Concepts of Rural Development
Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic
well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely
populated areas. Rural Development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of
land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and forestry.
Basic Elements of Rural Development
Basic Necessities in Life – food, shelter, clothes, basic literacy, primary health care and security of
life and security of life and property
Importance of Rural Development for creation of Sustainable
Livelihoods
Sustainable rural development is vital to the economic, social and environmental
viability of nations. It is essential for poverty eradication since global poverty is
overwhelmingly rural. The manifestation of poverty goes beyond the urban -rural divide,
it has subregional and regional contexts.
Programmes in the agricultural sector
Such programmes form the basis of most government and non-government efforts to assist rural
areas, and they include both agricultural and non-agricultural
• National Mission For Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) ...
• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) ...
• Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) ...
• Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) …
Programmes in the Social Security
The social security programmes in India at present provide for medical care, sickness
benefit, employment-injury benefit and the old-age and survivors' benefit in the form
of a provident fund and family pension. Neither invalidity benefit, unemployment benefit
nor family benefit are currently provided.
• Social Security. National Pension Scheme for Traders and Self Employed
Persons. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana. ...
• Minority Welfare.
• NGO-Voluntary Sector.
• Rural Poverty Alleviation.
• Unorganised Sector Welfare.
• Women and Child Development.
• Important documents for Indian citizens.
• Senior citizens Welfare.
•
Programmes in area of Social Sector
Accordingly, the thrust of the rural development programmes is on all-round economic and social
transformation of rural areas, through...
• Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
• Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin (SBM-G)
• Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban (SBM-U)
• Self-Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers (SRMS)
• National Health Mission (NHM)
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Nilokheri Experiment
The programme was originally started to rehabilitate 7000 displaced persons from Pakistan and later
integrated with the 100 surrounding villages
punjab
Shree S. K. Dey, was the founder
Sriniketan experiment
The Sriniketan Experiment of Tagore · Rabindranath Tagore 's work in “village reconstruction” at
Sriniketan is not as widely known as his work at .
State: West Bengal
Country: India
District: Birbhum
Lok Sabha constituency: Bolpur
Gurgaon Experiment
Rural uplift movement on a mass scale was first started by Mr. F.I. Brayne, Dy. Commissioner in the
Gurgaon district of Punjab in 1920. The work ..
Marthandam - Wikipedia
Marthandam is a major trade centre in Kuzhithuraii municipality across National Highway (NH 47) in
the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India.
Baroda State
This movement was started by V.T. Krishnachari in 1932 in the Baroda state where he was Dewan
at that time. In the first instant its
The basic idea underlying the rural reconstruction experiment in the rural areas around Baroda
were: "The single outstanding fact in the
Firka Development
19-Jun-2010 — It was government sponsored and aimed at the attainment of the Gandhian ideal of
Gram Swaraj. The scheme was launched in 1946 in 34 Firkas
Etawa pilot project
The idea of this pilot project was conceived in 1945 but was put into action in September, 1948 at
Mahewa Village about 11 miles away from Etawah in United …
approaches to rural community development: Tagore ,
Tagore's concept was self-reliance and self-help through community development
projects, cooperative credit, spread of basic education, use of science and technology in
agriculture, development of cottage industries, in general, establishment of a genuine
relationship with the village folk and understanding their …
approaches to rural community development: Gandhi
Gandhi firmly believes that village republics can be built only through decentralisation of
social and political power. In such a system decision -making power will be vested in the
Village Panchayat rather than in the State and the national capital. ... The Panchayat
exercises legislative, executive and judicial functions.
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Bureaucracy
The term bureaucracy (/bjʊəˈrɒkrəsi/) may refer both to a body of non-elected governing officials
(bureaucrats) and to an administrative policy-making group. [1] Historically, a bureaucracy was a government
administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. [2] Today, bureaucracy is the
administrative system governing any large institution, whether publicly owned or privately owned. [3][4]
structure of administration
Administrative structures involve the management and operation of the respective
systems/entities and their leadership. ... Often, divisions of responsibility within
organisations are assigned titles, such as upper, middle, and lower management, and
have functions similar to those of coordination and control entities.
Panchayati Raj Institutions Emergence and Growth of Panchayati Raj
Institutions in India;
The Panchayat Raj system was first adopted by the state of Bihar by the Bihar
Panchayat Raj Act of 1947. It was a continued legacy of local self government started
by Lord Ripon in the British era. Later it was implemen ted by Rajasthan in Nagaur
district on 2 October 1959.
