Abstract
Concerned by the slow growth in the agriculture and allied sectors, the National Development Council (NDC) resolved that a special additional central assistance scheme namely Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) be launched. The NDC resolved that agricultural development strategies must be reoriented to meet the needs of farmers and called upon the Central and State Governments to evolve a strategy to rejuvenate agriculture. The NDC reaffirmed its commitment to achieve 5.5 per cent annual growth in the agricultural sector during the 12th plan. The present investigation was conducted in Banswara district of southern Rajasthan. Banswara and Ghatol tehsils were selected for the present study on the basis of maximum number of tribal population. The study reveals that the majority of tribal beneficiaries reported remarkable change with regard to social aspects like experience and confidence increased due to interaction with fellow member and training received. The change to a remarkable extent was found by majority of beneficiaries with regard to economic aspects such as overall family income increased, standard of feeding and clothing improved, material possessed including household increased.
Highlights
India is a country of villages and agriculture is the main stay of the economy
Concerned by the slow growth in the agriculture and allied sectors, the National Development Council (NDC), in its meeting held on 29th May, 2007, resolved that a special additional central assistance scheme namely Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) be launched
Social change included total eleven items related to social life, where in, the improvement through RKVY was expected, while under sub-head economic change, total ten item were included which were related to areas were in improvement through RKVY was possible
Summary
India is a country of villages and agriculture is the main stay of the economy. According to the census of India, the total population of the country is about 1.21 billion marks on 2011. Poorer are 32.04 crores, this constitutes for 35.97 per cent poverty. 67 per cent of population is reported as under-employed and unemployed. Concerned by the slow growth in the agriculture and allied sectors, the National Development Council (NDC), in its meeting held on 29th May, 2007, resolved that a special additional central assistance scheme namely Rastriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) be launched. The RKVY aims at achieving 5.5 % annual growth in the agriculture sector during 12th plan period by ensuring a holistic development of agriculture and allied sectors. The scheme is essentially a State Plan Scheme that seeks to provide the States and Territories of India with the autonomy to draw up plans for increased public investment in agriculture by incorporating information on local requirements, geographical/climatic conditions, available natural resources/ technology and cropping patterns in their districts so as to significantly increase the productivity of agriculture and its allied sectors and eventually maximize the returns of farmers in agriculture and its allied sectors
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