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In India, Panchayati Raj institutions have been playing an important role for rural development in general and especially upliftment of down-trodden people in rural areas. Panchayat Raj system establishes a linkage between local leadership enjoying confidence of local people and the government, and translate the policies of the government into action.In this study, an attempt was made to examine the specific role being played by the Panchayat Raj institutions for ...
Poverty is both widespread and intensive and intrinsically related to socio-cultural, socio-political and socio-economic factors which indicate the contemporary ideologies and policies followed by a society. After Independence, India adopted a model of planned economic development to eliminate the poverty of its masses. This has shown some important as far as general economic activities and raising of per capita income are concerned. But facts remain that the ...
Human resources play a pivotal role for determining the level of socio-economic development in all economies of the world. Low level of human resource development may be attributed to number of factors such as high growth rate of population, poverty, inequality, illiteracy, mortality and morbidity, low level of income, low level of consumption, low savings and investments and high burden of debts etc. This is a fact that these factors mainly prevail in developing ...
India by and large has been a political and socially static society. The process of political mobilization was introduced by adopting universal adult franchise, competitive party politics, periodic elections and parliamentary system. A natural consequence followed that there has been tremendous pressure of political mobilization and politicization. The cultural pattern of Indian Society is such that social progress among women can be promoted effectively through ...