Rural Development : Need and Importance

 Importance of Rural Development

 Improvement in the quality of life of rural people is the important agenda of rural development programme. 

 In India – a country where the number of people living in rural areas, rural development programme is necessary aspect. 

 Rural development implies both the economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation. 

 The basic objective of all rural development endeavours / programmes has been the welfare of the millions. 

 With time and experience, it is realized that accelerated and meaningful development can be achieved only if people of the grass root are involved, “people’s participation” has become the keyword in rural development programmes. 

 To provide the rural people with better prospects for economic development.  

Need and Importance of Rural Development

Rural development is a national necessity and has considerable importance in India because of the following reasons: 

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 develop infrastructure facility of rural area.

6. To provide minimum facility to rural mass in terms of drinking water, education, transport, electricity and communication.

7. To develop rural institutions like panchayat, cooperatives, post, banking and credit.

8. To provide financial assist to develop the artisans in the rural areas, farmers and agrarian

unskilled labor, small and big rural entrepreneurs to improve their economy.

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 solve the problems faced by the rural mass for their development.