Prepare your own blueprint for the development of landless agricultural labourers of India in maximum 300 words.
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Explanation:
This article focuses on asset strategies of landless
labourers in a South Indian context. These are people
who suffer from chronic poverty and vulnerability.
Asset strategies of the poor are a neglected area in
India as elsewhere, despite the fact that since the early
1970s there has been a substantial programme of
government intervention to improve the asset
positions of India's poor. Some of the reasons why
asset strategies of the poor have not been taken
seriously are (a) because the poor are thought of as
basically assetless; (b) because increasing the assets of
the poor is thought to be a relatively low priority;
(e) because increasing the assets of the poor is thought
to be fruitless; (d) because it is felt that it is obvious
what is needed - there is no need for further studies of
the situation. But (a) the poor do have assets that are
often quite crucial to them, and to understanding their
behaviour and their predicament; (b) there may be
higher priorities, but assets may be a priority too;
(e) there have been some notable successes with
policies designed to increase the assets held by the
poor; (d) what seems obvious is often wrong. Some of
these points are addressed in this article.
There has been a good deal of debate in the Indian
literature on the array of policies aimed at
strengthening the position of landless agricultural
labourers. One of the debates has centred on the
relative merits of employment generation versus
schemes to improve landless agricultural labourers'
asset positions. Another has revolved around the
argument about whether more fundamental changes
in the structure of both production itself and
production relations are essential to produce the
massive increases in employment and labour pro-
ductivity that are needed to make serious inroads into
the problem of landless agricultural labourer poverty.'
Agricultural labourer households made up an
estimated 31 per cent of all rural households in India in
1983 and the proportion has been increasing [Unni
1988]. It is important to consider how the position of
agricultural labourers can be
Answer:
This article focuses on asset strategies of landless
labourers in a South Indian context. These are people
who suffer from chronic poverty and vulnerability.
Asset strategies of the poor are a neglected area in
India as elsewhere, despite the fact that since the early
1970s there has been a substantial programme of
government intervention to improve the asset
positions of India's poor. Some of the reasons why
asset strategies of the poor have not been taken
seriously are (a) because the poor are thought of as
basically assetless; (b) because increasing the assets of
the poor is thought to be a relatively low priority;
(e) because increasing the assets of the poor is thought
to be fruitless; (d) because it is felt that it is obvious
what is needed - there is no need for further studies of
the situation. But (a) the poor do have assets that are
often quite crucial to them, and to understanding their
behaviour and their predicament; (b) there may be
higher priorities, but assets may be a priority too;
(e) there have been some notable successes with
policies designed to increase the assets held by the
poor; (d) what seems obvious is often wrong. Some of
these points are addressed in this article.
There has been a good deal of debate in the Indian
literature on the array of policies aimed at
strengthening the position of landless agricultural
labourers. One of the debates has centred on the
relative merits of employment generation versus
schemes to improve landless agricultural labourers'
asset positions. Another has revolved around the
argument about whether more fundamental changes
in the structure of both production itself and
production relations are essential to produce the
massive increases in employment and labour pro-
ductivity that are needed to make serious inroads into
the problem of landless agricultural labourer poverty.'
Agricultural labourer households made up an
estimated 31 per cent of all rural households in India in
1983 and the proportion has been increasing
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