Subject(s): Employment and growth -national perspective : 7th five year plan, organised sector,cost of labour in organised sector, Urbanisation and migration, rural work force, Regional disparities in agricultural growth, employment generation -- Major rural employment programmes of government of India: Integrated rural employment programme, rural landless labour employmnet guarantee programme, Jawahar rojgar yojana -- Employment profile of Maharashtra : Population, urbanisation, migration, employment in the organised sector, employment trends in rural sector, regional variations in rural employment -- Employment guarantee scheme: Right to work, Employment guarantee fund, employment trends on EGS, registration of labour under EGS, -- EGS; Wage rate, Agricultural operations, Occupational and landholding pattern, Female labour, Ration of labour material cost -- Maharashtra's agriculture at cross roads -- Water management : Irrigation, Water allocation polices, cropping pattern, efficiency of water distribution, Pani panchayat, Subsidies water rates, Subsidised electricity tariff for agricultural consumers, Groundwater development and exploitation -- Land management, technology ad rural employment : labour absorption in agriculture, Technological changes and increased labour use, land developed, water harvesting and recycling, cse studies from Ralegan Shindi village, Aadgon village, Palaskheda village -- Some illustrative areas for diversification rural employment : sericulture, horticulture , Dairy development, Sheep and Goat development -- Growing unemployment, Public works programmes, development strategy