Inclusive Rural Development in India: Emerging Issues, Approaches & Strategies, (4 Volumes)

Inclusive growth is a broad concept covering economic. social and cultisal aspects of development. A growth, is broad-based across sectors and inclusive of the larger of the country's poor, disadvantaged, deprived and excluded sections of citizens. Inclusive growth . people of all sections and regions get on participate in the growth process, which implies engendering the policy design that includes the people who get excluded in normal course as also to make a variety of provisions and services accessible to al sections including those who got excluded so far. The concept of inclusiveness involves four attributes viz opportunities, capabilities. access and security. Consistent with this, 'inclusive growth' is a process, in economic growth, measured by a sustained expansion in GDP, contributes to an enlargement scale and scope of all four dimensions. India's recent growth performance has been spectacu:a line country remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world. But these achievements have created new challenges. Inclusive rural development is of paramount importance as majority of population lives in villages. The development planning and strategies have to be inclusive as India cannot afford the exclusion of a large section of the population. Against this view point, the present set of volumes "Inclusive Rural Development" in four parts contains 66 well written papers highlighting on various issues, dimensions and aspects of agriculture, rural development, natural resources management, women empowerment, micro finance, information communication. community development, etc. The set of volumes focuses on inclusive planning. growth and development of rural development in Indian perspective. The volumes depict varied issues and dimensions of inclusive rural development in India. It is expected that the volumes will be of immense importance for the policy makers. administrators, development professionals, scholars and those who are interested in the field of rural development in understanding the pertinent issues of rural development.