Chapter 1 Overview.- Chapter 2 Occupational Diversification and Rural Transformation in India.- Chapter 3 Changes in the Employment Scenario in Gujarat.- Chapter 4 Structural Changes and Implications for Urbanization.- Chapter 5 Changing Socio-Economic Profile of Urbanized Villages (Census Towns).- Chapter 6 Census Towns in Gujarat: Economic, Social and Environmental Effects of Rural Transformation.- Chapter 7 Rural Transformation in Gujarat: Major Findings for Policy Focus.
Niti Mehta is Professor of Economics and officiating Director at the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research (SPIESR), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Prior to this, she was associated with the Agro-Climatic Regional Planning Project of the Planning Commission wherein she was involved in formulating resource based decentralized agro-climatic plans for the country. Her research interests are agriculture development, employment issues, agrarian growth and rural transformation, urbanisation and related areas. Dr. Mehta has authored and co-authored several research papers in journals and books on these subjects. Her books relate to hired labour use in agriculture, sources of agricultural growth and total factor productivity, and human development.