Development Strategies and Governance in India: Predicaments and Challenges

This volume traces India’s developmental strategies and governance systems from state-led to market-driven models over seven decades, highlighting the disconnect between the values enshrined in the Constitution and the governance of policies.

Bala Ramulu Chinnala is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He was an Emeritus Fellow of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, and a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Earlier, he was a faculty member of Public Administration at Kakatiya University, Telangana, India, for over three decades and served in various academic and administrative capacities. A recipient of several awards, he has also held several visiting fellowships. He has published seven books and 60 research papers in journals. His books include: ’Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective’ (2021); ’Governance of Food Security Policies in India’ (2016); ’Technology and Rural Development’ (2000); ’International Organizations and Rural Employment Programs in India: Emerging Trends’ (1999); ’Development Strategies in India: Emerging Trends’ (coedited, 1993); ’Public Policies: An Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme’ (1991); and ’Administration on Anti-Poverty Programme (A Study of SFDA)’(1984). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of development studies, decentralized governance, rural livelihood, and public policy analysis.