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Rural India, with more than 1 billion people, is in the vortex of a transformational crisis in the social, economic,technological and political arenas of development. The transformation that it is undergoing broadly consists of:
• Change of an agrarian economy into a modern multidimensional economy.
• Change of a traditional stratified society into an egalitariansociety.
• Change into a modern democracy through the Panchayati Raj and other people's institutions.
• Change into a knowledge society by linking knowledge with development and enabling its adaptation and spread, as well as building knowledge networks.
• Migration of population caused by urban pull and rural factors. ...More