Articles by B S Baviskar

As the leading state in the field, Maharashtra has witnessed the rise and stagnation of cooperatives and gathered much experience on the way. The state administration must now learn to be a facilitator rather than a controller.

National Dairy Development Board B S Baviskar Shanti George This paper analyses how the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which designs and implements Operation Flood, reacted to the controversy it aroused. The focus is on aspects of the controversy that are of developmental interest IF developmental programmes are intended to renew and invigorate the body politic, controversy can play the role of adrenalin by stimulating, speeding up and intensifying these processes.

Operation Flood: A Different View B S Baviskar Shanti George WE welcome K T Achaya and Vinod K Huria's article "Rural Poverty and Operation Flood" (EPW, September 13). Since the third phase of Operation Flood has been recently inaugurated and aid for this phase is being negotiated with international agencies, the article is well timed to generate discussion of the various issues involved in the world's largest, most ambitious, and most controversial dairy development programme. What Achaya and Huria have to say on the subject is of special interest since they are the authors of an earlier article on the subject (EPW. November 8, 1980), an article notable for its wide range and stimulus to thought.

Co-operatives in Anthropological Perspective Report of a Symposium on Co-operatives and Rural Development D W Attnood B S Baviskar Shanti George AN international symposium on 'Cooperatives and Rural Development' was held last August near Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with the Xlth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. This symposium was sponsored by the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Xlth ICAES, and McGill University. The symposium lasted for three days and was followed, two days later, by a reporting session at the main ICAES meetings in Quebec city.

Operation Flood and Social Science Research B S Baviskar IT was interesting to see the letters by V Kurien and Raymond Crotty in the same issue (EPW, April 2). Both of them arc important figures in the field of dairy development The contributions and achievements of Kurien are well known the world over. As former General Manager of the Amul Dairy and present Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and the Indian Dairy Corporation (IDC), he is the main architect of India's dairy policy and programmes. It is largely because of his leadership that the Amul Dairy and the NDDB are recognised for their efficiency, professionalism, and lack of blatent corruption