Rural development, as an area of study, is broadly concerned with the actions and initiatives taken to improve the standard of living in areas outside towns and cities, focusing on:
A.
Only large-scale industrial development
B.
Only urban housing policy
C.
Human resource, land reforms, infrastructure, and poverty alleviation in rural areas
C. Human resource, land reforms, infrastructure, and poverty alleviation in rural areas
2.
According to NCERT, key areas of concern for rural development in India include development of human resources, land reforms, development of the productive resources of each locality, and:
A.
Reduction of literacy programmes
B.
Abolition of agriculture
C.
Expansion of infrastructure like electricity, irrigation, credit, and marketing
Sources of rural credit in India are broadly classified into institutional (formal) and non-institutional (informal) sources; which of the following is an example of a non-institutional source?
