M.A.- THIRD SEMESTER-

Paper-10-Disaster Management

Unit I

Disaster and its type, Flood Draught, Cyclone, Geographical Disaster, Earthquake, Landslide, Avalanches, Volcanic Eruptions, Climatic Disaster-Heat and Cold Wave, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea level Rise, Ozone Depletion.

Unit II

Manmade Disaster- Nuclear Disaster, Chemical Disaster, Biological Disaster, building Fire, Coal Fire, Oil Fire, Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Deforestation, Rail & Road Accidents, Air & Sea Accidents.

Unit III

Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Prevention, Preparation and Mitigation, Disaster Information, System, Megha Satellite, Role of Various Agencies in Disaster MitigationNational level and State levels.

Unit IV

Disaster Response: Disaster Medicine, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Recovery.

Paper-11-Good Governance

Unit I

Good-Governance: Concept Analysis, Features, Advantages and Disadvantages, Good Governance and E-Governance.

Unit II

Good Governance and E-Governance in Global Sphere: UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Italy, E-Governance in India.

Unit III

E-Governance in States, E-Governance in Odisha.

Unit IV

Problems of Good Governance and E-Governance, Digital Era of Governance.

Paper-12-Public Policy Analysis

Unit I

Public Policy Analysis – Meaning, Nature and Growing Siginificance, Public Policy as an emerging Sub- Discipline.
Types and Significance, Approaches to Public Policy.

Unit II

Institutional Arrangement for Policy Making, Policy Implementation.

Unit III

Policy Implementation, Policy Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Analysis

Unit IV

Problems & Prospects of Public Policy.

Paper-13-Financial Administration in India

Unit I

Public corporations: Functions and problems, Privatization and Disinvestment.

Unit II

Monetary and Fiscal Policies; Role of Finance Ministry; Parliamentary control over public expenditure, Resource Mobilization and Division of Resources.

Unit III

Financial Administration: Concept of Budget, Types and Forms, Budget as a political instrument Budgetary process; Preparation and Implementation, Zero based Budget.

Unit IV

Financial Accountability; Audits and Accounts; Comptroller and auditor General, Public Policy, Formulation and implementation, Public borrowing and Public debts.

Paper-14-Urban Development (CE/AC)

Unit I

Rural – Urban Migration, Urban Congestion, Pollution, Urban Crimes.

Unit II

Urban Planning, Problems and Prospects of Urban Planning,City Management, Urban Housing, Sewage, Water Supply, Traffic Jam, Transport System.

Unit III

Urban poverty & Its reduction, Urban Development Programmes – JNNURM, Slum Management, Urban Public Health, Institutions of Urban Development – Local bodies.

Unit IV

Specialized Development Agencies, Urban Finance, Development of Sub-Urban Area.

Paper-15-Rural Development

Unit I

Need of Rural Development, Impact of Globalization, Sector of Rural DevelopmentAgriculture, Diary, Fishery, Animal Resource Development

Unit II

Development Strategies for Rural Development : PURA, Role of NGO in Rural Development, Water Resource Management (Pani Panchayat), Self-Help Groups, Institutions for Rural Development, Rural Local Bodies.

Unit III

Rural Co-operatives, Rural Banking, Role of Bureaucracy in Rural Development, ORMAS.

Unit IV

Rural Development Programme : MGNREGS, National Rural Livelihood Mission, Nation Rural Health Mission, SGSY Sarva Sikhya Aviyan, (SSA), Indira Abas Yojana (IAY).

Paper-16-Cultural Heritage Management

Unit I

Indian Culture: General Features, Sources, Components and Evolution.

Unit II

What is Heritage? Meaning and concept. Criterions for selection as heritage sites, monuments and zone by UNESCO (WHC). Types of heritage property. Worldfamous heritage sites and monument in India and abroad.

Unit III

Heritage Management, objectives and strategies, Protection, Conservation and Preservation, Case study of one destination. Heritage Marketing, Destination development.

Unit IV

National and International Organisations engaged in Heritage Management (UNESCO, ICOMOS, ASI, INTACH and NGOs), Museums, Concept and classification. (National Museum, New Delhi; Bharat Kala Bhawan, Varanasi; Archaeological Museum, Sarnath, etc.), Heritage Hotels and its classification.

Suggested Readings:

  1. Allchin, B., Allchin, F.R. et al. (1989) Conservation of Indian Heritage, Cosmo Publishers, New Delhi.
  2. New Inskeep, Edward, Tourism Planning: An Integrated and Sustainable Development Approach (1991) VNR, New York.
  3. Ashworth, G. J. (2000), The Tourist Historic City. Retrospect and Prospect of Managing the Heritage City, Pergamon, Oxford
  4. UNESCO-IUCN (1992) Eds. Masterworks of Man and Nature, Pantoga, Australia

Paper-17-Human Rights

Unit I

Definition of Human Rights – Nature, Content, Legitimacy and Priority – Theories on Human Rights – Historical Development of Human Rights.

Unit II

International Human Rights – Prescription and Enforcement upto World War II – Human Rights and the U .N .O. – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – International Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Optional Protocol.

Unit III

Human Rights Declarations – U.N. Human Rights Declarations – U.N. Human Commissioner.

Unit IV

Amnesty International – Human Rights and Helsinki Process – Regional Developments – European Human Rights System – African Human Rights System – International Human Rights in Domestic courts.

Unit V

Contemporary Issues on Human Rights: Children’s Rights – Women’s Rights – Dalit’s Rights – Bonded Labour and Wages – Refugees – Capital Punishment. Fundamental Rights in the Indian Constitution – Directive Principles of State Policy – Fundamental Duties – National Human Rights Commission.

Paper-18-Indian Economy

Unit I

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ITS DETERMINANTS
Approaches to economic development and its measurement – Sustainable development; Role of State, market and other institutions; Indicators of development – Human Development Index (HDI), Gender Development Index (GDI)

Unit II

ECONOMIC REFORMS and PLANNING IN INDIA
ï‚· Rationale of internal and external reforms; Globalization of Indian economy; WTO and its impact on the different sectors of the economy – Financial sector reforms – Fiscal reforms.
ï‚· Paining: Meaning, types, origin – Indian five year plans: Objectives, strategies, financing – Targets, achievements and failures.

Unit III

DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
Broad demographic features of India’s population; Rural – Urban migration; Urbanization and civic amenities; Poverty and Inequality.

Unit IV

AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIAL SECTORS
Land reforms in India; Technological changes in agriculture – pricing of agricultural inputs and output – Industrial policy; Public sector enterprises and their performance; Problem of sick units in India; Privatization and disinvestments debate.

Paper-19-Environment Impact Assessment and Social Impact Assessment

Unit I

EIA – Introduction – Concept of EIA- Scope and object of EIA – Organization responsible for EIA – Site selection and area classification- Siting and setting criteria for EIA projects.

Unit II

Description of the environmental setting – Inclusion or Exclusion of environmental Items – Some suggested approaches for developing a list of environmental Factors – Informational Sources for Environmental factors.

Unit III

Various steps of EIA – Content of EIA – Assessment methodology- Ad-hoc, Overlay, Network, Matrix and checklist . Cost benefit analysis – Case studies, Hydroelectric projects, Mining, Power plant Roads and airports.

Unit IV

Environmental Impact Assessment Notification (1994): Procedure for Environmental Clearance, List of the projects requiring Environmental Clearance, Composition of Expert Committee for Impact Assessment, Public hearing Committee, Procedure for public hearing – Project clearance.

Unit V

Detailed content of EIS – Use of visual display methods – Statement documentation – general writing suggestion.

REFERNCE BOOKS-

  1. Rau, J.G. and Wooten, D.C (1980) Environmental Impact Analysis Hand Book, Mc Graw Hill, USA.
  2. Canter, L. W. (1977) Environmental Impact Assessment. McGraw-Hill, New York.
  3. Erickson, P.A. (1977) Environmental Impact Assessment – Principles an Applications McGraw-Hill, New York.
  4. Munn, R. E. (1982) Environmental Impact Assessment. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Paper-20-Women in India

Unit I

Theories of feminism

Unit II

Women and Family
Women and work

Unit III

Women and Education
Women and law

Unit IV

Women and Political Participation in India & Emerging Concern

Planning and Regional Economics-

Unit I

  • Concepts of planning objects: scope and rational of planning, planning under capitalism and mixed economy.
  • Regulations and controls under planning. (a) Fiscal (b) Monetary (c) Administrative issue of nationalization.

Unit II

  • Formulation of Development plans: Use of models, linear and non linear programming, input output analysis, physical and financial planning, planning in lance, perspective planning investment criteria, optional level of investment choice of sectors, projects, techniques and regions, allocation of resources, pricing in planning.

Unit III

  • Federalism and planning: planning in federal state, regional balances planning agency and perfect preparation.
  • Regional Planning: Regional accounts, linear programming input output analysis, area planning, comparative cost studies, industrial complex analysis, cost benefit analysis, system analysis.

Unit IV

  • Plan mechanism at national and regional levels and their co- ordination, comparative cost studies, industrial complex analysis.
  • Plan mechanism at national and regional level and their co ordination, planning commission, planning Boards, National Development Council, Mechanism of policy formulation at national and regional level.
  • Indian plans and Orissa Plans: Objectives, Allocations, Strategy, Finances and achievements interregional balances as strategies of development under five year plans.

Unit V

Man power Planning: with reference to India and Orissa man power planning and economic development, Man power, Policy at National and regional levels under five year plans.

Reference:

  1. Problems of Regional Economic PlanningJ. R. Boudeville
  2. Location and Regional Planning-L. Lefeber
  3. Development Finances Planning and–Control-U. Hicks
  4. Regional Planning in India-M. C. Chand & V. K. Puri
  5. Economic Planning C. D. Baldwin
  6. Pricing in Planned Economy-B. V. Krishnamurthy
  7. Technique of Planning- S. S. Wagle
  8. Essays on Economic Planning O. Lange
  9. Principles of Economic planning W. A. Lewis
  10. Five Year Plan of India and Orissa
  11. Orissa Finances in Perspective-S. C. Pattnaik
  12. Approaches to Dynamic Investment Planning-S. A. Marglin
  13. Choice of Technique-A. K. Sen
  14. Regional Planning Balkrishna
  15. Planning for Balanced Social and Economic Development-U. N. O
  16. Central Planning-Jan Tinbergen
  17. Economic Planning for Underdeveloped Areas-E. S. Mason
  18. Education, Manpower and Economic Growth F. Herbinson and C. A. Mayer