Rural Development Constraints

Q. Why those efforts could not bring substantial upliftment of rural poor?

V-AID (Village Agriculture and Industrial Development) launched in 1953, the primary objective of this program- the creation of a spirit of self-help among villagers and rising their output and real income by linking them with government services.

The program helped rural infrastructure project adopt modern techniques for farming, livestock, cooperatives sanitation and health and cottage industries.

But the programs and those efforts could not bring substantial upliftment of rural poor because-

• Lack of political and administrative commitment.

• Bureaucratic leadership from outside the village

• Poor coordination between V-AID workers and the nation building department.

• Creation of a government- dependency.

• Foreign aided development pattern.

Only success of VAID is it provide some information and identify problems of employment in rural areas of Bangladesh.