Asia Pacific Journal of Research in Business Management

Rural development programs refer to all the interventions, usually implemented by the state or by aid agencies routed through the state agencies. In Indian context, these generally include policies and attempts made for alleviating the socio-economic conditions of the poor in the villages or developing backward areas. Before rural development can be successful, the important role of women has to be acknowledged. Moreover, they have to be fully integrated. Though the Government of India declared year 2001 as ‘Women's Empowerment Year’ to focus on a vision ‘where women are equal partners like men’, but still to recognize women as the driving force for rural development. The existing models of farmer field school and farmer-to-farmer learning approaches have yet to recognize women from taking advantage of such technology transfer approaches. It is important to explore the concept of increasing rural women's skills as technology trainers and knowledge providers in the rural areas. In-depth assessments of the roles and constraints faced by rural women in different circumstances should be undertaken in order to guide the development and application of appropriate technologies. Training should build according to their capacity and should be tied together to improve rural women's access to technical information. Thus the paper brings out the concept of Force field analysis in managing the E-Education among rural women, and their standards of living. The idea is to diffuse the concept of E-Education/innovation among rural women in making them more self independent, self-employed efficient, which inturn helps in the process of E-Governance.