Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Kalyan Sankar Mandal

Abstract

A review of the rural development of independent India suggests that it has gone through some phases. In the 1950s the basic infrastructure for rural development has been created. In the 1960s, the main concern of rural development was to achieve rapid growth through intensive cultivation. In the 1970s and 1980s, there has been an emphasis to achieve growth-with-equity in the rural sector. Thus, the rural developmental attempts in independent India can be viewed in terms of infrastructure building, growth and equity phases.

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Kalyan Sankar Mandal

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Anti-poverty programmers were initiated in India in 1970s, as the growth-oriented strategy of the 1960s failed to benefit the poorer sections of the society. Although now the anti-poverty programmers have been in operation for nearly two decades (1970s and 1980s), they have failed to benefit the poorest section of the society (Bandopadhyay, 1986: 25-33), for whom these programs are primarily meant.

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