S. Mahendra Dev is currently Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. He has been a consultant and adisor to many international organisations like the UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute and ESCAP. He has been a member of several government Committees including Prime Minister's Task Force on Employment. He is also a member of the Committee on Financial Inclusion charied by Dr. C. Rangaranjan. \n\nK.S. Babu is a Faculty Member at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad. He was the project director of the study Yanadi Development Plan' submitted to Government of Andhra Pradesh. His current research focuses on NGOs and rural development. \n