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Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there. [1]
[1] [2] According to the World Bank, India experienced a significant decline in the prevalence of extreme poverty from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019. A working paper of the bank said rural poverty declined from 26.3% in 2011 to 11.6% in 2019. The decline in urban areas was from 14.2% to 6.3% in the same period.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (Hindi: सांसद आदर्श ग्राम योजना, abbr.: SAGY) is a rural development programme broadly focusing upon the development in the villages which includes social development, cultural development and spread motivation among the people on social mobilization of the village community. [1]
Farmers in India. Agrarian distress refers to the economic, political, and social challenges faced by farmers and rural communities due to factors such as low crop yields, fluctuating prices of agricultural produce, high input costs, indebtedness, and lack of access to credit, markets, and infrastructure.
Rural areas have unique economic and social dynamics due to their relationship with land-based industry such as agriculture, forestry, and resource extraction. Rural economics can be subject to boom and bust cycles and vulnerable to extreme weather or natural disasters, such as droughts.
Hiroya Masuda, author of Japanese report on rural depopulation. [7] Post-World War II rural flight has been caused primarily by the spread of industrialized agriculture. Small, labor-intensive family farms have grown into, or have been replaced by, heavily mechanized and specialized industrial farms. While a small family farm typically produced ...
Eradicating rural poverty through effective policies and economic growth is a continuing difficulty for the international community, as it invests in rural development. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development , 70 percent of the people in extreme poverty are in rural areas, most of whom are smallholders or ...
The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". [71] According to 2011 census, 57.1% of Indian population know Hindi, [72] in which 43.63% of Indian people have declared Hindi as their native language or mother tongue. [73] [74] The language data was released on 26 June 2018. [75]