living in urban areas than in rural areas. Rapid urbanization is defined as the process of a city expanding due to the growth of the population in a short period of time, expanding the city boarders by urbanizing up the ?outskirts?. It is often stereotyped as overpopulating the urban area creating congestion and unemployment. The negative impacts of rapid urbanization are undeniable, however rapid urbanization itself is a positive process, reducing poverty and advancing Millennium Development Goals;
Education and Skills Development: A Flagship programme for Rural Poverty Alleviation More than of half of the world’s population and nearly 70 per cent of the world’s poor made rural areas their home where hunger, illiteracy and low school achievement are ubiquitous. India lives in its villages where 68.84% of the country’s population eke out their living through agriculture and allied activities. For the economic development of our country, the development of rural areas and the standard of living
Housing Microfinance “Inadequate sanitation and housing threaten the lives and health of some 600 million urban dwellers world-wide.” – CGAP (Bonnie Brusky) This research paper will concentrate on the innovation of housing microfinance. Housing microfinance is helping to give loans to individuals that are suffering from poor infrastructure. This type of microfinance will aid in increasing the level of living standards. This paper will analyze the current organizations that deal with housing microfinance
Le Corbusier (The Contemporary City/Radiant City): Not all urban planning theories see a natural environment as the ideal urban space. In fact, some planners believed that in order to create a social environment, a city must be built at a very high density, and buildings would be connected by concrete plazas. Le Corbusier was a famous Swiss architect and urban planner who believed that higher density meant shorter distances to work and shopping, and this would be done by constructing a vertical
Nagpur is seen as one of the rapidly developing central India’s metro city and also ranks third in the list of the urban centres in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune. Nagpur enjoys the privilege of being termed as the richest, greenest and city with latent potential. Nagpur is an important urban centre in the Vidarbha region. It is the administrative capital of the district. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is the only corporation in the district with a jurisdictional area of about
Financial inclusion is the new concept which helps to achieve the sustainable development of the country. It provides banking and financial services to all people in a fair, visible and reasonable manner at affordable cost. The low income Households often lack to access bank account and have to spend time money for several visits to achieve the banking services. Financial inclusion is help to the sustainable societal and economic development of the country. It helps to the empowerment of underprivileged
Employment Generation, Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development through Economic Planning in India Dr. ShwetaBansal, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, J.V. Jain College, Saharanpur, India e.mail : vakul2008@gmail.com Abstract The implications of economic policies initiated and pursued by the Government for the creation of gainful employment opportunities. After independence, when India initiated the program of economic development through planning mechanism, neither of the two prevalent
the world urban population is rise from 7.4 billion to 9 billon. Much of this will be in the cities of developing and less developing countries (World Urbanization Prospects the 2011 Revision, 2012). Therefore maximum of the development will happen in Asia and Africa. Population will be living in urban areas by 2020 and 2035 respectively. It is forecast that the world’s urban population will grow by 1.4 billion during the period of 2011 and 2030. China will be Share 276 million and India be 218 million
Politics for the development of urban poor Introduction: Society is a ground of development and a sphere of constant change. From a Marxian perspective, changes in the forces and means of production leads to change in the structure of the society. As Marx underlined that forces of production will lead to class differences and polarization resultant of class conflict between the dominant and the subordinate class.From slavery to capitalism society has witnessed class differences. An urban community is
government started disbursing loans to families in rural areas that worked in the agricultural sector as well as city-dwelling families to promote economic growth throughout India with collaboration with the Indian Government. Households in the agricultural market were divided into three different groups of workers who