RURAL DEVELOPMENT: PRINCIPLES, POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT BOOK REVIEW

Book review for this book is divided in to two parts in first I shall discuss about basic
information about book and in second part I shall discuss about content and usefulness of the
of the book.

PART 1 (BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT BOOK)

BOOK DETAILS

RURAL DEVELOPMENT: PRINCIPLES, POLICIES AND

TITLE :
MANAGEMENT
PUBLISHER : SAGE PUBLICATIONS (CA)
AUTHOR: KATAR SINGH
EDITION: PAPERBACK
EDITION NUMBER: 3RD
PUBLISHED YEAR : 2009
BINDING : PAPERBACK
DELIVERABLE THIS PRODUCT FOR SALE ONLY IN SOUTH ASIA
COUNTRIES:
NUMBER OF PAGES : 348
ISBN : 978-81-7829-926-6( PB)
PRICE : RS. 395.

This book have thick papered, plastic coated title as well as last page, on the front page(title
page) around half of the page is in orange color on which book title is printed with black color
and author name is printed with white color. On the second half of the front page one black and
white picture of some farmers in farm with harvesting machine is given which can be a symbol
of rural area. This book was written in to the found memory of authors’ parents. In this book
author has taken help of various facts, tables, figures, equations to make us understand the

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concepts and topics. Author has divided book in to 15 chapters to explain the title of the book.
One very interesting thing about this book is author has kept preface to the each edition of the
book so reader can get idea about how it has been updated with time passes. Table of content is
given in simple way like chapter number and title than topics covered in each chapter with
respective page numbers. I want to bring notice that also each chapter starts with learning
outcomes of the chapter and ends with main points of the chapter and at the last question for
discussion is given so reader can asses thyself after reading each chapter. Further, more book
contains references and bibliography, index and information of author in the end of the book in
around 17 to 18 pages.

PART II (CONTENT AND USEFULNESS OF THE OF THE BOOK)

Rural development: Principles, Policies and Management comprehensively addresses the basic
concepts, elements, paradigms, determinants, policy instruments, strategies, programs, and
management of rural development. This book emphasizes, in particular, the essential role of
human resources as both a means and an end of development. Thus, this book, Rural
Development: Principles, Policies and Management, is seems as a comprehensive textbook on
Rural Development and Planning. From the content of this book I must say that this book is
primarily targeted at graduate and post-graduate students of Rural Development, Agricultural
Policy and Planning and Rural Management. In this book also takes into account training
programmes in Rural Development, Rural Economics, Rural Management, Agricultural Policy
and Planning. All aspect related with rural development has been covered in this book very
nicely.

By reviewing the content of the book, I can clearly see that in the beginning chapter author has
introduced some basic concept of the rural development, rural economy, measures of
development and then he talked about policies, program of rural development; so reader can
get clear stimulate regarding policies. Author has given supportive table or facts to justify most
of the topics. This will be useful for us to understand well.
This book deals extensively with the subject of rural development under three main categories,
Which are covered within 15 chapters.

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1) The first category examines the concept and determinants of rural development. i.e. if
we go through the first six chapters as a reader I come to know basic about rural
development, why rural development, growth versus development, rural economy of
India-its size structure, role of agriculture, non agriculture subsector, challenges and
opportunities of rural economy, some measures of development, some paradigm of
rural development, determinants of rural development – natural resources, human
resources, capital, technology, ect.
2) The second category from chapter 7 to 12 examines the agricultural and rural
development policies, need for rural development policies, goals of the rural
development policies, globalization and rural development, strategies for sustainable
development, policy instruments, as well as equity-oriented and growth-oriented
programmes, unemployment and poverty, policy models and the various programmes
initiated in India, natural resources and infrastructure development programmes,
planning for rural development.
3) In the third category from chapter 13 to 15, aspects of organization like government
organization, Panchayati Raj Institutions, cooperatives, voluntary agencies or non
government organizations, corporations and its management in rural development are
examined in detail, with special emphasis on planning, financing, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation.

Usefulness: This book is so well prepared so that students of competitive examinations

conducted by the Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commissions
and the admission tests conducted by academic institutes offering post-graduate programmes in
Rural Management and Agri-business Management, will also find this book useful. The book
will also be of much interest to governmental and non-governmental organisations including
donors and other funding agencies engaged in rural development. I think the book is well
documented and would be of great use as a book for students as well as for policy-makers
associated with rural planning and development. This book is also useful for some NGOs also
will get idea regarding rural environment its various aspects through which they can well set
their policies.= =