Lakshminarayan Satpati

Bio: Lakshminarayan Satpati is an academic researcher from University of Calcutta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Menstruation. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 17 publications receiving 51 citations.

India's achievement towards sustainable Development Goal 6 (Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all) in the 2030 Agenda

Abstract: Clean water and sanitation are global public health issues. Safe drinking water and sanitation are essential, especially for children, to prevent acute and chronic illness death and sustain a healthy life. The UN General Assembly announced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets for the 2030 Agenda on 25 September 2015. SDG 6 is very important because it affects other SDG (1, 2,3,5,11,14 and 15). The present study deals with the national and state-wise analysis of the current status and to access deficiency of India's achievement towards SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation for all) for the 2030 agenda based on targets 6.1, 6.2,6.4,6.6 from 2012 to 2020.Data of different indicators of SDG 6 are collected from different secondary sources-NSS 69th (2012) and 76th (2018) round; CGWB annual report 2016-2017 and 2018-2019; NARSS (2019-2020); SBM-Grameen (2020). To understand overall achievement towards SDG 6 in the 2030 agenda, the goal score (arithmetic mean of normalised value) has been calculated.According to NSS data, 88.7% of Indian households had enough drinking water from primary drinking water sources throughout the year, while 79.8% of households had access to toilet facilities in 2018. As per the 2019-2021 goal score for States and UTs in rural India based on SDG 6 indicator, SDG 6 achiever States and UTs (100%) are Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.Drinking water and sanitation for all ensure a healthy life. It is a matter of concern for the government, policymakers, and people to improve the condition where the goal score and indicator value of SDG 6 are low.

Assessment of Food Security Using Geospatial Techniques in Rural India: A Study from Koch Bihar, West Bengal

Abstract: Food security is a global issue, which comes before in the time of the 1970s. The term food security became well-known after the World Food Conference held in Rome in 1974. Food security is simply defined as the absence of hunger or the ability to provide a sufficient amount of food at the global, national, community, or household level (Anderson et al., J Nutr, 2009:120, 2009). Evaluation criteria objectives and attributes need to be identified concerning the particular situation under consideration in order to obtain the importance of each criterion for the model of aggregation and employed the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to take out standard weights. Food security based on food production is one of the major aspects of agricultural development. Agricultural production in general and food self-sufficiency in particular are the basic objectives of agricultural planning. This research began with the assumption that geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis provides a powerful methodology for food security assessment (FSA). The results demonstrated that GIS indeed provides essential techniques that can be used to better understand the changing relationships between food availability, the accessibility of landmass, and the effects of climate change on agricultural production. In this research work, the methods have been applied to assess the risk and likelihood of food insecurity based on an assessment of food security status. The FSA model was based on geospatial analysis of factors ranging from topography, land use, climate, and agricultural activities. The study resulted in the ability to illustrate regions at risk within the Koch Bihar District. A total of seven major indicators and 25 sub-indicators have been applied to find out the status of the food security in the study area. The results of the secondary data indicate a significant promise for extending the GIS spatial analysis. Based on the achieved results, future work will benefit from fuzzy logic for the integration of AHP when applying sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, and the primary data represent the ground truth of the food security status in the Koch Bihar.

Gajan: A Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized People in Kulpi CD Block, West Bengal

Abstract: Rich folk culture and traditional heritage have always been the most important part of Indian art and culture. The state West Bengal is also famous for some of its very indigenous folk culture, and Gajan is one of them. It is a part of Charak festival observed on the occasion of the worship of the lord Shiva; as He is revered as the prime-mover. Gajan is a particular branch of local culture in the southern part of Kulpi C D Block, South 24 Parganas, and Gajan-gaan (Gajan songs) originate in the heart of common people, and this expresses their social, religious and political status, demonstrating the history of class struggle, social stratification and exploitations of marginal class by the upper class and political hegemony. Gajan generally deals with two types of marginalized groups: firstly, the Namsudras (untouchable) and secondly, the group of women. This festival gives the subaltern masses the power to sabotage caste system; order of hierarchy and in every form of classification possible, like caste, class, gender, dialect and so on. It also expresses different feelings of a woman like anger, hunger, thirst and fear which gives men an “anti-penis envy”. It is observed that rich people seldom participate in Gajan; it’s only the backward sections of the society who participate in it. The so-called upper class (or caste) people show the least interest in this festival. Thus, the financially weaker people are its sole organizers. As a result, due to lack of sponsorship, this rich culture of Bengal is in the threshold of abolishment. The aim of this study is to understand the involvement of marginalized group of population in Gajan, their class struggle and the reasons behind the decreasing interest of educated mass in this festival. Some steps have been taken by few organizations to help the Gajan artists. The Government of West Bengal too has adopted some policies for the artists to save this cultural heritage, because Gajan is a big asset for the society, being the reflection of social, economic, political and religious life of the marginal class of people.

