A Review of Rural Development and Poverty Amelioration Programmes in Niyamatabad Block, District Chandauli

Abstract

Poverty is chronic and multi-dimensional in nature in India. It is concentrated in the rural areas of certain states
as well as in certain social groups. Rural poor have identifiable occupational structure concentrating specially in
agricultural labour and artisanal households group in rural areas. Rural poverty is now multiplied with the
population explosion and unemployment situation. A number of rural development programmes has been
launched in the Five Years Plans to raise income, provide employment, make masses literate and alleviate the
poverty of rural poor in the country. This paper evaluates different rural development programmes implemented in the study area