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Authors
Affiliations
1 Secretary, West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, IN
2 Professor & Head, Community Development & Rural Technology, National Institute o f Technical Teachers Training & Research, Kolkata, IN
Source
Indian Science Cruiser, Vol 22, No 2 (2008), Pagination: 15-17
Abstract
India lives in her villages. More than 80% of the total population lives in rural areas. Most of these families earn their livelihood based on agricultural activities. However, this opportunity is available for hardly 6 months in a year and the rural youths, in particular, usually lead an idle life for the remaining part of the year. Futhermore, there is little employment opportunities in villages resulting in ever-increasing rural-urban migration, but the majority of the migrants being most unlikely to find work in towns. In order to improve upon the quality of the rural population and also to put a cheek on rural-urban migration, it is proposed to launch a programme to provide need-based train ing through distance mode to the rural youths, in particular, so that they could be self employed or wage employed in village itself on successful completion of their training.
