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WHY RURAL INDIA FAILS TO PROSPER? (Part II)

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  In continuation of our earlier blog on the same topic, we are trying to understand the various factors other than the lack of open meetings causing rural India to fail to prosper as expected? Though the lack of open meetings in villages is a major cause for non-development there are various other inter-link causes for hampering the growth in rural India. In this blog, we may not be able to cover each factor in detail, but we can list down the significant factors as root causes and we can provide details of each factor in later blogs. Agriculture or Farmers are the most popular words in a democracy like India because more than half of the population (~65%) belongs to Rural India. For rural India, Indian Government has all the schemes to support farmers, pensions for poor old age/widow/handicapped under social welfare schemes, free education in Government school (under Right to Education), Food security system under Public Distribution System (PDS) to provide food and non-food items