Rural Development in India / Vasant Desai.

1. Introduction
SECTION 1: RURAL INDIA

2. Socio economic structure of rural India;
3.Rural poverty;

SECTION 2: RURAL DEVELOPMENT

4. Meaning and content of rural development;
5. Rural development: An overview;
6. Early attempts of rural development;
7. National programmes of rural development;
8. Community development programme;
9. Employment guarantee scheme;
10. Issues in rural development;

SECTION 3: PRESENT RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

11. Wage employment programme;
12. Self-employment and entrepreneurship development;
13. Special area development programmes;
14. Rural housing programme;
15. National social assistance programe;
16. Rural water supply programme;
17. Rural sanitation;

SECTION 4: APPROACH TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT

18. Agriculture and rural development;
19. Imperatives for wise water management;
20. Energy management;
21. Modern agricultural technology;
22. Social forestry;
23. Rural industrialization;
24. Land reforms and rural development;

SECTION 5: FINANCING RURAL DEVELOPMENT

25. Credit needs of rural poor;
26. The national bank for agriculture and rural development;
27. Techniques of lending to agriculture;
28. Area and project approach to bank lending;
29. Decentralized credit planning;
30. District credit plan;
31. Block level planning;
32. 20-point programme and rural development;

SECTION 6: RURAL MANAGEMENT

33. Agencies for rural development;
34. Role of voluntary agencies;
35. Vikas voluntary vahini;
36. Council of advancement of people's action and rural technology;
37. Rural management;
38. Training for rural people;
39. Panchayats for rural development;

SECTION 7: FUTURE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

40. FUTURE OF rural development;
41. Rural development in 21st century;

SECTION 8: EXPERIMENT IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT

42. Case studies;