(NOW
CHANGED AS RURAL DEVELOPMENT)
Unit I
Development: Meaning - Basic elements and objectives
Rural Development: meaning, objectives, scope and importance
of rural development. Approaches Gandhian approach;
Community Development Approach; Sectoral Approach; Target
Approach; Area approach; Minimum Need Approach; Integrated
approach; Participatory Development approach.
Unit
II
History of rural development in India – Experiments
in rural development: rural development during pre-independence
period - Sriniketan experiment –Gurgaon experiment
–Marthandam experiment-Baroda experiment –
Firkha development scheme – Etawa pilot project
– Nilokheri experiment – Gandhian Constructive
Programmes.
Unit
III
Community Development Programme (CDP) – objectives,
principles, coverage, activities, organization, methods
and techniques of CDP- Evaluation of CDP. -Development
programmes and Panchayati Raj.
Unit
IV
Agriculture and Rural development – share of agriculture
in the national income – agriculture as a source
of livelihood and employment – agriculture as
a source of raw materials, capital for development,
manpower, Agriculture Development Programmes: objective,
target group, strategies and evaluation of Intensive
Agriculture Development Programme. (IADP), Intensive
Agriculture Area Programme (IAAP) and High Yield Variety
Programme (Green revolution).
Unit
V
Area specific Rural Development Programmes: Regional
disparities – meaning,causes and consequences.
Meaning and need for regional planning - objectives,
activities, target groups and evaluation of Drought
Prone Area Programme, Hill Area Development Programme,
Tribal Area Development Programme, Command Area Development
Programme, Integrated Wasteland Development Programme.
Unit
VI
Alleviation of rural poverty: Meaning, concept, measurement
of poverty, causes and consequences. Poverty eradication
programmes: objectives, activities and target group,
evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme,
Swarna Jayanthi Grama Swarajgar Yojana, Employment Assurance
Scheme.
Unit
VII
Social Welfare schemes for rural uplift: Concept of
social welfare, Objectives, scope, activities, performance
of Antyodaya programme- Annapoorana scheme – Intensive
Child Development Scheme (ICDS), schemes for rural housing,
water supply and sanitation.
Unit
VIII
Cooperatives and rural development – meaning and
principles of cooperation. Objectives, functions, structure
and performance of rural credit and non-credit cooperatives.
Unit
IX
Community Organisation: Concept - meaning - basic assumptions
– principles of community organizations. Self
Help Group(SHG) as a community organization –
structure and functions of SHG – performance of
SHG in Tamil Nadu.
Unit
X
Administration of rural development in India –
administrative structure for rural development in Tamil
Nadu – District Rural Development Agency(DRDA):
Structure and functions; Panchayat Raj Institutions
(PRI): Structure and functions; Non Governmental Organisation
(NGO): Meaning and functions.
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