Rural development

RURALDEVELOPMENT
PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

"India lives in its
villages“
- Mahatma Gandhi.
Real Bharat

OVERVIEW
• Our economy is developing fast, Industries and big
corporate are going globalised, with liberalization,
tremendous changes are being felt in IT, manufacturing,
Service sector, but nobody thinks of the rural
development to make it as fast asin these sectors.
• Then what all this progress and development means?
Benefitting to 30% in the total population, already
developed and above poverty does not mean any
development.

SOME QUESTIONS THAT TAKE YOU
MORE DEEP IN TOPIC.
(For us this are the MOTIVATIONAL
QUESTIONS for selecting this topic )

• While we have international fully air conditioned schools
in our cities, the schools in villages still don’t have
benches and chairs, leave alone computers. We have a
huge shortage of teachers in rural areas, and the school
drop out rate is huge.
WHY RURALAREAS LAG BEHIND CITIES BY
DECADES?
QUESTION : 1

QUESTION : 2
• In cities, we have wide roads, flyovers and underpasses
while many villages still don’t have proper roads.
Urban-rural road links can play a vital role in rural
growth.
• WHY RURALAREAS LAG BEHIND CITIES IN
GROWTH ?

Employment opportunities are hardly there in villages
which forces youth to move to cities creating
imbalance in the ecosystem and leaving the villages
deprived.
WHY LACK OF OPPORTUNITY IN RURAL
AREA ?
QUESTION : 3

• While we may have numerous hospitals, nursing
homes and medical facilities in cities, villages neither
have health awareness nor health facilities.
• Many of villagers have to flock to cities for even basic
treatments.
WHY RISING DISCONNECT BETWEEN CITIES
AND VILLAGES?
QUESTION : 4

And Many More QUESTIONS like..
• Proper land reforms
• Rural credit
• Electrification
• Many more Questions & this Story
Continues from decades…….

MAINOBJECTIVES

CONTINUE..
• Worthy statutory infrastructure for the rural
landscape
• Creating conditions for the sustenance of a
population and all types of sustainable rural
settlement.

CONTINUE..
• Raising awareness
• Government support
• AlternativeAssistance

RURAL 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.
• Rural areas are separately settled places away from the influence of large cities and
towns. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and sub-urban areas, and
also from unsettled lands or wilderness, such as forest.
• Rural areas can have an agricultural character, though many rural areas are characterized by
an economy based on cottage industry, mining, oil and gas exploration, or tourism.

RURAL COMMUNITY
A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together, in a village.
A Rural 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 is the major occupation of rural people.
MAIN FEATURES OF RURAL COMMUNITY
• Village is an institution-The Village is a primary institution. The development of
villages is influenced considerably by the life of the village. It satisfies almost all the
needs of the rural.
• Community-They have a sense of unity and a feeling of belongingness towards each
other.
• Religion-Faith in religion and universal power is found in the life of the villages.
• Agriculture-Main occupation is agriculture which involves dependence on nature.
Nature gives the livelihood to them. Farmers worship forces of nature.

LIFE OF RURAL PEOPLE
• Lifestyles in rural areas are different than
those in urban areas, mainly because
limited services are available.
• Governmental services like law
enforcement, schools, fire departments,
and libraries may be distant, limited in
scope, or unavailable.
• Utilities like water, sewer, street lighting,
and garbage collection may not be
present.
• Public transport is sometimes absent or
very limited, people use their own
vehicles, walk or ride an animal. PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

• Rural development is a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of rural
poor.
• It is a process, which aims at improving the well being and self realization of people living
outside the urbanized areas through collective process.
• Rural Development is all about bringing change among rural community from the
traditional way of living to progressive way of living. It is also expressed as a
movement for progress.
The United Nations defines Rural Development as:
“Rural Development is a process of change, by which the efforts
of the people themselves are united, those of government
authorities to improve their economic, social and cultural
conditions of communities in to the life of the nation and to
enable them to contribute fully to national programme.” PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

