Rural development programmes in India: An overview in the context of women economic empowerment Yadav Sandhya JRF, Deptt. of Social Work, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Email: sandhya9592@gmail.com Online published on 27 June, 2017. Abstract The policy makers in most of the developing economies recognize this importance and have been implementing a host of programs and measures to achieve rural development objectives. While some of these countries have achieved impressive results, others have failed to make a significant dent in the problem of persistent rural underdevelopment. Before independence the picture of India could have been seen in the wrinkled faces, flushed cheeks, concavo bellies, folded hands in praying posture and wet eyes of its rural mass residing in the wide spread rural sector and constituting more than 70% of India's total population. The real India resided in their privation, poverty, starvation, helplessness, wretchedness and mass unemployment. Some sentimental citizens, having realized this situation of their nation, stepped on the way of freedom movement since the foreign rule was taken as the sole causal factor of that pitiable state of India. The movement went on advancing and masses went on being involved in it. Ultimately in 1947 India became independent whereby we became free to decide our future. We started our planned economic development since 1951 having in our hands the experience, a wide literature of well proved strategies and variegated plans pertaining to, used by and created or formulated by the well developed western economies, apart from our available natural resources. We were over enthusiastic and over ambitious on account of having the ready and well proved weapons sought from the western world for combating the problem of development. This paper throw a light that how rural development programmes are promoting womens’ economic development in India. Top Keywords Rural development, Government, women, planned economy, Independence. Top |