Monday, June 9, 2008

RURAL DEVELOPMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY

RURAL DEVELOPMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY

Rural development is the strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of specific group – the rural poor which comprises small and marginal farmers, tenants, the lend less rural artisans. With modernization and monetization of rural society and with its transition and traditional isolation to integration with the national economy, it should be change to each component of rural life in a desired direction along with other components. The criteria for the rural development, therefore, needs improvement in productivity, employment, higher incomes, minimum expectable levels of food, clothing, shelter, health, education etc. after the independence, the country launched various anti poverty and employment oriented programs for rectifying the situation, National Government has decided restructure the self employment programs. In India the basic problem is of making a choice between labour- intensive and capital-intensive technique on account of these reason, it is contented that in selecting a technique, which would require their services, the social cost would be low. And so, in India labour intensive techniques are to be preferred to a capital-intensive technique. India’s population is still rapidly expanding. Living standards are rising and slated to rise faster than in the past. As they rise, both calorific intake and diversification of diet will increase significant. Both as a challenge and as an opportunity, India can and must do much more to modernize and diversify its agriculture to meet the increase domestic and international demand for a wide variety of the products. Thus globule market market situations are pushing the rural economy of India for new technology.

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