The significance of Rural Development in India are as follows:
- Public Health and Sanitation: Rural development helps to improve sanitation and hygiene. It improves the quality of life.
- Literacy Rate: Rural development helps to increase the literacy rate. It helps to make provisions for educational facilities.
- Empowerment of Women: Rural development helps to reduce gender disparity. It also encourages women’s participation in community development programs.
- Enforcement of Law and Order: Rural development helps to safeguard the rights of the rural people.
- Land Reforms: Rural development results in effective implementation of land reforms like regulation of rent, protection of tenancy rights, etc. It reduces rural inequality.
- Infrastructural Development: Infrastructure refers to all those services and facilities which are necessary for economic growth. Rural development leads to infrastructural development, e.g. power generation, transportation, irrigation, banking, etc.
- Availability of Credit: Rural development also leads to an increase in financial institutions like credit societies, RRB’s, Cooperative banks, etc. The provision of credit helps the farmers to improve their standard of living.
- Eradication of Poverty: Due to rural development, there is an increase in rural incomes. It results in the eradication of poverty. In short, rural development is necessary for the overall development of the rural sector and to improve the quality of life.
