Rural India: Vision and Action (In 25 Volumes)

This encyclopaedic work gives a comprehensive and extensive glimpse into the issues and problems pertaining to rural India. The purpose being the conceptualization and publication of such a series is to acquaint readers and researchers with what entails issues of development and progress for India’s villages, an understanding of these issues, and what measures need to be undertaken when it comes to their alleviation/mitigation/encouragement, as the case may be. The series comprise 25 books within its folds, all of which focus on issues as varied as industries, communication, education, poverty, health, society and culture, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure, local governance, basic amenities, etc., all of which pertain specifically to rural India. The emphasis is on fostering a deep comprehension of all the issues, relying on such methods as statistics, graphs, or mere simple critical analysis. In addition, the books feature within their pages the programmes and schemes that have been carried out with reference to the particular topics, with an assessment of their success/failure, along with suggestions to improve upon them.