The UT of Jammu and Kashmir has embarked on an ambitious and extensive programme of reaching out to grass root citizens to create an earnest desire for a decent standard of living in the rural masses.
The ‘Back to Village’ program is aimed to involve the citizens of the state and government officials in a joint effort to deliver the mission to achieve equitable development. The program seeks to energise Panchayats and direct development efforts in rural areas through community participation.
Despite the importance of the official machinery to guide and assist, the primary responsibility for improving the local conditions rests on the local population. Therefore, people must be encouraged to own a programme to maximise its impact.
Hence, citizens are invited to share their ideas and suggestions.
Last date of submission is 30th November 2022.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Specifically: 1) What factors contribute to the massive imbalance in village development?
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
This mosaic of rural regions directly raises a series of questions especially about the driving forces and mechanism behind this pattern.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Hence, rural regions in China may be seen with winners, losers, and in-betweens.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Despite this, there have also been massive successful villages appearing better development (Che, 2008; Fang, 2009; Tu et al., 2018; Wang and Zhao, 2009; Yuan, 2004; Zhu, 2007).
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
However, growth and development at the village level have generally been much slower than in urban areas (Li, Liu, & Long, 2012).
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
In recent decades, villages have been the main battlefield in which the problems of agriculture, farmers and rural regions are being resolved.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
China has rich diversity of villages with many attractive qualities and essential resources for the future growth of the whole country (Dumreicher, 2006)
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Even if China's urbanization level could reach 60% or even higher in the coming period, there will still be nearly 500–600 million people living in the vast rural areas, providing agricultural-related products and services for 1.4–1.5 billion people (Li, Liu, Long, & Guo, 2013a).
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Villages are basic economic and social units of rural China and even in many other countries, which support massive production and living behaviours of rural residents (Bebbington et al., 2006; Bernard et al., 2008; Howell, 1998; Tu et al., 2018).
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
These actors, interactions and processes could be theorized as a conceptual model for rural development: the bearing model. This study could help better understand the political ecology of rural development during the transition from urban bias to rural priority.