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Evolution of Social Security in the Lap of Public Action: Recounting the Experience of Kerala
This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives in Kerala, India. We situate the development experience of Kerala in a conceptual framework of participatory development, which we interpret in a broad context of organization and mobilization of people at specific junctures of historical progress of a society. Thus participatory development, in our view is participation in the progressive process of realization of human rights and thus in development; that is, public action, with an effective public demand and a wiling public supply, conditioned by the legitimate function of the state. It is also attempted to categorize the on-going social security schemes according to the definitional framework of our study, that is, in terms of the definitional division of social security into basic and contingent social security.Social security; Kerala; development; contingency
In the Vacuum of Public Action Social Security in Orissa: A Long Way to Go
This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives in Orissa, India. Unlike in the context of Kerala, an unfavourable dynamics of historical conjunction of ecological, economic, social, and institutional conditions in Orissa has worked itself out to contribute to the high level of insecurity there. We argue that the failure of Orissa was in its inability to develop the forces of organization and mobilization into its logical end of participatory development process for a secured life on account of some unfavourable historical conjunction. It is also attempted in this paper to categorize the on-going social security schemes according to the definitional framework of our study, that is, in terms of the definitional division of social security into basic and contingent social security.Social security; Orissa; Development; Contingency
Social Security in India: The Long Lane Treaded and the Longer Road Ahead Towards Universalization
This paper is part of a large study on the Social Protection in Rural India and China. In this paper, we attempt at a critical appraisal of the historical development and experience of social security initiatives at the all India level. Based on the findings of the review, we visualize a road map to a more comprehensive and participatory initiatives in provision of social security by the state, while stressing the role of the civil society, non-governmental organizations and mass organizations. It is also attempted to categorize the on-going social security schemes according to the definitional framework of our study, that is, in terms of the definitional division of social security into basic and contingent social security.Social security; India; poverty; development; contingency
The welfare fund model of social security for informal sector workers : the Kerala experience
This paper examines the evolution of the institution of ‘Welfare
Funds’ for informal sector workers in the State of Kerala in India. The
Kerala experience, which is now thirty years old, reflects what the workers
in the informal sector could achieve in countries like India given the
contemporary political context and the democratic political framework
of the State. But it required sustained collective action on the part of the
workers. The paper finds that while the Welfare Fund Model of collective
care arrangements for the informal sector workers in Kerala showed
considerable innovation in its design and organisation, its functioning
is embedded in the bureaucratic system giving rise to a number of
problems. Even then the Model offers a minimum of social security to
the informal sector workers who are unprotected. Therefore the question
of replicating this Model with suitable modifications to other States in
India as well as to other countries, where there are no social security
arrangements for informal sector workers, is worth pursuing.
JEL Classification : I 30, I 38, J 50
Key words : collective care, informal sector workers, Kerala, social
security, welfare funds
Size composition and morphometry of incidentally captured sea turtles at Vizhinjam, south-west coast of India
The paper deals with the size composition of incidentally captured sea turtles in different fishing gear
Role of marine macrophytes as feed for green turtle Chelonia mydas
This paper deals with the food and feeding habits of the green turtle Chelonia mydas caught incidentally in different fishing gears during 1998 – 2000 at Tuticorin and Pamban areas. The seaweeds and seagrasses observed in their gut contents are Gelidiella acerosa, Hypnea
valentiae, Solieria robusta, Sargassum spp, Pocockiella variegata, Dictyota dichotoma,Halimeda macroloba, Caulerpa fergusonii, Ulva reticulata and Chaetomorpha sp (seaweeds), Halophila ovalis, Thalassia hemprichii and Cymodocea serrulata (seagrasses).
The marine macrophytes play the major role in the survival of adult animals since they are purely herbivores
Morphological filtering on hypergraphs
The focus of this article is to develop computationally efficient
mathematical morphology operators on hypergraphs. To this aim we consider
lattice structures on hypergraphs on which we build morphological operators. We
develop a pair of dual adjunctions between the vertex set and the hyper edge
set of a hypergraph H, by defining a vertex-hyperedge correspondence. This
allows us to recover the classical notion of a dilation/erosion of a subset of
vertices and to extend it to subhypergraphs of H. Afterward, we propose several
new openings, closings, granulometries and alternate sequential filters acting
(i) on the subsets of the vertex and hyperedge set of H and (ii) on the
subhypergraphs of a hypergraph
On a Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris (Gray) washed ashore at Mandapam, Gulf of Mannar
A dead dolphin was washed ashore at C.M.F.R.I. jetty along Gulf of Mannar coast on 19-7-200
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