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Vol. 10 No. 2.0 (2021)
Scholar : National School of Leadership

Research Articles

A study of India’s rural development programmes

Published 2021-12-31

  • SOUMYA G.S
    • ,
  • DAISY SAMUEL

SOUMYA G.S
MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE

DAISY SAMUEL
MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE

Abstract

Rural development has gained international attention, particularly among developing countries, and it is critical for a country like India. Rural development focuses on the development of rural economies that are suffering from severe poverty and effectively seeks to increase their production. It also emphasises the importance of addressing several critical concerns that impede village economies growth and improvement. The Indian government has announced a number of rural development projects. Housing is a big issue in rural India, as is the lack of infrastructure in villages and towns to connect communities via all-weather roads and the lack of employment prospects in villages. The government of India has announced the Pradhan Pmantri Awas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G) Scheme to provide houses, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY) scheme to build roads, and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to provide employment to rural people in this paper. These three programmes are critical to India’s rural development. According to the report, 44.54 lakh residence were built under the PMAY-G scheme during 2017-18, compared to a target of 1.00 crore houses by March 2019. In 2017-18, the speed of PMGSY road construction hit an eight-year high of 134 kilometres per day. Compared to an average of 73 kilometres from 2011 to 2014. During the financial year 2017-18, MGNREGA supplied employment to 5.12 crore households by producing more than 234.25 crore person days of wage employment encompassing 177 lakh jobs.

Keywords

houses and employment, road length, rural development

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