As we know India lives in its villages, despite it our rural people have not acquired symptoms of prosperity. Social Work, A recent branch of knowledge can contribute a lot towards the process of rural development. Social workers as champions of social justice can play multiple role with required interventions to promote community development. Their roles can fulfil the gaps between service delivery and utilisation of such services by community people. Around 67 years of independence, still our rural sector has been suffering from the various social as well as economic calamities which have blocked the perspectives of social development of rural India. The rural India due to deprivation from basic social necessities has not overcome the barriers for effective community development. This book provides a wide-ranging review of existing writing and research on rural social services and explores some of the distinctive features of rural contexts and rural problems. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development’.
Introduction — Problems in Rural Environment — Rural India: Perspectives on Equitable Development — Status of Rural Electrification and Electricity Services in India — Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Capacity — Scaling-up Microfinance for India's Rural Poor — Women, Work, and the Rural Economy — Challenges and Opportunities for Transformation in Rural Areas — Success and Failure of SHG's in India — Expanding Immunization Coverage in Rural India — Panchayati Raj: The Role of Panchayats in Integrated Rural Development — Bibliography — Index —
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