Resource Availability and Socio-economic Profile of Scheduled Caste (SC) Community in Agrarian Society: Approach Towards Sustainability

Abstract: Resource availability is important for sustainable livelihood and development. A resource is not merely a tangible object but also a functional relationship that exists between people’s wants, capabilities and attitude towards worth of the environment. The objectives of this study are to study the availability of various resources in Koch Bihar for its natives and whether they are being sustainably utilized or not and the other one to study and investigate the socio-economic profile of the village people belonging to scheduled caste community in Koch Bihar District, West Bengal. The present study is based on both primary and secondary sources of data to have a clear picture about resource availability and its sustainable utilization by the natives of Koch Bihar District. The extensive household survey also focuses on the socio-economic background of the scheduled caste population residing within the district largely belonging to the farming community, and they are directly depending on the primary economic activity and natural resources.

Application of Remotely Sensed Data for Estimation of Indices to Assess Spatiotemporal Aspects of Droughts in Bankura District of West Bengal, India

Abstract: Drought is a complex environmental issue, defined as the condition of severe water shortage in any spatiotemporal condition. This study primarily aims to deliberate upon the use of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing techniques for analysis of meteorological data to find out drought risk assessment in Bankura district of West Bengal. The study incorporates multispectral band ratio to estimate vegetation density and vegetation health for evaluation of spatiotemporal aspects of drought conditions. Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) have been worked out to measure three other indices, namely: Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), Temperature Condition Index (TCI), and Vegetation Health Index (VHI). Moreover, an attempt has been made to assess spatiotemporal issues of drought risks associated with agriculture through analysis of temporal images for NDVI and Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) of the area. Three drought years i.e., 2000, 2010, and 2018 have been selected for assessment of drought in the district. Overall, the results showed that the district has experienced moderate to severe drought situations in the recent past.

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Economic and social commission for asia and the pacific

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Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones Using RS, GIS and AHP Techniques: A Case Study in a Part of Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP), Maharashtra, India

Abstract: This article deals with the remote sensing and geographic information system techniques in assessing groundwater potential zones by the manipulation and analysis of the individual layer of spatial controlling data in a part of Deccan Volcanic Province, Maharashtra. Available geology, geomorphology, and soil maps were collected. Land use and land cover (LULC) and Lineament maps had been prepared using the LANDSAT-8 (TM and OLI) Satellite Image (November 2015). The SRTM DEM (resolution: 30 m) data had been employed for the preparation of slope and drainage maps. These maps were converted into the raster format. Analytic hierarchy process was applied to weight, ranking, and reclassify these maps in the ArcGIS version 10.4. Then, groundwater prospect map had been prepared by overlaying the maps. The results show that five groundwater potential zones such as very poor (11.77%), poor (21.73%), moderate (30.13%), good (25.34%), and very good (11.02%) exit. Sensitivity analysis reveals that the lineament density, LULC, and slope increase the area slightly only in the very poor to poor potential zones. Besides, the well yields, groundwater level fluctuation corresponding rainfall data had been utilized to validate. The yield values vary from 5.94 to 14.88 l/s in the good to very good potential zones, whereas 0.38 to 1.37 l/s within the poor to very poor potential zones. In addition, cross-correlation coefficients among groundwater level and rainfall is well-related to the groundwater potential index (R2 = 0.84), which will help to construct artificial recharge structures and the planning of sustainable groundwater management.

Neoliberalismo reciente: la FinanCializaCiónde la vivienda propia y el dereCho a la vivienda* Late NeoliBeralism: The Financialization of Homeownership and Housing Rights

Abstract: Over the last few decades we have witnessed a global U-turn in prevailing housing and urban policy agendas, spread around the world by the driving forces of globalization and neoliberalism. The new paradigm was mainly based on the withdrawal of states from the housing sector and the implementation of policies designed to create stronger and larger market-based housing finance models. The commodification of housing, together with the increased use of housing as an investment asset within a globalized financial market, has profoundly affected the enjoyment of the right to adequate housing. Taking the World Bank's 1993 manifesto as a starting point and the subprime crisis as its first great international flashpoint, this essay traces some key elements of the neoliberal approach to housing and its impact on the enjoyment of the right to housing in different contexts and times. The reform of housing policy — with all its components of homeownership, private property and binding financial commitments — has been central to the political and ideological strategies through which the dominance of neoliberalism is maintained. Conversely, the crisis (and its origins in the housing market) reflects the inability of market mechanisms to provide adequate and affordable housing for all.