Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Sustainable Rural Empowerment

Abstract

The Government of India has been initiating plenty of rural development programmes for the betterment of rural people who are generally expecting more from the Government than people in urban and semi-urban areas. Whenever the new Government comes into power, the rural empowerment is an important agenda in its stipulated period of its regime. The reason behind for this is that India is a land of scattered villages where more than 70% of people living in rural community and agriculture and its allied businesses are the only source of income. People in villages should be educated towards the different rural development programmes introduced and implemented by the respective central and state government for their well being. For educating the rural people as a whole in India, Government of India, though introduced and implemented hefty number of social project programmes in Central and State level, may take further effort to ensure rural empowerment in the form of every people get an opportunity to know and use either directly or indirectly or both about Information and Communication of new and existing rural development programmes of Central and State Governments through Information Communication Technology freely by the year 2020.