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Dr. A.K. Shukla M.A., Ph.D. (Goldmedalist) is presently working as a Senior Reader in the Department of political science at R.R. Post-graduate College Amethi-Sultanpur, U.P. He has been active in post-doctoral research works since 1992 and had been awarded major and minor research projects by the University Grants Commission, govt. of India, New Delhi. He had also been awarded SAARC Fellowship in 2003. His area of interest and specialization is in comparative politics and political sociology although he has completed his Ph.D. on Lok Sabha, which has been published by Tiwari Publications, ghonda, New Delhi in 1990. The main focus of the author had been on women studies. Besides the above the author is engaged in active social and cultural works also. He is the life member of Indian Institute of Public Administration and the Secretary General of International Goodwill Society of India, Amethi chapter.

R.B. Singh is Senior Faculty and Deputy Coordinator, UGC-DRS Programme, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Apart from being the Vice Chair of Steering Committee of the IGU Commission on Biogeography and Biodiversity, he is presently the member of the IUGG-IGU National Committee of INSA and Secretary General, NAGI. He has to his Credit 34 Books and about 160 Research papers. He has also presented papers in international seminars in more than 30 Countries on issues related to emerging frontiers of Geography like disaster management, GIS, remote sensing, Environmental studies, Climatic variability and Urban and regional development. The UNESCO/ISSC (Paris) awarded him 1998 Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences.