61 years passed after the independence in India do you think that Indian rural development is sufficient ? because about 70 percent of people in India live in rural areas.Development is happening in India but in which way rural development or urbanization.Now according to some report.
The rural villages in United States of America look far better than Indian cities but those are still the part of U.S. rural sector because the economy of those villages is still land and agriculture based. This course of strengthening a rural economy is “Rural Development’. If the urban way of living is made available to the rural mass without raising their income through land and agriculture, their consumption, traditions and living become urban. This is urbanization and not rural development. Urbanization is enjoyed by rural people till it is free of cost for them. As soon as it starts costing to them, either they revert to their pre-urbanization living standard or, if they have become habitual, they indulge in illegal activities to earn more income to maintain the enjoyed living standard. That is why the urban youths in India are day by day advancing towards crime. Therefore, urbanization can pay nothing positive to rural mass in real sense. Nor, urbanization means rural development.
So what do you think in few area like
i) Literacy and Education
(ii) Construction of Link-Roads
(iii) Self-Employment Generation
(iv) Health Awareness
(v) Giving awareness of opportunities availability for them
(vi) Family Planning
(vii) Land Reforms
(viii) Extension of rural or agricultural credit
(ix) Extension of canal irrigation
(x) Rural Electrification
This few things has developed enough in our country.without their development India can not become a develop country.After all 70% Indian lives there