Introduction To Rural Development By:Sakshi Patil Roll No 8129 Sybba

Introduction to Rural Development
By:Sakshi Patil
Roll no 8129
SYBBA
Meaning and defination
 As a concept, it connotes overall development of rural areas with a view to improve
the quality of life rural people. As a discipline, it is multi-disciplinary in nature
representing an intersection of agricultural, social, behavioural and management of
sciences. In short, rural development is a process that aims at improving the
standard of living of the people living in the rural areas.
 Rural development can be defined as, helping rural people set the priorities in their
own communities through effective and democratic bodies, by providing the local
capacity; investment in basic infrastructure and social services, justice, equity and
security, dealing with the injustices of the past and ensuring safety and security of
the rural population, especially that of women.
 According to Robert chambers, rural development is a strategy to enable a specific
group of people, poor rural women and men, to gain for themselves and their
children more of what they want and need.  It involves helping the poorest among
those who seek a livelihood in the rural areas to demand and control more of the
benefits of rural development.  The group includes small scale farmers, tenants
and the landless.
 We shall define rural development as A Process leading to sustainable improvement
in the quality of life of rural people, specially the poor.
 The definition or rural development may be centered around income criterion in
which the concept is made to address the problem of rural poverty.  The rural poor
represents a reservoir of untapped talent a target group that should be given the
opportunity to enjoy the benefits of development through improved education,
health and nutrition. This is one of the most important definitions of rural
development as the provision of social infrastructures could provide the catalyst that
would transform the rural areas.
 Rural development may also be seen as an ideology and a practice.It may mean
planned change by public agencies based outside the rural areas such as the national
Government and International organization. Rural development as the improvement
in the living standard of the rural dwellers by engaging them in productive activities
such as the establishment of rural industries that will increase their income.It is seen
by these scholars as a means of raising the sustainable living of the rural poor by
giving them the opportunity to develop their full potentials.
Importance of rural development
 Rural development is important not only for the majority of the population residing
in a rural area but the growth of rural activities is necessary to stimulate the speed of
overall economic expansion of the nation.
 Rural development is pretended to be noticeable importance in the country today
than in the olden days in the process of the evolution of the nation. It is a strategy
trying to obtain improved rural creation and productivity, higher socio-economic
equality, and ambition, stability in social and economic development.
 The primitive task is to decrease the famine roughly about 70 percent of the rural
population, implement sufficient and healthy food. Later, serve fair equipment of
clothing and footwear, a clean environment and house, medical attention,
recreational provision, education, transport, and communication.
Objectives of Rural Development
 The aim objectives composed by the government in the sixth five-year plan for rural
development are.
 To improve productivity and the wages of rural people.
 To guarantee increased and quick employment possibilities.
 To demolish unemployment and a notable decline in underemployment.
 To guarantee to increase the standard of living of the underprivileged population.
 To provide the basic needs – e.g. elementary education, health care, clean drinking
water, and, rural roads, etc.
Scope of Improvement
 The primary area to improve should be providing employment in rural areas and
improving the productivity of the agricultural sector. Often villages in our countries
are not in sync with the urban areas because of bad connectivity. Eventually, this
leads to segregation and a social divide between urban and rural areas. In essence,
the infrastructure of rural areas should drastically improve. Even after so many
years of Independence, stigmas like the caste system still have a grip on rural
people.
 Quality education can help in achieving the goal of eradication of such social evils.
The dwindling literacy rates in rural India, especially for females, are a major matter
of concern. There is a need for land and technical reforms. Modern technologies like
organic farming should be incorporated to improve outputs and profits. Lastly,
people should be given access to easy credit and loans by improving the banking
system in rural areas.
 It can be easily concluded, that for the development of an economy in both rural and
urban areas need to be focused upon. Rural areas need drastic changes in areas like
infrastructure, credit availability, literacy, poverty eradication, etc. The schemes that
are already in place with the aim of rural development need a new outlook and
proper updating. Accordingly, the government needs to act for the upliftment of
Need of Rural Development in India
 The rural economy is an example of an agrarian economy. Although farming and
agriculture are one of the most important primary activities, the problem lies in the
fact that they share in the GDP of the agriculture sector is on a constant decline. At
the same time, about two-thirds of India’s population depends on agriculture. As a
result, the productivity is not up to the mark, with conditions only getting worse.
 Moreover, public investment declined since 1991 coupled with a lack of adequate
infrastructure, credit, transport, employment, etc. Henceforth the agricultural output
has grown at only 3.2% during 2007-2011. All these factors have been denting the
process of development. Therefore there is a need to focus on rural development
and not just urban development.

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