Awareness of Politics and Rural Development Programmes among Women in Salem District

Abstract

Women comprise nearly half of the national population of a country. The Government of India launches a large number of rural development programmes to promote rural poor areas, particularly for women and at the same time the government to reservation of seats for women at 33 percent level encourages to participate in local self governance like 73rdConstitution Amendment Act 1992. Nevertheless, planned developments in India have not achieved much for women, especially rural women. The present paper focuses on the awareness of politicsand rural development programmes among rural women. Therefore, the present paper contains an introduction, literature review, objectives, methodology, women, politics and rural development programmes in general and awareness of rural women at field level.