Management of Rural Development

Contents: Preface. 1. Rural management and development. 2. ICT and e-Governance for rural development. 3. National policy development on joint forest management. 4. Banking policy in rural India. 5. Trends in rural employment. 6. Sustainable forest management in India. 7. Panchayati Raj and planning in India: participatory institutions and rural roads. 8. The role of the community sector in waste and environmental management. 9. Wastewater use in irrigated agriculture: management challenges in developing countries. 10. The complexities of community participation in rural information systems projects. 11. A conceptual framework of governance, development and democracy. Bibliography. Index.

“The developing and under developed nations traveled a long distance on the road of economic development and have made significant progress in various sectors. However, the development in rural areas has not kept pace with overall progress in other facets of national life. Even today a large percentage of the rural poor subsist in poverty and there remains acute shortage of basic facilities such as housing, drinking water and roads in rural areas. The sustainable development of rural areas is essential for the nations to realize their potential and unless the processes of all round growth, based on the latest genius of the rural masses. The book examines the various issues, challenges and opportunities lies with in the periphery of rural management.