Dimensions of Rural Development
1. Development of agriculture and allied activities
- In rural development importance should be given to development of agriculture and allied activities. This includes developing high yielding and hybrid seeds, fertilizers and chemicals, knowledge of pesticide management, nutrition management, preservation of bio-diversity, maintaining indigenous technical knowledge and germplasm.
2. Socio-economic and political development
- It aims at improving the socio-economic and political condition of the rural people. Rural development may be meaningful and significant when the rural people have freedom to express their opinion, free and fair franchise in democracy, increased purchasing power, elimination of poverty and freedom from indebtedness.
3. Improving quality of rural life
- In this dimension, activities may include construction of rural durable assets and infrastructure like roads, bridges, power supply and educational facilities. Improving health and sanitation, adoption of information and communication technology (ICT), new product development for rural market, durable agriculture goods and services like banking, telephone, insurance etc.
4.Rural disaster risk mitigation
- Disaster risk mitigation is an important aspect of sustainable rural development. For this purpose community risk perception, risk identification, risk mitigation and risk transfer through insurance like crop insurance, Kisan credit card etc.Should be taken into account. Prevention of river bank erosion, flood and draught control measures, community capacity building area are also included in this dimension
