Rural Development

Rural Development Programmes
- Innovative Stream for Rural Housing and Habitat Development -Aim is to assure innovative and proven housing technologies, designs and materials in rural areas.
- BusinessWorld : Winning in Villages : Six Interesting Initiatives in Rural India : Mar 26, 2007 (gif)
- Watershed Development Programmes
- Programmes of Department of Rural Development — the Projects Undertaken
- Poverty Alleviation Programs
  - Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment (TRYSEM) -TRYSEM aims at providing basic technical and entrepreneurial skills to the rural poor.
  - Anti-Poor Laws and Policies -Spending money is not the only way of ameliorating the conditions of the poor.
  - Central Rural Sanitation Programme -Objective of the scheme is to provide subsidy for construction of sanitary latrine.
  - Development Of Women And Children In Rural Areas (DWCRA) -DWCRA aims at strengthening the gender component of IRDP.
  - Food and Nutrition Security Program -Country adopted multi-sectoral, multi-pronged strategy to combat food-nutrition problems
  - Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) -Self-Employment Programmes
  - Relevant Articles
    - A Model Producer Company (PC) -A model for Agricultural knowledge Delivery System
    - Alleviating Rural Poverty through Low-cost and Biological Approaches -A Proposed outline
    - India leaves Bharat behind- rural india scenario -Chetan Chauhan
    - Rural Development in India – Strategies and Programs : by Kashif Rajani -Poverty eradication is considered integral to humanitys quest for sustainable development.
    - Poverty Alleviation in Rural India: Programmes and Strategy -Economic growth creates more resources and has the potential of creating more space for poor,
Government Acts & Schemes
- Poverty Alleviations Schemes
- 73rd Amendment Act, 1992 -Providing Constitutional Status to the Panchyati Raj Institutions
- Credit cum Subsidiary Scheme for rural Housing -The target group will be a rural household having an annual income of upto Rs 32000/- only.
- Rural Building Centres Scheme – by Ministry of Rural Development -About 1.2 to 2 acres of land is required for setting up a Building Centre.
- DRDA Administration
- National Social Assitance Programme and Annapurna
- Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
- Rural Housing
- Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
- National Food For Work Programme
- Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana
- National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Current Intiatives in Rural Development
- - Summary of responses to “How to provide cooking fuel in rural areas within 1 km of the village?” -(compiled by Integrated Research and Action for Development – IRADe) (pdf)
  - Malnutrition Matters Project Winner of the World Bank -Catalsyt Publication ; Issue No 6 ; June 2007
  - If “all the NRIs adopted a village each in India
  - Experience of NRI Volunteers in India
- Enabling ICT for Rural India -Importance of E-Governance arises from the prolonged absence of self-sufficiency in rural areas.
- Rural banking
  - NABARD – An Apex Development Bank -NABARD has the mandate to support all economic activities in rural areas.
  - Related Study on Rural Banking : The Performance of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India -Regional Rural Banks have been in existence for around three decades in the Indian financial scene.
Rural Development Organisations
- Deeshaa Ventures -innovative economic model for rural india – RISC
- Drishtee -Created 1500 jobs in the rural segment, know more
- Center for Rural Development :Assam -Promotion of SHG , Gram Shree Mela & More
- The Paul Foundation -Funding agency -grants to women groups & women organisations
- Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) -NGO working for Market Linkage of Farmers
- Organizations for Rural and Tribal Category in Mumbai
Reports / Research Papers
- A UN Report on the State of the World’s Indigenous People – 2009 -Economic and Social Affairs Department (pdf)
Messages posted by users
- Post your messages -Karmayog offers you an online space where you can discuss, invite feedback and get support.
Articles contributed by users
- Rural Health Scheme Bulletin – March 2007 -Contributed by Praful Vora (pdf)
- Site visitors are invited to post their articles directly here -Procedure to post articles, documents, photographs, etc. is given here
India Fellow 2008 -Summer Rural Fellowship Program for Rural Youth
Academic courses in Rural development
- Diploma in Integrated Rural Energy Technology: Delhi -By Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Integrated Rural Energy Planning & Development (Closg Date: May 30)
- CISED Short-Term Course on Environment & Rural Development -September 11-21, 2007 -Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Rural Management -Post-graduate Programme in Rural Management
- Xavier Institute of Social Service -Post-graduate Diploma in Rural Management
- Institute of Rural Management -Post-Graduate Programme in Rural Management
- Centre for Rural Development Studies, Bangalore University -MA in Rural Development/M Phil/PhD
- Gandhigram Rural Institute -MA, Rural Development and Management
Education Status in Rural India
- Rural Per Capita Expenditure on Education in India – Survey Report -There’s been a significant increase in the real per capita expenditure on education.
- Household Expenditure on School Education in Rural India -Summary of paper by Jandhyala B.G. Tilak on Determinants of Household Expenditure on Education.
- Educating Rural People – Article by John Daniel -Are governments really committed to educating rural people?
- School System in India – A Critical Analysis by Neeru Nanda -Education places an overriding value on products over people, on achievement over harmony.
- Rural Primary Education – Write-up by Vimala Ramachandran -Statistics showed a cent percent enrolment, but also a high dropout rate.