Rural Development
CBSE · Class 11 · Economics
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Understanding Rural Development
- Rural development focuses on areas lagging behind in village economy development
- More than two-thirds of India's population depends on agriculture
- One-fourth of rural India still lives in abject poverty
Key Areas of Rural Development
- Human resource development: literacy (especially female literacy), education, skill development, health, sanitation
- Land reforms for equitable distribution
- Development of productive resources of each locality
Rural Credit System
- Rural economy depends on capital infusion for higher productivity
- Long gestation period between crop sowing and income realization requires credit
- Pre-independence: moneylenders exploited farmers with high interest rates
Rural Banking - Critical Analysis
- Positive effects: increased rural output, income, employment post-Green Revolution
- Helped achieve food security and abundant buffer stocks
- Problems: high loan default rates, poor deposit mobilization culture
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- NCERT Official — ncert.nic.in
- CBSE Academic — cbseacademic.nic.in
- CBSE Official — cbse.gov.in
- National Education Policy 2020 — education.gov.in
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