The purpose of this paper is to examine the background and the salient features of the scheme for establishing the RRBs and to evaluate their performance in the short period of their existence. The paper also presents the ...

This paper demonstrates that Institutional finance must play a multi-functional role to fulfil its three-fold objectives of promoting (a) growth, (b) better equity, and (c) its own viability/profitability for agricultural ...

Training of rural development managers has attracted considerable attentionin the recent pest in light of the drive in the Central Government for upgrading the professional skills of development managers. However, the ...

There is a growing demand on the educational institutions to contribute to the development process, particularly in the rural areas. The academicians have responded to this demand in a favorable manner. In the IIMA a faculty ...

This paper is for presention to GO-ESCAP Round Table on "Adaptation of Administration to India's Rural Development" scheduled for 16-18 August 1978 at Delhi. The paper points out that there are inherent contradictions ...

The paper examines the past experiments in RD in India, thinking from 1952 onwards, the three models available to India during the First Plan, the Community Development (CD) design, and administrative and economic strategies ...

The study of the rural development programmes in our country and abroad would suggest that these programmes have certain discernable attributes, some of these are reflected in their basic approach to economic development ...

It is necessary to involve practitioners of different disciplines in the tasks of rural development. However, this can become possible only if the objectives of such collaborations are well-defined. In the notes submitted ...

The participation of commercial banks in rural credit was started with the nationalization of imperial bank of India into State Bank of India in 1955. Initially it was to assist cooperative sector in term lending. Subsequently ...

The individual urge to extend one's responsibility for social change beyond mandated or formal duties is far more pervasive than is generally assumed. However, not each individual with such an urge takes voluntary initiatives. ...