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Rural development needs to complement urban development so that a balanced growth will be ensured and growth in each sector will be mutually reinforcing. Currently rural development is constrained by a slew of factors such as lack of adequate employment opportunities and consequential rural-to-urban migration, frequent occurrence of drought and resultant loss of agricultural output and income, growing erosion of cropped area due to faster pace of urbanization and industrialization, dwindling water resources and asymmetries and disparities in terms of economics and social indicators. Solution to these issues lie in the reinvigoration of the agricultural sector, generation of gainful employment, creation of sufficient infrastructure in rural areas, thrust on a broad based manufacturing sector and strengthening of social services in rural areas.


 

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