Rural Development:Concept and Recent Approaches

Rural Development has always been a significant concern in all debates pertaining to sustainable development, especially of developing countries, throughout the world. India, as a developing country is not an exception. Rural development has great importance for a country like India, where majority of the population, around 68.64 per cent (as per 2011 Census) of the people live in rural areas. The process of development has been considered as a guaranteed mechanism of progressive transformation. The term rural development includes a wide range of development initiatives that focus at developing rural areas through creation of all types of assets to ameliorate the condition of the rural people.