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Rural Development In India

INTRODUCTION

Rural development has always been an important issue in all discussions pertaining to economic development, especially of developing countries, throughout the world. In the developing countries and some formerly communist societies, rural mass comprise a substantial majority of the population. Over 3.5 billion people live in the Asia and Pacific region and some 63% of them in rural areas. Although millions of rural people have escaped poverty as a result of rural development in many Asian countries, a large majority of rural people continue to suffer from persistent poverty. The socio-economic disparities between rural and urban areas are widening and creating tremendous pressure on the social and economic fabric of many developing Asian economies. These factors, among many others, tend to highlight the importance of rural development. The policy makers in most developing economies recognize this importance and have been implementing a host of programs and measures to achieve rural development objectives. While some of these countries have achieved impressive results, others have failed to make a significant dent in the problem of persistent rural underdevelopment.

LITERATURE ON INDIAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Therefore, any development plan bringing not the betterment or uplift of rural sector in the developing countries would lose its significance. On account of this fact, an attempt went on being made throughout the world to generate the literature on rural development. Thereby, the literature on rural development has become so wide that to decide from where the deliberation should be started, is a difficult task. As regards to the literature pertaining to Indian rural development, we can see three separately different themes therein.

(1) The literature coming under the first theme is the literature comprised of the conceptual part and importance of rural development in the national economic development. The greatest part of this literature was generated by European economists or the Indian economists educated in Europe.

(2) The literature under the second theme presents a detail of programmes and projects related to the main issues pertaining to rural development which are:

(i) Literacy and Education: - The simple literacy (basic reading, writing and numeracy) and the functional literacy had been presented as panaceas in the 1950s and the 1970s, respectively, with a view that if everybody learned how to read and write or learned this would enhance development. The literacy, also including functional computer literacy, is still being presented as panacea by the governments of developing countries, UNESCO, World Bank, IMF and numerous aid organizations, with a view that this will solve development problems. On the other hand, education plays an important role in the progress of an individual’s mind and country. Ignorance and poverty, the two major speed-breakers in the swift developing country, can be overcome easily through education. (ii) Construction of Link-Roads: - Though unknown, a potentially important share of the benefits to the poor from rural roads cannot be measured in monetary terms. This is extremely important if the benefits of development have to move beyond the limited confines of cities to the vast hinterland so that the millions of toiling farmers can also become partners in progress. Urban-rural road links play a vital role for carrying urban prosperity into the heartland of a developing economy. (iii) Self-Employment Generation: - Employment generation, especially the self employment generation in rural sector attach great importance to poverty alleviation and mitigation specifically of the wide variations across States and the rural-urban division. A set of prudentially selected programmes of self employment in rural sector plays as the panacea to remove multi-dimensional nature of poverty through helping a lot the anti-poverty strategy’s three broad components - promotion of economic growth, promotion of human development and targeted programmes of poverty alleviation. (iv) Health Awareness: - The goal of health awareness programme of rural development is to create awareness, a stirring of both heart and mind, about health care conditions, challenges, and solutions among the rural people. (v) Giving awareness of opportunities availability for them:- Awareness of opportunities availability in rural sector means to provide relevant and usable information to the rural youth regarding (both the skilled and the unskilled) labour markets and access to relevant training to help them make decisions about the labour market options available to them. (vi) Family Planning: - Population growth is though a global problem but in heavily populated developing countries the problem is rather acute. An effective family planning programme is necessary there so as to curb high population growth that erodes the increase in employment opportunities and per capita income begot on account of the therein launched development programmes. (vii) Land Reforms: - Land reform means deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its cultivation, or the relation of agriculture to the rest of the economy. The most common objective of land reform is to abolish feudal or colonial forms of landownership, often by taking land away from large landowners and redistributing it to landless peasants. (viii) Extension of rural or agricultural credit: - An Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) needs to identify the poor, give them credit and subsidy to purchase a productive asset to raise their earnings, recover loans, and recycle loans progressively to help poor villagers. There is a need to popularise banking facilities and make villagers account-holders. New type of accounts to suit their requirements should be considered. Moreover, the main problem in rural credit is not mere credit but the way in which it is spent. Therefore, the agencies providing rural credit should aim to promote sustainable and equitable prosperity of the villagers through effective credit support, related services, institution development and other innovative initiatives. (ix) Extension of canal irrigation: - Irrigation is an essential component of progressive agriculture. In fact, development of irrigation has become synonymous with agricultural development and rural prosperity. Canal irrigation system is much more challenging than the groundwater irrigation systems. It is the dominant water transfer technique in developing countries and is performing well in many parts of the world. (x) Rural Electrification: - Rural electrification means to facilitate availability of electricity for accelerated growth and for enrichment of quality of life of rural population. It is argued that rural electrification is essential in the longer term perspective of rural development since electricity is considered as a prerequisite for economic development and improvement of overall standard of living of the rural inhabitants. Electricity is also considered as a potent force capable of elevating and providing the much needed dynamism into the rural economy.

