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Rural development lagging despite nine per cent growth rate
Staff Reporter
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Vice-Chancellor calls for urgent and decisive action
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MADURAI: Rural development continues to fare poorly despite the country registering impressive growth rates (GDP) of around 9 per cent, a quantum leap from the 1960s and 1970s when it was crawling at around 3 per cent, the Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, C. Ramasamy, has said.
As per 2001 population census, the country needed 27,000 health centres. Even at present around 1.6 lakh villages lacked good road connectivity, 60 per cent rural households required power, thousands of villages lacked primary healthcare or primary education and water sources continued to remain far from many habitations.
He was speaking at a national seminar on ‘Millennium development goals and rural development: Role of education’ organised by Department of Rural Development Science and Arrupe Centre for Policy Research, Arul Anandar College, here recently.
Even among developing economies, India lagged behind.
Place at the index
The nation scored 0.577 in the global Human Development Index, ranking 124th in 2000. However, despite improving the score to 0.611 in 2004, it fell to 126 indicating some other countries fared better, said Dr. Ramasamy.
Reeling off further statistics, he said that the combined expenditure of Centre and State Governments on health nearly doubled from Rs. 28,578 crore in 2001-02 to Rs. 56,932 crore in 2006-07.
He called for urgent and decisive action to transform the social conditions and expand social opportunities and to focus on improving basic education, health, women empowerment, and related areas.
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