“Dynamics of Rural Development”

by

At
Symposium on Uncommon Opportunities
Teen Murti Bhavan
New Delhi

20 November 2004

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 Rural prosperity through Connectivity

• We are one billion+ people

• 600,000 villages with
700 millions people
• 260 million are below poverty line
• How to uplift?
• Habitat
• Infrastructure
• Healthcare Integrated,
Palk Strait

• Simultaneous,
Education
Connected
• Employment : Agriculture, Actions
Manufacturing, Services
• Market connectivity
• Quality of Life

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 GREEN REVOLUTION - II
FIRST SECOND
SOIL CHARACTERISATION
SEED
MATCHING THE SEED
FERTILISER MANAGEMENT
FERTILISERS
(Organic Farming)
WATER WATER MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
Drip irrigation: Halving water
Consumption
TRAINING FARMERS
IRS-1 TRAINING
CULTIVATION CULTIVATION
MANAGEMENT
POST HARVESTING (SILOS)
HARVEST &
POST HARVEST OUTPUT = 400 MT GRAINS

OUTPUT = GRAIN FOOD PROCESSING

( Value Addition )
(200 MILLION TONNES)
RP-5 Bihar MARKETING

1960-70 2004-2020
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 Priorities of the Nation

• Agriculture
– Rural cooperative credit system
– Dry land farming in the arid and semi arid regions
– Watershed and waste land development

• Education and Health

– Cooked nutritious mid-day meal scheme to the Primary and secondary schools
– primary education, health and nutrition

• Infrastructure
– Housing for the weaker section in rural areas
– Drinking water, sanitation

• Water resources
– Linking of the rivers in the country starting with the southbound rivers

• Employment
– Micro-finance, Self-Help Groups

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Connectivity – a path for National Development
Every year in India
Rs. 20,000 crores ( ~US$ 4 bn)

Education Health
Health
Road Housing
Housing

Different Ministries and Departments working for Rural development

How
WithtotoProper
How realize the
thedream
dreamofof
realizeconnectivity Employment
Employment
Water
Water &
& Energy
Energy Ag/M/S
Prosperous
Rural Prosperity
Prosperous India ??
is assured
India
Ag/M/S

Rural
Rural
Electricity
finance
finance
Market
Market Self-help
Self-help

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