disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized … states on the other. It would also channelize to the mainstream the forces of development in the rural and remote areas …

The note gives details of the implementation of Rural Digital Services Program in Karnataka …

organisation movements which have been resisting all that harms agriculture and the ‘rural’, the entry of such organisations which … actors has a stake in maintenance of its presence in the ‘rural’ because agriculture here has not been displaced by either … state’ image in the countryside, it is only the act of delivery of justice for the ‘rural’ that would be crucial in …

people especially those living in developing countries such as India. Especially the people living in rural areas have been … constantly encountering the locational disadvantage: being located in rural areas the access to basic amenities is denied or … inadequate. In this respect the President of India advocated that provision of urban amenities in rural areas is an essential …

The objective of the study was to develop and describe socioeconomic profiles of the rural community in the Hilkot …

The present paper is an attempt to examine the levels of deprivation of rural people in terms of their access to basic … amenities like, housing, drinking water, sanitation etc. And also it evaluates the degree of relative disadvantage of rural … locational disadvantage of the rural people. The paper follows the framework of Sen’s Capability Approach to development. …

The rural labour market in India is still virtually, to a large extent, dominated by the agriculture related workers …, both cultivators and hired workers consisting of more than 70 percent of the rural workforce even in the current decade …

The objective of this paper is to present the district levels analysis of rural infrastructure base with respect to …

Poverty has increased during the 90s overall as well as in rural and urban areas, after experiencing downward trends … during the 80s. Besides, the gap between rural and urban poverty has also widened. The recent estimates show that more than … one-third of our population lives in extreme poverty, and around 70% of these unfortunate people reside in rural areas …