 In this literature some programmes and projects pertaining to the national economic development (such as extension of mobile telephone service, extension of highway network, heavy industrialization etc.) also have been referred to as rural development programmes.

(3) The literature under the third theme is most critical. This literature comprises of the deliberations of the writers perhaps over enthusiastic to get them-selves enlisted in the line of economists. They have written to prove even some phenomena like the rural-urban migration and the emergence of small and rare urban patches in the form of campus of one or more heavy industries, to be the signs of rural development. I think, rural-urban migration gains impetus when there becomes acute shortage of employment opportunities in rural sector. Similarly, the above mentioned urban patches too have relation not with the process of rural development but with the rural-urban transformation. Some writers put one more step further by using the terms rural development and urbanization as synonymous. I don’t understand why they differentiate not between the rural and the urban economies. The basic difference between the rural and the urban economies is that of their dependence and not of the amenities or facilities of life available for the people living there. A rural economy substantially depends on land and agriculture. On the other hand, an urban economy substantially depends on any one or a combination of industry, trade and commerce. If we want to develop a rural economy we should develop land and agriculture. The land and agriculture development would increase income of the rural people whereby they would tend to raise their living standard by letting urban amenities, facilities and traditions enter in their life. Whatever the high level of living standard is achieved there on the basis of increased income generated on account of land and agriculture development, the economy remains rural, all the same. It becomes developed but is not converted into an urban economy. 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. Each of the rural development, the rural extension, the urbanization, the urban development, the urban extension and the rural urban transformation has its separate meaning.

 

Therefore, this third theme of the rural development literature is totally unacceptable. But, all the same, this theme seems to have crept into and exerted its pressing effect in India’s development plan formulation. This becomes amply clear if we reflect on net result of India’s long journey, worth more than 55 yrs, on the path of planned economic development.

PREINDEPENDENCE RURAL INDIA         

 Before independence the picture of India could have been seen in the wrinkled faces, flushed cheeks, concavo bellies, folded hands in praying posture and wet eyes of its rural mass residing in the wide spread rural sector and constituting more than 70 % of India’s total population. The real India resided in their privation, poverty, starvation, helplessness, wretchedness and mass unemployment. Some sentimental citizens, having realized this situation of their nation, stepped on the way of freedom movement since the foreign rule was taken as the sole causal factor of that pitiable state of India. The movement went on advancing and masses went on being involved in it. Ultimately in 1947 India became independent whereby we became free to decide our future.

PERFORMANCE OF INDIA”S PLANNED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

