Development in the 1990s and Beyond: Redesigning Relations between the State and Institutions of Development / Tushaar Shah -- 5. Organization for Policy Formulation / Ishwar Dayal -- 6. Institutional Framework for Policy Advice: The Cabinet Secretariat and the Prime Minister's Office / Kuldeep Mathur and James W. Bjorkman -- 7. The Prime Minister and the Bureaucracy / David Potter -- 8. Designing Poverty Alleviation Programmes: International Agencies and Indian Politics / Kuldeep Mathur -- 9. Panchayati Raj in India / George Mathew -- 10. Panchayati Raj in West Bengal: Popular Participation for the People or the Party? / Neil Webster; 11. Decentralization below the State Level: Need for a New System of Governance / Nirmal Mukarji -- 12. The NGO Sector in India: Historical Context and Current Discourse / D. L. Sheth and Harsh Sethi ER -