https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1528 2026-04-27T14:14:28Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1541 Title: Self Help Groups and Women Empowerment- A Study in North 24 Pargana District in West Bengal Authors: Bhattacharjee, Amrita; Pal, Prankrishna Abstract: In this paper we have studied the impact of Government sponsored poverty alleviation program – Swarna Jyanti Sahari Rojgar Yojana(SJSRY) on women empowerment in Bongaon Municipality of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal. The Urban Women Self-help Program (UWSP) of SJSRY concentrates on women empowerment in urban areas through SHGs. It has two components namely UWSP (loan and subsidy) and UWSP (Revolving Fund). Our estimates reveal that group participation has increased the knowledge, awareness of women about their rights and their self confidence. This is reflected both in case of UWSP (loan and subsidy) group members popularly known as DWCUA members and UWSP (Revolving Fund) group members popularly known as TCG members’ empowerment level. 95% of DWCUA members are empowered, 58% of TCG members are empowered and only 11% of Non TCG members (non group members or the control group) are empowered in Bongaon Municipality of West Bengal. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1540 Title: Economics of Tuberose Cultivation and its Marketing - A Case Study in Purba Medinipur District of West Bengal Authors: Bera, Joydev; Majumder, Sankar Abstract: Tuberose cultivation is highly labour intensive and family labour plays a vital role. The cultivation of tuberose provides the farmers a stream of incomes over a considerable period of time during the year. But the existing marketing system with its varying categories of intermediaries is such that the farmers’ share in the consumers’ price is low. And contrary to this, the market intermediaries are enjoying the larger share in the consumers’ price.. Farmers’ share decreases with the increase in the length of the chain of the market. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1539 Title: Water Scarcity and Declining Trend in Yield in Foodgrains Production of India Authors: Sasmal, Joydeb Abstract: India has achieved remarkable success in foodgrains production in the last four decades largely banking on tube-well irrigation. But the country is experiencing a declining trend in the growth rate in yield in recent years. This paper demonstrates theoretically how excess depletion and under utilization of ground water make water scarcity a serious constraint to future growth in agriculture. Using time series econometric analysis based on Indian data it establishes that there is meaningful long-run relationship between tube-well irrigation, fertilizer use and productivity growth in agriculture and it explains the declining trend in the growth rate in yield in terms of declining growth rate in tube-well irrigation. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/1538 Title: Extreme Event, Anthropogenic Stress and Ecological Sustainability in Sundarban Islands Authors: Ghosh, Santadas Abstract: For fifty four densely populated islands surrounding one of the World Heritage Site and a famous tiger reserve in the Ganges delta, called Sundarbans, the main occupations of the residents has been agriculture and catching fish and crab in the delta waters. Cyclone Aila in 2009 had destroyed the islands’ agriculture through salt deposits on agricultural fields, resulting from widespread breaching of protective embankments. This paper examines the nature of anthropogenic stress on the river and forest inflicted upon by the disaster. The study finds that fish and crab catching was a supplementary activity for most poor households along with agriculture. When agriculture was temporarily devastated, working adults from many such households opted to move out as migrant labourers. This in turn helped to release some possible pressure on the ecosystem. Climate Change predictions warn of increased frequency of cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and this delta is considered as one of the most vulnerable areas in the country. This paper suggests that in face of such disasters, devising a long term policy of relocation of island people away from forest and rivers is a more ecologically sustainable strategy rather than protecting them locally by erecting costly embankments. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z