Sustainable Rural Development : With Special Reference to NGOs

Contents: Preface. 1. Role of NGOs in tribal development in India. 2. NGOs, democracy and sustainable development. 3. Plan of action for people\'s participation in rural development. 4. The role of civil society in achieving sustainable urbanization. 5. Community based environmental education for sustainable development. 6. Trends in voluntarism in rural development in India. 7. Role of NGOs in sustainable rural development. 8. Social development in 21st century. 9. NGOs, governance and development in the Arab world. 10. Role of NGOs in private enterprise development. 11. Role of international and local NGOs in the transformation. 12. Empowering the rural local bodies for faster and sustainable rural development in India. Bibliography. Index.

Sustainable Rural Development nearly three-fourths of country\'s population lives in villages. Rural areas have a much larger concentration of the people, living under condition of poverty, illiteracy and superstitions. A large population of the rural population remains unemployed during most of the year. The villagers don\'t remunerative prices for the wheat, pulses, vegetables, honey, coconut, cotton etc. which are being produced by them. The peasants and other poor families have to borrow money from the money-lenders at a high rate of interest.

But after independence there have been a deliberate efforts on part of the government to improve the rural conditions having improved the irrigation system, bringing green revolution, providing loan-facilities to the rural people, making the mode of production available to the people etc. (jacket)