West Bengal’s health sector. Includes writings by Sujit K. Das & Jayati Ghosh titled ‘Left Front’s Health Crisis’ and ‘West Bengal’s Health Secret’. Also, includes West Bengal Human Development Report 2004, Evaluation of DFID Country Programmes: West Bengal, 2000-2006, etc.
a) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1
b) Documents focusing on development parameters in West Bengal & Kerala
c) Strength of Left Parties in West Bengal, Kerala & Tripura since time of independence: Election data for these three states
Protests in Singur and Nandigram. Includes People’s Democracy and Mainstream articles titled ‘Left Front Govt. and Bengal’s Industrialisation’, ‘Citizen’s Chargesheet on West Bengal Government’s Development Policies’, ‘Singur Kisans Call for Industrialisation’, ‘Singur, Nandigram and Industrialisation of West Bengal’, etc. Also, includes Interim Report of the Citizens’ Committee on Singur and Nandigram, Paschim Banga Khet Majdoor Samiti report titled ‘Before and After Nandigram Mass Killings’ and some press clippings
a) People’s Tribunal on Nandigram: 26-28 May 2007
b) Nandigram: A Critical Evaluation by Gautam Sen
c) A Timeline of Nandigram: One year and more (22 August 2005 - 22 February 2008)
d) A Timeline of Singur (18 May 2006 - 15 June 2008)
a) ‘The Pratichi Education Report II: Primary Education in West Bengal, Changes and Challenges’. Includes an Introduction by Amartya Sen
b) Material on NREGA implementation in West Bengal and India. Includes an action aid document titled ‘Bleeding the lifeline-Tryst with NREGA in West Bengal’ and a paper by J. Breman & J. Varinder titled ‘The Long Road to Social Security’
Pratichi Education Report II; NREGA; West Bengal; India