Rural development is a process of qualitative and quantitative changes to improve
conditions in rural regions. Such a process needs to be an integrated programme where
all aspectsof rural life shouldbe taken into account.
Promotion and encouragement to the private sector players by the Indian
Government as a result of which both the public and private sector has made
considerable efforts for the upliftment of the rural sector in India which has resulted in
ethical, social and environmental benefits. Playing the role as a motivator, and a
facilitator, the Government had undertaken a number of development initiatives for
the rural India.
With a vision to create an excellent rural infrastructure on the back of transport
and telecommunication facilities, provision of education and medical facilities to all
rural households, it is important that the threads be woven together in order to reflect
the utmost significance of rural sector for the growth Indianeconomy. PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

OBJECTIVES OF RURAL DEV.
1.To develop farm, home, public service and village
community.
2.To bring improvement in producing of crops and
animals living condition.
3.To improve health and education condition etc.
improvement of the rural people.
4.To improve villagers with their own efforts.
5.To improve village communication.

PROBLEMS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT
1.People related
2.Agricultural related problems
3.Infrastructure related problems
4.Economic problems
5.Social and Cultural problems
6.Leadership related problems
7.Administrative problems

PEOPLE RELATED PROBLEMS
1.Traditional way of thinking.
2.Poor understanding.
3.Low level of education to understand
developmental efforts and new technology.
4.Deprived psychology and scientific
orientation.
5.Lack of confidence.
6.Poor awareness.
7.Low level of education.
8.Existence of unfelt needs.
9.Personal ego. PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

AGRICULTURE RELATED PROB.

INFASTRUCTRAL
RELATED PROB.
Poor infrastructure facilities like-:
1.Water
2.Electricity
3.Transport
4.Educational institutions
5.Communication
6.Health
7.Employment
8.Storage facility etc.

ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS
1. Unfavourable economic condition to
adopt high cost technology.
2. High cost of inputs.
3. Under privileged
rural industries

LEADERSHIP RELATED
PROBLEM
1.Leadership among the hands
of inactive and incompetent people.
2. Self interest of leaders.
3. Biased political will

ADMINISTRATIVE
PROBLEMS
1. Political interference.
2. Lack of motivation and interest.
3. Unwillingness to work in villages.
4. Improper utilization of budget.
5. No proper monitoring of program
and lack in their implementation.

SCOPE & IMPORTANCE OF
RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Importance of Rural Development
• Rural development is a dynamic process, which
is mainly concerned with the rural areas. These
include-
• Agricultural growth, putting up of economic and
social infrastructure, fair wages as also housing
and house sites for the landless, village planning,
public health, education and functional literacy,
communication etc.
• Rural development is a national necessity and
has considerable importance in India PROF:DARSHAN V. PATEL

Rural development is needed because-
1.To develop rural area as whole in terms of culture, society, economy,
technology and health.
2. To develop living slandered of rural mass.
3. To develop rural youths, children and women.
4.To develop and empower human resource of rural area in terms of
their psychology, skill, knowledge, attitude and other abilities.
5.To solve the problems faced by the rural mass for their
development.

6.To develop infrastructure facility of rural area.
7.To provide minimum facility to rural mass in terms of drinking
water, education, transport, electricity and communication.
8.To develop rural institutions like Panchayat, cooperatives,
post, banking and credit.
9.To develop rural industries through the development of handicrafts,
small scaled industries, village industries, rural crafts, cottage
industries and other related economic operations in the rural sector.
10. To develop agriculture, animal husbandry and
other agricultural related areas.

11.To restore uncultivated land, provide irrigation facilities and
motivate farmers to adopt improved seed, fertilizers, package of
practices of crop cultivation and soil conservation methods.
12.To develop entertainment and recreational facility for
rural mass.
13.To develop leadership quality of rural area.
14.To improve rural marketing facility.
15. To minimise gap between the urban and rural in
terms of facilities availed.

16.To improve rural people’s participation in the
development of state and nation as whole.
17.To improve scopes of employment for rural mass.
18.For the sustainable development of rural area.
19.To eliminate rural poverty.
20.To empower them.

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