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RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION [1]

Paper Code: 
MRD 125
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To develop a conceptual understanding of the rural administrative structure

7.00
Unit I: 
Administrative structure

• Administrative machinery
• Change in the administrative set up at the district level after the constitution (73 rd amendment) Act, 1992
• Relationship between the official functionaries and the elected representatives of the people
• Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural technology (CAPART).

15.00
Unit II: 
Panchayati Raj

• Historical overview
• Post independence period
• The constitution (73 rd amendment) Act, 1992
• The provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996

10.00
Unit III: 
Cooperatives in rural Development - I

• Meaning and principles of cooperation
• Evolution of cooperatives in India
• Growth and development of credit cooperatives – structure of cooperative credit system, primary agricultural cooperative society, district central cooperative banks, state cooperative banks and rural development banks.

10.00
Unit IV: 
Cooperatives in rural Development - II

• Growth and development of the non credit cooperatives – cooperative marketing, processing cooperatives, cooperative sugar mills, dairy cooperatives, fertilizer cooperatives, industrial cooperatives.
• Regional imbalances in the growth and development of cooperatives
• Assessment and evaluation of the cooperatives.

18.00
Unit V: 
Rural Credit and Banking

• Role of credit in rural development
• Non organisational credit in rural areas – informal credit sources, credit cooperatives, micro credit
• Organized banking and rural credit – commercial banks, regional rural banks, NABARD, Service Area Approach

Essential Readings: 

• Bhattacharya, Mohit 1979, Bureaucracy and Development Administration, Uppal Publishing House, New Deldi.
• Mukarji, Nirmal, Self Government and Its Instrumantalities, GOI, Dept. of Rural Development.
• Ashok Sharma, (2004), Prashasan, RBSA Publisher.
• S. L. Goel & Shalini Ramesh, Panchayati Raj in India.
• S. R. Maheshwari, (2005), Local Gin India, Laxmi Narayan Agrawal
• Katar Singh, (1999), Rural Development, Sage Publications.
• Hoshiar Singh, (2005), Administration of Rural Development in India, Kitab Mahal Prakashan.

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