1Lecturer in
2Associate Professor,
India is a country of villages and the government of India has been implementing Various development programmes for the betterment of Rural communities. Rural development is a comprehensive socio-economic process undertaken for the purpose of improving the economic and social conditions of people living in rural areas. Non-governmental organizations as a third sector institutional framework are playing a crucial role in providing strong support to the development issues. A number of NGO's have been playing an important role in rural community development, besides government interventions. Realizing that the government alone was not able to meet the challenges and problems in the process of rural development. The NGO sector effectively work towards uplifting the socio-economic status of the poor. Society is a patterned system of interaction among the individuals and communities. The NGO's changes the pattern of social interaction. When such patterns change, substantial number of society members assumes new status and play new roles in the community. It also applies to the changes in the material aspects of life as well as in the ideas, values and attitudes of the people. However, despite their good intentions as large number of NGO's find it difficult to sustain in the long run i.e., sustainability of organizations as well as sustainability of projects.
Role of Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's) in Rural development was analyzed through a case study conducted on Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka state. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the working of NGO's for the rural development. The hypothesis set for the study is Rural development made available through NGO's with reasonable success.
