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Transform Rural India
Annual Report 2022-23

Why is this

important?

By 2047, India will remain largely rural. innovation ecosystem, strategic geopolitical With three-fourth of rural India
Rural India fares far worse than the positioning, and improved welfare delivery receiving free food grain, we are
national average on almost every systems have created the right conditions to the largest concentration of
development indicator. Higher poverty irreversibly uplift rural India out of deprivation.
rates, lower primary school enrolment This transformation aims to provide better welfare-funded population in
and retention rates, increased living conditions, enhance the quality of life, the world. Rural India faces
malnutrition rates, and greater and unlock the social and economic potential complex and interconnected
discrimination against women and of rural communities. While progress has social and economic challenges
marginalised sections of society. been made in reducing poverty, the recent rooted in intergenerational and
Comparatively, villages have inadequate economic slowdown, particularly during the structural deprivations.
public amenities and are bereft of similar pandemic, resulted in a regression, with a
opportunities available to urban Indians. significant portion of rural India relying on Inadequate governance and the
Extensive research and documentation welfare assistance. With three-fourth of rural shortcomings of the state
have highlighted the widespread India receiving free food grain, we are the machinery hinder growth.
aspiration to leave villages due to the largest concentration of welfare-funded The current decade, various
glaring urban-rural opportunity divide. population in the world. Rural India faces referred as "Golden Period"
This divide, affecting a substantial complex and interconnected social and represents a crucial window for
population, is morally reprehensible and economic challenges rooted in transform rural India. It requires
poses social, economic and ecological intergenerational and structural deprivations.
sustainability concerns. Inadequate governance and the shortcomings bold ideas, innovations, and
of the state machinery hinder growth. The collective societal efforts to
Realising our ambitions of becoming a current decade, various referred as "Golden effectively uplift rural areas.
high-income country and achieving the Period" represents a crucial window for
Sustainable Development Goals hinges transform rural India. It requires bold ideas,
on transforming rural areas. Favorable innovations, and collective societal efforts to
factors such as economic growth, effectively uplift rural areas.
substantial public investments, an

Comparatively, villages
have inadequate public
amenities and are
bereft of similar
opportunities available
to urban Indians.

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