Department of Home Science Extension Education, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore
Online published on 27 December, 2011.
For any country, development of rural areas is a pre-requisite for the overall growth of the economy and it is particularly important for a developing country such as India, where 71% of its one billion plus population reside in the rural areas. There is thus a serious thinking on part of policy planners and implementing agencies that for a prosperous India, strengthening of the network of rural infrastructure facilities is critical. As countries develop, infrastructure must adapt to support changing patterns of demand, as the shares of power, roads, and telecommunications in the total stock of infrastructure increase relative to those of such basic services as water and irrigation. Rural infrastructure development is a complex phenomena, due to the many attributes of infrastructure that make it difficult for individuals to design, construct, operate and maintain these services effectively and efficiently.
