Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

Mahathma Gandhiji Thought on Rural Reconstruction and Role of Village Development Societies

Dr. D Vijay Chander

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Indian rural life is far from simple. There are approximately 650,244 villages in India. Each     village connected through variety of crucial horizontal linkages with other villages. Gandhiji said that ‘If the village perishes India will perish too. Our villages represent our Indian culture and Heritage. Gandhiji had told that, if anything to know about India, then should about its villages. The previous Governments had several projects for development of rural area, and to create employment to the rural people and for upliftment of their life, such as Employment guarantee scheme, pulse for cooli scheme (KooligaagiKallu) Improvement of small farmers’ scheme, improvement projects of drought areas. Village development is an integral part of the overall development. A policy of village development is a policy of national development. village development has been an important component of India’s efforts towards betterment of living standards of the people and to this end of country has implemented a large number of village development planning’s and programmes.

This paper is based on secondary sources. It focus on concepts of rural development,             Gandhiji’s ideas on reconstruction and role of village development societies.

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Mahathma Gandhiji Thought on Rural Reconstruction and Role of Village Development Societies , Dr. D Vijay Chander , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-11| November-2018

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