We started our planned economic development since 1951 having in our hands the experience, a wide literature of well proved strategies and variegated plans pertaining to, used by and created or formulated by the well developed western economies, apart from our available natural resources. We were over enthusiastic and over ambitious on account of having the ready and well proved weapons sought from the western world for combating the problem of development. Therefore, instead of starting from the very beginning and covering the whole path we, being enticed and allured by the surprisingly fascinating fruits of industrialization, started our efforts but having longed for being developed and grabbing fruits thereof in a haste. Thus we lost sequences in our development path. We ignored agriculture that was the spine of our economy. Thereby our agricultural development lagged far behind the level required for feeding our industrialization up to the mark. Agriculture based small and cottage industries became shattered and the villages became ruined. This raised a huge bulk of unemployed people in the widely spread rural sector. The unemployed persons started migrating to the urban areas in search of job. The urban development and industrialization there had not sufficient level to absorb the whole migrating mass and to provide them proper urban life facilities. As a result thereof a mushroom growth of slums came about fast which eventually turned into big slum spots in cities and towns within a no longer period of 20 or 25 years. This hampered urban growth and urban life. On the other hand, in rural areas there emerged acute shortage of energetic workforce, service centres, infrastructure, intellectuals etc. This hampered the rural development whereby agricultural development and rural life remained slang lower. That is why, even having travelled a long path of planned economic development, the state of affairs of rural India still remains almost the same as it was before planning. There is a big gulf between urban and rural people regarding wealth, wage, education and income. Moreover, the rural-urban migration, due to the pitiable state of affairs in rural areas, resulted to unchecked urban growth. Thus, instead of overall development, an unbalanced and unfair development of our economy became resulted therein. Consequently a wide spread general unemployment prevailed in both the rural and the urban areas (as per ECONOMIC APPRAISAL 2006-07, the estimated number of unemployed persons rose from 7.98 million in 1983 to 9.02 million in 1993-94, to 10.51 million in 1999-2000 and to 13.10 million in 2004-05. In addition to this a considerable number of politically, socially and economically sound and effective elites emerged in cities and urban towns. These elites interfered in the formulation and execution of development plans, on one hand, and in the fixation of priorities, on the other. Thereby our development plans became urban oriented and concentrating on rich minority. Thus the poor majority and the rural economy became ignored. The unemployment situation in both the rural and the urban sectors became almost uncontrollable. The government became politically weak. Therefore its priority became to please the rich minority so that it may run. To mitigate unemployment and poverty among the general mass it has to play pseudo role to remedy some times the rural and some times the urban mass alternately through various unsuccessful employment programmes and plans. Due to the general unemployment the condition of rural mass became more embarrassing than that of urban mass since the rural people had already been subsisting in privation. The fruits of the development programmes in rural sector were grabbed by the social elites in villages. Therefore, the general rural mass, instead of observing their economic uplift, rather found them-selves lagging behind in the run of economic development. The village industries had to be liquidated; rural artisans or handicraftsmen either became unemployed or had to migrate to urban cities or towns; the socio-cultural, cheap and some times free entertainment sources (like village dramas, swangs, street magicians, community chorus, community games, rural fairs, community festivals etc.) were snatched by costly media based means. Modern road and rail transport replaced the traditional transport. Rural weekly markets and village shopkeepers came to their end in the want of adequate demand. This resulted to a rapid increase in the cost of living of the rural people but their income remained far behind.

CAUSES OF THE REGRESSIVE EFFECTS ON THE RURAL LIFE

There have been three causes of this stinging situation. The first was our galloping along the development path instead of travelling along the true locus by creeping walking and running as and when needed. The second cause refers to the distortion in the concept of rural development which made the formulation of development plans and strategies incompatible to rural economy. The third cause was the rapid population growth which added a lot to make the unemployment situation a mammoth. The first cause relates to our over enthusiasm and the second cause relates to the hereinabove discussed third theme of rural development literature. The third cause relates to the increasing difference of birth rate over death rate and the insignificant performance of ‘Family Planning Programme’. On account of extended medical facilities, uplift of living standard due to increased national income, control over epidemics, check on famines, alleviation of starvation, extension of maternity services etc. during the development process in the plan period, the death rate considerably went down (from 27.4 per thousand per year during 1941-50 to 7.6 per thousand per year in 2005) but the birth rate remained slang high (it was 39.9 per thousand per year during 1941-50 and came down only to 23.8 per thousand per year in 2005). Therefore population growth attained an increasingly high rate that was however tried unsuccessfully to be lowered through the ‘Family Planning Programme’.

FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHILD BIRTH

If we go in full detail of why a child is born, we will come across the various factors making a child take birth. The factors making a child take birth can be grouped under four heads namely (i)Biological Factor, (ii)Socio-cultural Factors, (iii)Religious Factors and (iv)Economic Factors.

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR

The biological factor refers to the child bearing as a byproduct of sexual gratification. This is one of the most effective factors determining birth rate of the population. A person in the state of aggravated sexual agitation can forgo all social, cultural, religious (spiritual) and economic gains for sexual gratification.

SOCIO-CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS FACTORS

The socio-cultural and the religious factors refer to the social customs, cultural traditions and religious faiths which play dominant role in the life of people especially in poor and backward communities. The social factors induce a person to have more sons as the sons are believed to be the reliable means of social security and social status for a family. Moreover, they are deemed to care their old, physically wasted and worn-out parents, on one hand, and to provide safety to the family in case of conflicts and death of supportive member/s of the family.  The religious factors refer mainly to four beliefs. One states that peace is rendered to the soul after death only if the cremation is performed by a real son. The second speaks of higher spiritual gain or place in Elysium of heaven after death for a person having more sons. The third relates the production of more children to religious service and the fourth specifies child bearing as the pious duty of a woman because she is believed to be sent by God only for increasing progeny.

