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Decentralization is the key to the speedy, effective and participatory process of delivery of public services to the needy through development programmes of the Panch

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The mandate of the Committee was massive, to assess the status of women in India in all aspects of their lives, keeping in mind the diversities (class, caste, religion, ethnicity, region, abilities, age groups etc.), complexities and paradoxes that prevail in our society.

This paper explores poverty and gender analysis in the hill state of Uttarakhand from the perspective of mountain specificities that are interrelated and have direct bearing on the biophysical and socio-economic aspects of the mountain life.