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G. Palanithurai teaches Political Science and Development Administration at the Post-Graduate level in Rural University, Gandhigram. Tamil Nadu, Currently he is the chairman of the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He has a number of books to his credit. Some of the important titles include “Reaction and Response in Legislature”, “Role Perception of Legislators”, “A Comparative Analysis of Political Performance of DMK and AIADMK”, “Perspectives on Indian Regionalism”, “Ethnic Movement in India: Theory and Practice”, Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity”, “Indian Polity: Myth and Reality” and “Management of ethnic Conflict in India and Canada”. He has written extensively in national and international Journals on Legislative Behaviour and Ethnicity. He has completed a major research project funded by ICSSR besides other minor projects. He was awarded Shastri Indo Canadian Institute fellowship to visit Canada and the US to write a book on Ethnic Conflict Management in Canada and India. He has undertaken major project entitled, “Strategies to stimulate upward Social Mobility”, with The Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry. He is actively involved in the thinktank group in Tamil Nadu to prepare an Agenda for 21st Century, Tamil Nadu. He is a life member of various professional associations.

G.Uma presently works as the Co-ordinators of The Hunger Project in Gandhigram Rural Institute. As a Co-ordinators of the project for Tamil Nadu, she co-ordinated woman leadership training programme for the elected woman representatives, especially woman presidents of Gram Panchayats. She was instrumental in sensitiizing the grassroots media to cover the struggle of the woman leaders in the Panchayat Raj System.

M.A. Thirunavukkarasu, the Field Co-ordinator of The Hunger Project, Gandhigram Rural Institute, is an activist working with people at grassroots level. He along with veteran Gandhian activists Jegannathan and Krishnammal, participated in tillers movements. He is an expert in micro-planning and he has facilitated the Panchayat leaders to prepare micro plan document for their respective panchayats.