The Changing Face of Rural India

Mahatma Gandhi observed that India lives in Rural Areas. If you want to improve the whole part of India your attention must simply goes to Rural oriented plans. This Book made an attempt to analyse the real position of rural India in nowadays and also through lights the detailed structure of the rural Society and hence also focuses the rural-urban divide, various Policies and programmes of rural development like Health care, programmes, self-employment programmes, practices and methods of rural Marketing and rural energy and other related rural energy issue and so on. Of late India has witnessed rapid changes in the countryside and rural areas. With the onset of IT revolution, the Mobile penetration, cable TV penetration etc. has helped to bring greater changes in hitherto idyllic unspoilt countryside. Forces of marketing and consumerism are also operating and one can find all kinds of goods and services available in small mofussil towns as well. This book explores the changing Face of rural India. It is hoped that this book will fulfill a lacunae in the field of rural studies and will help students, researchers, academicians, NGOs and policy makers as well.