IAS (Admin.) Mains Sociology Social Changes in India-Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India Study Material (Page 4 of 7)

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Programmes of Rural Development

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Programmes of Rural Development

Introduction

  • Rural development was one of the highest agenda of the government of India as most of the population lived in rural areas. Rural development was also significant for food security for our huge population and achieving the ideal of socio-economic equality as enshrined in our constitution.
  • Further, rural development was necessary to minimize urban – rural inequality, to check migration and to provide a decent standard of living those living in rural areas.
  • In recent times also, rural development is a big planning concern as it became clear that the earlier strategies adopted remained largely unsuccessful in improving pov…

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Rural and Agrarian Transformation

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Rural and Agrarian Transformation

  • Rural and agrarian transformation agenda was taken with the planned development process. India was a mainly agrarian economy and so, attention to rural areas was all, but natural. Rural and agrarian transformation projects included improving the standard of life in rural areas, enhancing agrarian productivity, addressing the problem of rural poverty, improving education and health, redistributing the land etc.
  • Earlier approaches which were mostly top-down were later modified. In the realm of agricultural produc…

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