Rural Research Project: Hodko

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2008

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MICA

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Before launching into a full fledged Rural project report, it is important to understand why it was important to undertake a report in the first place in face of the changes that are taking hold of Indian rural scenario and economy today. Spread across 650,000 villages, with an average population of 1,100, rural villagers in India were long imagined by city dwellers as primitive, impoverished and irrelevant, Today a new prosperity is sprouting in rural India, with tens of millions entering the pressurecooker- and-television-owning class and tens of thousands in some of the richer hinterlands becoming sippers of Scotch, owners of premium tractors and drivers of multiple sedans even. The opening of this new frontier of consumer demand from 700 million people could tip India's role in the global economy from seller to buyer, from a vendor of outsourced skills to a source of consumers for the world's wares. Multinational corporations, from Coca-Cola to Nokia, appear increasingly keen to understand Indian villagers for their roles as sellers as well as buyers. Today through mutual consensus, rural India comprising the bottom of the pyramid is the projected ruler of the pyramid.

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Rural Development & problems, study by students

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