Ttitles and sub-titles that are intended for debates in the Development Forum.

1. Kerala Development: A Socio-Cultural Analysis.
• Role of various social sects in Kerala development
• Islamic interventions in Kerala’s public sphere
• Specialties and weaknesses of Leftist Kerala
• Political parties in Kerala: A social analysis
• Kerala Development: Media interventions
• Scientific rationale in Kerala development
• Out of state labours and Kerala’s employment sector

2. Human Development Index
• Women, children, male and female relations
• Elderly and disabled citizens
• Family
• Communal relations
• Alcohol, drugs, gambling
• Human rights
• Spirituality
• Development and gender equality
• Development and values
• Muslim women and development
• Kerala development and colonies

3. Malabar backwardness
• Union Territories in India and Malabar
• Industrial, educational and health backwardness
• Government jobs; representation, administrative divisions, budget
• Transportation and railway
• Malabar: history and present
• Malabar and Malayalam language
• Post-independence development of Malabar

4. Reservation and Kerala Development
• History of reservation
• Reservation and development
• Reservation in education sector
• Reservation hijacks
• Reservation and Dalit Christians
• Reservation and reserved communities

5. Comprehensive transportation policy for Kerala
• Kerala’s transportation development in line of international standard
• Highway construction and maintenance
• Cochin Metro
• Railway
• Water transportation
• Ideal transportation policy

6. Land reform and land struggles
• Land reform: problems and challenges
• Dalits and land in Kerala
• Land utilization and distribution in Kerala
• Land invasion


7. Education
• Reforms in school education sector: An analysis
• Future of reforms in higher education sector
• Role of teachers and educational institutions
• Health and sports education
• Representation of marginalized sects
• Educational theories
• Resource preservation in educational sector
• Alternative educational models

8. Challenges in health sector
• Lifestyle diseases, mental health
• Kerala model health and challenges
• Commercialization of health sector
• Public health programs
• Health education
• Health insurance
• Prospects of homeopathy
• Prospects of Ayurveda
• Prospects of Unani

9. Agriculture in Kerala
• Change in agricultural crops
• Farmhouse agriculture
• Local seeds and cross bread seeds
• Soil fertility
• Agriculture based small scale industries
• The concept of agriculture
• Genetically Modified crops (GM Crops)
• Organic farming
• Conventional farming techniques
• Food security

10. Waste Management
• Waste management: Individual and society’s approach
• Urban waste management
• Kerala model of rural waste management
• New generation waste: Problems and solutions

11. Financial resources and expenditure pattern
• Kerala’s revenue resources
• Revenues: Tax, NRI, International debt, Industry, investment pockets
• Expenses: B.O.T, Deposit-credit ratio, banks and other financial institutions


12. Energy Crisis and solutions
• Energy sector in Kerala
• Non-conventional energy opportunities
• Electricity board reshuffling
• Kerala’s hydro-electric projects
• Energy sources and utilization

13. Prospects of Kerala’s Industrial sector
• Industrial policy of new Kerala
• Industrial possibilities: a concentrated study
• Conventional small scale industry
• Basic facility industry
• Tourism
• Fisheries
• Trade unions and industrial sector

14. Expatriation and Development
• Kerala model development and expatriation
• Problems of expatriates and solutions
• Employment and human rights issues of expatriates
• Expatriates and family life
• European expatriation and Middle East expatriation
• Expatriate capital and Kerala’s economy.