RURAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES BY THE TELANGANA GOVERNMENT: A STUDY

Abstract

Rural development denotes the upliftment of rural areas by increasing the living standards of the people residing in rural areas through the exploitation of natural resources available. Actions taken up by the concerned authority for the rural development mainly aims at the social and economic development of the rural areas. It can either be sustainable development friendly or not. If it does not maintain the guidelines of sustainable development, then it is not considered as proper development in its truest term. In a country like India, where more than 70 per cent of population is directly or indirectly engaged in agriculture related profession, there must be a definite strategy for rural development on part of the government. Besides the Union government, the respective State governments of India also try their best to develop their rural sectors to bring overall growth. This research paper focuses on the approaches of the Telangana State government towards its rural sectors, their development policies and their executions. The paper focuses on the data related to rural reporting published by national English daily and evaluates the approaches of the concerned State government.