Rural Education is The Shortest Route to Rural Development

Despite all the development attempts and mass urbanization efforts, nobody can deny the fact that a large part of Indian population still lives in the different villages located in different parts of the nation.  As Gandhi observed, it is a futile attempt to urbanize the Indian society and turn all the villages into cities. His ideas pin-pointed the fact that development can be made on a wide scale based on the villages of this nation. All that the rural society of this nation lacked was education, which also paved way for different other conditions detrimental to the development of this nation like, poverty, superstition, mal nutrition, female feticide, high child mortality rate, uncontrolled child birth, ignorance about sound health condition, etc.

However, what is believed nowadays is that it is rural education in India that can bring in a wave of change over a period of time, if not drastically. The aspect of rural development has been discussed in several important Government meetings organized for bringing in a feasible amount of change. However, the snag that holds people in certain parts of the country from effective development efforts is the fact that they are widely unaware of the necessity, process and result of development. If the people of rural India do not involve themselves in the process of development out there, it is almost impossible to make the procedure happen and become successful from outside. Education is the only tool that can expand the knowledge base of the people and help them to start thinking about their long term benefit. It helps them exploring new and effective avenues to be a part of the development in their own yard and yield maximum benefit out of the process.

The process of rural education in India has to be planned in such a systematic order that more and more people living in rural India can come under the umbrella without investing much time or money. The concerned authority of the Government of India as well as the NGOs (non-government organization) have already put in a lot of effort to improve the process of rural education in India.

In most cases, it has become important for the plans to be implemented so that people with very limited resources also agree to get involved in the process. After all, educating people living in the rural part of this nation is never possible until the rural audience find the process interesting and engaging.

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