Introduction. Presidential address 1. Emerging challenges of the post reform period some facets of the deprivation scenario in India/Ashok Mathur. Special theme paper 2. Structural adjustment and rural development real or residual/Kamal Nayan Kabra. I. Paradigmic perceptions 3. Economic reforms in India looking backward and forward/T.R. Kundu. 4. Vicissitudes of economic reforms in India a shift from democratic governance to market governance/Prem R. Bhardwaj. 5. Emerging challenges of post globalization period and how to tackle them/V.S. Mahajan. 6. Economic reforms and the state empowering the poor/Nisha Garg and Neera Verma. II. Development profiles 7. Human development process in the context of globalization and liberalization/R.P. Singh. 8. Economic reforms process in India challenges and implications/Raj Kumar. 9. Human development in rural India status after a decade and half of economic reforms/Smita Sirohi and Pralay Hazra. 10. Economic reforms development and women in India a critique/Rajinder Kaur. 11. Social sector development after 1991 with reflections from West Bengal/Dilip K. Ghosh. 12. Economic reforms and rural development lessons from China/Suresh Dhanda and Rajinder Punia. 13. Impact of economic reforms on rural industries SWOT analysis/Y. Gangi Reddy. 14. Post economic reforms challenges for rural India with reflections on the Andhra experience/C. Umamaheswara Rao Yogananda Sastry Chaturvedi and Y. Sivaramaiah. 15. Post reform scenario in India tackling poverty inequities and unemployment/Nirmala Chaudhary and Meenu Dutt. III. Good governance for good development 16. Economic reforms and good governance in Panchayati Raj/Mohinder Singh and Vijay Kumar. 17. Reforms rural development and the good grass roots governance perspective percept and practice/K.K. Mor. 18. Governance sans corruption Sine Qua non for rural development in the post reforms period/Atul Dhingra and S.D. Chamola. 19. Corruption and good financial governance agenda for India/Sanjeev Bansal. IV. Meeting the WTO challenge 20. WTO and trade related intellectual property rights some issues of concern for India/L.N. Dahiya Sumanjeet and Seema. 21. India's agri export sector status challenges and opportunities/Suresh K. Bedi. 22. WTO agriculture and economic reforms/Sunil Phougat and Pradeep Duhan. V. Augmenting agriculture for sustainable development 23. The state of Indian agriculture in the post liberalized regime some issues for policy interventions/S.P. Singh. 24. Agriculture and economic reforms/Mandeep Singh and Yugesh Kumar Sablok. 25. Emerging challenges in the post reform period necessary interventions for augmenting agriculture/A.K. Chauhan. 26. Strengthening the agri sector in the old green revolution regions in the emerging scenario some reflections/S. Kaushil. 27. Liberalization and Indian agriculture/Ranbir Singh and Anupama Arya. 28. Role of transfer of technology in agri business development/Sube Singh Joginder S. Malik and Sushila Dahiya. VI. Growth and jobs the employment dimension 29. Economic reforms vis a vis employment in India a critical analysis/R.K. Rana. 30. Economic reforms and employment in India/Jagdish Chauhan and Shyam Parshad. 31. Training of service employees a challenge for service sector in the post reform period/Divya Malhan and S.C. Kundu. 32. Prolonged unemployment health and development/Rajbir Singh Shalini Singh and Manju. VII. Regional Kaleidoscope 33. Diversification to horticulture in Haryana a socio economic and psychological perspective/R.S. Malik P.S. Shehrawat Ashok Kumar and R.K. Punia. 34. Impact of economic reforms in agri rural sectors in Assam some issues/Pabitra Kalita. 35. Trends in inter regional divergences in electricity consumption during the post-reforms period a case of Punjab and Haryana/Amarjit Singh Sethi. 36. Implications of the liberalization and globalization for agriculture in Haryana/Saroj Malik. 37. Nai Disha an e-governance initiative in Ha