Core Committee

Foreword from Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

Message from Chief Minister, Sikkim

Message from Member, Planning Commission

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

         
1. Sikkim: Development Profile and Future Directions

1.1 Sikkim’s Performance at the National Level

1.2 Development of Social and Economic Infrastructure

1.3 Sikkim’s Development Profile in the Regional Context

1.4 Intrastate Development Trends

1.5 Objectives of State Development Report

         
2. Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development

2.1 Resource Base

2.2 Waste and Pollution Management

2.3 Participatory Approach to Sustainable Development

2.4 Sikkim Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
   (SBSAP): A Critique

2.5 Recommendations
 

        
3. Economic Growth, Structural Change and Employment

3.1 Growth: Trend and Composition

3.2 Structural Change

3.3 Employment

3.4 Pattern and Composition of the
      Workforce

3.5 Workforce Participation and
      Trends in Employment

3.6 State No Longer a Major Employer

3.7 Ensuring Livelihood to All

3.8 Ensuring Regionally Balanced Growth

3.9 Assessing the Growth in the Labour Force

3.10 Growing Unemployment:
        Migration to Urban Centres

3.11 Strategies for Employment Generation

3.12 Elements of an Employment
       Oriented Strategy

3.13 Employment Generating Schemes

3.14 Recent Initiatives of the Government

3.15 Conclusions and Recommendations
 

4. Fiscal and Financial Management

4.1 State’s Own Resources: Tax Revenues

4.2 State’s Own Resources: Non-tax Revenues

4.3 Transfers from the Centre

4.4 Borrowing Requirements

4.5 Utilisation of Resources:
      Trends in Expenditure

4.6 Fiscal Reform Programme
      and MTFRP

4.7 Deficits and Debt

4.8 Fiscal Decentralisation

4.9 Recommendations and
      Conclusions
     

    
5. Education

5.1 Educational Institutions

5.2 Effective Literacy Rates

5.3 Plan Expenditure on Education

5.4 Educational Infrastructure

5.5 Accessibility to Elementary
      Education

5.6 Quality of Education

5.7 Teacher Recruitment Policy

5.8 Higher and Technical/Professional
      Education

5.9 Smart School Concept

5.10 Subsidies and Privatisation

5.11 Library Facilities

5.12 Investment in Education and
        Employment Prospects

5.13 Recommendations
 

        
6. Health

6.1 Sex Ratio Intrigues

6.2 Plan Expenditure on Health

6.3 Poverty and Malnutrition

6.4 Reproductive Health Related Issues

6.5 Status of Immunisation

6.6 Environmental Sanitation

6.7 Health Infrastructure

6.8 Utilisation of Health Services

6.9 Traditional Medicines

6.10 Major Morbidity Cases

6.11 Geography and Environment

6.12 Urban Environment and Sanitation:
        AusAid Intervention

6.13 Sikkim Manipal University: Changing
        Face of the Health Sector

6.14 Health Insurance

6.15 Recommendations

   
7. Infrastructure: Roads,
    Telecommunications and Power

7.1 Importance of Basic Infrastructure

7.2 The Road Network

7.3 Transport

7.4 Telecommunications and Information
      Technology

7.5 Power Development: Structure,
      Potentials and Challenges

7.6 Recommendations

         
8. Agriculture, Horticulture and
    Animal Husbandry

8.1 The Nature of Agriculture and Related
      Sectors in the State

8.2 Agriculture and Horticulture:
      Issues and Constraints

8.3 Agriculture and Horticulture:
      Recommendations

8.4 Animal Husbandry: Analysis and
      Recommendations

9. Industry and Trade

9.1 Importance of Industry and Trade

9.2 Status of Industry

9.3 ‘Sickness Syndrome’

9.4 Identifying Appropriate Industries

9.5 Policy Initiatives—Present and
      Past: A Critical Analysis

9.6 Newer Approaches

         
10. Tourism

10.1 The Potential for Tourism

10.2 Importance for Balanced Growth:
        The Multiplier and Leakages

10.3 An Analysis of Tourist Traffic

10.4 Overall Strategy for Developing Tourism

10.5 Sustainability: Focus on Non-mass
        Market Tourism

10.6. Recommendations

10.7 Agreement with China
         

11. Rural Development.

11.1 Economic Profile of the Rural Sector

11.2 Rural Infrastructure

11.3 Community Development and
        Panchayati Raj Institutions

11.4 Schemes and Programmes for Rural
     Development: A Critical Analysis

11.5 Recommendations

         
12. Development of Forest Resources

12.1 Background

12.2 Emerging Issues

12.3 Joint Forest Management

12.4 Recommendations

         
13. Urban Development

13.1 The Current Pattern of Urban Growth
        and Development

13.2 Gangtok: An Appraisal of the
        City’s Development

13.3 Other Urban Areas

13.4 Recommendations
         

14. Development of Scheduled Castes
     and Scheduled Tribes

14.1 Ethnic Groups in Sikkim

14.2 Analysis of Some Basic Statistics

14.3 Schemes and Programmes for Development
        of SC, ST, and OBC Communities

14.4 Sikkim Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and 
       Other Backward Classes Development 
       Corporation (SABCCO)

14.5 Initiatives Taken by the State

14.6 Recommendations
       

 
Annexures