ECONOMIC FACTORS

Apart from the socio-cultural and the religious factors, the economic factors are very much effective like the biological factor. A person in acute economic privation leaves even deeply instilled socio-cultural, religious and some times biological allurements too for economic gains. The need of economic support in old age and the poverty are two main economic factors making people tend to produce more children. In old age, when a person becomes generally sick, pulled, worn-out, and non-earning, he becomes dependant to his heirs for food, clothing, medical treatment and other expenses. More the sons or heirs he has, lesser will be the share of burden of supporting him. As regards to poverty, it generates three causes of inducement to the high rate of child-birth.

(a) The prevailing media based fascinating means of entertainment are not only out of the reach of poor man but these have also snatches the old socio-cultural, cheap and some times free entertainment sources from him. Therefore a poverty stricken person has to search the way of entertainment in sex and that too being circumstantially unprotected whereby childbirth goes on taking place one after one successively.

(b) In poor families a child becomes earning hand at the age of seven or eight yrs. On account of the subsistence level of family’s living, the expenditure on child’s feeding is considerably lower than the wage he earns. Therefore, the surplus of his earning over his consumption adds to family income and thus contributes to the uplift of family’s standard of living. The sentiments and feelings regarding education or future welfare of the child droop before the agony of unsatisfied basic needs due to privation. Therefore, a child in a poor family is proved an asset rather than liability, in its stead.

(c) There are some types of family occupations where a number of faithful workmen are required. The required manpower from own family is most desirable there. If a person is owner of a series of units of small scale industries, cottage industries, small business units etc. the hired managing persons generally prove costlier, unfaithful and non-devoted. If a family member is deployed at each such unit the safety and profitability is increased. Similar is the position in a single cottage industry unit where margin of profit is low and hired labour makes the profit uncertain. If family manpower instead of hired one is used the profitability there becomes increased on account of devotedness, faithfulness and per need flexibility in working hours of the working force. Moreover, wage rate of a family labour is generally lower than that of a hired labour because the cost of living of one member of the family is lower than that of the whole family of hired man. Therefore the requirement of man power is tried to meet out by producing more children in the family.

PERFORMANCE OF FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMME

As regards to the check on high population growth the prevailing ‘Family Planning Programme’ has been proved insufficient and incomplete. Census figures reveal that the ‘Family Planning Programme’ in India has fallen short of the goals with which it was implemented. India\'s family planning program was initiated in 1952 to curb population growth and in due course was given highest priority along with other developmental programs. All the same, India’s population that was below half billion in 1960 crossed the figure of one billion in 2000. It is well proved that the programme failed to instill among the general mass the spirit of ‘children by choice and not by chance’. Introduction of target free approach in 1996-97, reduced thrust on family planning, poor access to family planning services and inadequate attention on need based methods of sterilization have been the causal factors of the inadequacy and insufficiency of family planning programme in controlling population growth especially in rural areas where it should have been proved but successful.

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

The whole length of the above discussion makes amply clear that incompatibility of the development process and inadequacy of family planning programme are the two factors responsible for slackness in rural development in India. Therefore, to accelerate rural development the   development process should be made compatible by rectifying the conceptual mistake in the development move and the high population growth should be checked by making the family planning programme strong and effective. As far as the question of rectification of mistake in development move is concerned, the time of making the mistake good by starting afresh has gone far back. Therefore, we should better take a drastic turn to re-fix our priorities, reformulate our strategies, re-select our programmes and reconstruct our plans so as to make our development move rural oriented, congenial to micro-level needs of the people, akin to the over all development and compatible to the extenuation of economic disparities. This will bring about fast agricultural development, uplift of village life and revival of village industries, artistry and handicraft to check the rural-urban migration. On the other hand, the ‘Family Planning Programme’ should be made strong and effective by reformulating it in a way that all the factors making a child take birth are extenuated as suggested below.

(1)To check unintended child-birth on account of purely the biological factor the contraceptives should be made so affluently available that in every case of coitus for mere gratification the use of a suitable contraceptive is made sure.

(2)The socio-cultural and the religious factors should be weakened by old age house facility, old age pension, dependent minors allowance scheme, unemployment allowance, community insurance, extension of education, literacy and poverty alleviation programmes etc.

(3)The population growth on account of economic factors should be checked by so designing the media based means of entertainment that these become under the easy reach of poor people, making the family occupations joint ventures, launching subsidy schemes and market protection schemes for rural cottage or small scale industries and accelerating agricultural development.

It is finally concluded that for achieving rural development the development plans and the family planning programme both should be reformed on the hereinabove suggested lines so that extra employment opportunities may be generated fast and population growth may be checked in a way that growth of employment opportunities considerably exceeds the population growth in rural sector.

 

 

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