Rural Transformation Comes With Opportunities And Challenges

Rural development is a complex and slow process of under taking diverse range of activities for welfare of masses which are deprived of luxury and comfort of developed cities. It requires a great amount of coordination between various sectors, with the impact of external environment posing a challenge due to its tendency to change rapidly. The change comes from internal as well as external processes such as privatization and globalization and over the years, the focus of the rural development programmes has shifted towards the overall economic and social upliftment of rural areas, through a sound strategy.The past five decades ....