Rural-Urban Partnership For Inclusive Growth In India

It is rightly appropriate that the academicians, policy makers, professionals, NGOs and the concerned public take up a serious discussion of rural-urban partnership development and explore options in forging sustainable alliance between them. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to separate ‘rural and urban’ as opposed to each other and one sector snatching away what is due to others. It is the time to recognize these two as complementary to each other and strengthen the rural-urban partnership. This paper highlights the need of rural-urban partnership for inclusive growth in India.