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Importance of Sustainable Rural Development through Agrarian Reforms: An Indian Scenario

Importance of Sustainable Rural Development through Agrarian Reforms: An Indian Scenario

Partha Mukhopadhyay, Madhabendra Sinha, Partha Pratim Sengupta
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522523642|ISBN10: 1522523642|EISBN13: 9781522523659
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2364-2.ch014
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Mukhopadhyay, Partha, et al. "Importance of Sustainable Rural Development through Agrarian Reforms: An Indian Scenario." Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth, edited by Ramesh Chandra Das, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 290-306. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2364-2.ch014

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Mukhopadhyay, P., Sinha, M., & Sengupta, P. P. (2017). Importance of Sustainable Rural Development through Agrarian Reforms: An Indian Scenario. In R. Das (Ed.), Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth (pp. 290-306). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2364-2.ch014

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Mukhopadhyay, Partha, Madhabendra Sinha, and Partha Pratim Sengupta. "Importance of Sustainable Rural Development through Agrarian Reforms: An Indian Scenario." In Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth, edited by Ramesh Chandra Das, 290-306. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2364-2.ch014

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Abstract

The chapter tries to find out the relationship between public expenditures on infrastructure related to agriculture and allied factors and agricultural sustainability in Indian context. India has been suffering from appalling chronic poverty and to reduce the same, we need to focus on rural development, particularly in agriculture as it is unavoidable relation with economic development. Gini index of India is 33.9 (2011) i.e. asymmetrical wealth distribution exists. India is being burdened with a population of 1.2 billion as in 2015. The reciprocal relationship between agrarian reform and democratic development is pronounced. Agrarian reform was one of the focal points around which social mobilization occurred. Sustainable rural development could be achieved by a new balance as we find from some econometric model, which is being sought between agriculture and public expenditure and also export of agricultural produce. Adopting bottom-up agricultural development approaches which emphasize the involvement of the rural people in the implementations of different development programmes may escalate agrarian reforms.

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