Rural Development Strategies

Q. Describe the rural development strategies followed by the local government institutions of Bangladesh?

Local government institutions of Bangladesh have an important role for development. There are 4 tiers of rural local government institutions. These are:

1. Gram Parishad
   
2. Union Parishad
   
3. Thana or Upzila Parishad
   
4. District or Zila Parishad
   

There are many strategies followed by the local government institutions for rural development. These are given below:

• Formulation of growth centre or development of rural market.
  
• Take steps to develop agriculture as tree plantation, cattle breeding, cottage industries, water supply and communication.
  
• These institutions work for developing the local resources and ensure their proper uses.
  
• To expand the family planning policy for control the population growth.
  
• To protect the resources of people namely road, bridge, culvert, canal, telephone etc.
  
• Encourage the people to use sanitary latrines.
  
• To manage all kinds of census.
  
• These institutions maintain low and peace and help the administration about this, take steps to protect offence noisy and stealthy.
  
• Make plans for natural resources management and development.
  
• Supervise management of primary educational institutions, motivate parents to send their children to school and create better awareness for adult and female literacy.
  
• Support various development activities related to agriculture.
  
• Create awareness for better primary health care.
  
• Maintain law and order and control terrorism, violence against women.
  

And also there are some strategies provided by 5^th 5 year plan of Government of Bangladesh. Such are:

• Provision of skill training mostly for self employment in non farm sector.
  
• