Escaping Poverty: The Ralegan Siddhi Case

Aasha Kapur Mehta and Trishna Satpathy ()

Working Papers from eSocialSciences

Abstract: Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was just another drought prone, poverty stricken village, but it has had much success in poverty reduction since then. Ralegan Siddhi's success is not just a story of change as a result of access to water. This paper provides evidence of the remarkable economic, social and community regeneration in Ralegan Siddhi, due to a strong, selfless, ethical and accountable leadership as well as its replication in Hivre Bazaar. [Working Paper No. 38]

Keywords: Best practice; poverty reduction; Anna Hazare; watershed; equitable development; inclusive; holistic; replicable; reverse migration; selfless leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa
Note: Institutional Papers
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.esocialsciences.org/Download/repecDownl ... &AId=2951&fref=repec

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2951

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Padma Prakash ().