Rural Developmen: Concept, Meaning, definition; Various rural developmen Programmes launched by Govt. of India.(ICDS, IRDP, NHM, MNREGA,Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for empowerment of Adolescent girls/boys, Geamin Bhandaran Yojana , Pradhan Mantri Gram Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal vikas Yojana)
The Concept of Rural Development
Rural - Is an area, where the people are engaged in primary industry in the sense that
they produce things directly for the first time in cooperation with nature as stated by
Srivastava (1961).
A society or community can be classified as rural based on the criteria of lower
population density, less social differentiation, less social and spatial mobility, slow rate of
social change, etc. Agriculture would be the major occupation of rural area.
Development: It refers to growth, evolution, stage of inducement or progress.
This progress or growth is gradual and had sequential phases. Always there is increasing
differentiation. It also refers to the over all movement towards greater efficiency and
complex situations.
Rural Development (RD) : is a process which aims at improving the well being and
self-realisation of people living outside the urbanized areas through collective process.
According to Agarwal (1989),rural development is a strategy designed to improve
the economic and social life of rural poor.