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Reimagining Cities: Assuring the Right to Food for the Migrant Poor in Pune City
Full text linkThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is seeking to end hunger,achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainableagriculture. It guarantees every citizen with access to adequate foodthroughout the year through sustainable food systems. Although India hasmade considerable progress in tackling hunger and poor nutrition in thepast two decades, the Global Hunger Index indicates that India suffersfrom a level of hunger that is ‘serious’. During lockdown, the poor foodsecurity structure and its functioning have been observed. The urbaninformal migrant labourers are the most vulnerable to hunger andexperienced acute food scarcity. By addressing food security and rightsinterventions, our cities would be inclusive. The paper discusses the issueof rights to food with regard to the urban informal sector, migrant labourersand experiences during COVID-19 response work in Pune cit
Organ Donation and Transplantation in India: The Role of a Medical Social Worker in a Hospital Setting
Full text linkOrgan donation and transplantation is a relevant area which requires moredeliberation and action. The increased organ trafficking in the field oforgan donation and transplantation has made the role of a medical socialworker crucial. Apart from the legal workup and counselling, the medicalsocial worker also plays an important role in the areas of administration,assessment, intervention and evaluation within the legal aspect of thehealthcare system. This article highlights the different roles of the medicalsocial worker in the healthcare system, along with the legal process of organdonation and transplant in India with the support of three case studies. Thearticle also throws a light on the need to have continuous training and valueaddedprogrammes for medical social workers to keep them up to date
Townships as Intersectional Spaces of Gendered Economic Vulnerability among Young Women
Full text linkYoung women’s realities, particularly if they grow up in townships, areproduced through continuous negotiations between subjective economicactions and constraints posed by the structuring of the townshipenvironments. The structural constraints are reflected in the exigenciesand convergences of population density, youth unemployment and genderinequality. These characteristics work together to create the social andeconomic limitations that frame the township environment. The realitiesof young women are not static but are subject to change. The change isunderpinned by women’s interpretation of their situation within theexperiences of dependency, instrumentality and vulnerability thatcharacterise their agencies. Against this background, women’s economicactions are often marked by coexisting experiences of socio-economicadvantage and disadvantage that they navigate as they forge their realities.This paper provides a discussion of feminised plans devised by townshipyoung women to attain their desired lifestyle goal
Access to and outcomes of Secondary Education for The Urban Poor: Findings from A Study in Mumbai City
Full text linkSecondary education has received much less attention than it deserves in thestate’s educational policies and investments in independent India. A similarlack of interest is also observed in social science research on this segment ofschooling. Quality mass secondary education is important for India as one ofthe ways of addressing social inequalities by expanding educational andemployment opportunities for its vast population of youth. Based on a studyconducted in Mumbai city, the paper examines the nature of state provisionof secondary education and the outcomes of government schooling for theurban poor. It argues that by curtailing direct investments in the schooling ofthe poor and indirectly subsidising private schooling of the middle classes, thestate deprives the poor of schooling and contributes to the reproduction ofsocial inequalities through schooling. The paper also discusses how specificcurricular subjects such as English and mathematics act as gate keepers inthis process
Nation And The State, The Nation-State: Liberation From Conceptual Eurocentrism
Full text linkThis paper presents the complexity of the realities of the nation,state, and nation-state in the Indian context, which resulted from theapplication of the western conceptualisations of the nation and thenation-state. In doing so the paper examines in a historical context thewestern concept of the unitary nation-state. Under this form ofconceptualisation, the nation is regarded as independent of and prioror subsequent to the state. It would mean that there can be one or morenations within a single state. In such a conceptualisation no cleardistinction is made between ethnic group and nation, and India is notregarded as a nation-state. However, the Indian nation was born out ofthe Indian nationalism for a sovereign democratic India, which waspluri-ethnic, multi-class, and gender partnered. Hence, the indigenousatypical Indian nation is a creature of civic nationalism, not ethnonationalism.The origin of the Indian nation-state is rooted in an ethnicplurality joining in a common political cause for national liberationand a national state, without the compulsions of ethnic homogenisation.The western concept of the mono-cultural nation does not fully explainthis reality of the Indian nation-state. The Indian experiment gives socialscience the scope for liberating the concept of the nation from westernparochialism and makes it universal
Social Development: Environmental Sustainability and Social Well Being
Full text linkSignificant changes have taken place in the discussion anddirection of development during the last two decades. A major shiftwhich occurred, as a result of various dialogues, was towards the noneconomicspheres of development. The international conventions onvarious themes convened by the UN have shed light on human, socialand existential dimensions of development. The less developed nationshave had an influential role in bringing in the non-economic factors inthe discussions of development. Sustainability as well as social wellbeing have been established as norms in development policies andpractices. But the latter, it seems, has not been adequately absorbedinto the whole discussion. An amalgamation of sustainability and socialwell being is essential in devising an appropriate strategy ofdevelopment that ensures the existence of the environment and decentliving of all for the present and future generations
Innovative Practices of Community Participation In Sustaining Jalanidhi Project
Full text linkJalanidhi is a programme of the government of Kerala with the financialsupport from World Bank for providing safe drinking water with the participationof the beneficiaries, that is, the local community, which is formed into abeneficiary group (BG), and the local self-government in rural areas. Theproject is set up with the government assistance and the community or the BGis expected to operate and maintain it on its own. It has to deal with anyproblem that arises in the course of maintaining the infrastructure (pipeline,pump and motor, and tank) and distributing water to the beneficiaries. Followingare a few cases of how the local community of the beneficiaries resolved theissues that arose in the operation of the jalanidhi projec
