Ministry of Rural Development (India)

The Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India, is entrusted with the task of accelerating the socio-economic development of rural India. Its focus is on areas like agricultural productivity, sanitation solutions, employment generation, food security, etc.

As of May 2008, the Minister in charge of Rural Development is Vilasrao Deshmukh and Minister of State are Miss. Agatha Sangma, Mr. Shishir Adhikari and Mr. Pradeep Jain Aditya.On July 12 2011,The Ministry was given over to Jairam Ramesh,a IIT,MIT graduate.

References

• National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

See also

• District Rural Development Agencies
• NREGS

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