Rural development in India : multi-dimensional analysis

Rural development in India, in spite of concerted efforts for more than three decades which were mainly directed through general programmes of commu nity development and national ex tension service, and partly through such area and target group-oriented pro grammes as IAAP, IADP, SFDA, MFAL, HAD, TAP, COD, DPAP and IRDP has been more or less static. There has been very little impact on unemployment, poverty and the basic needs of the masses, mainly because of lack of political will, exploitation by the rural neo rich, inept and inefficient administration, defective planning, wrong priorities. As a result, the conditions of the rural masses continue to be distressing,

Rural Development in India considers the various issues and projects the views of many writers on a wide variety of problems, such as neglected sectors in integrated rural development, planning od rural poverty, rural industrial ment, rural asset accumulation, socio-economic typology villages, forms, agricultural price policy, agricultural growth, economic develop ment of the weaker sections, dairy development, rural public distribution, rural education, appropriate technology, droughtprone area development, evalua tion programmes of rural development. It also suggests the various steps that may be taken to ensure rural development in the eighties.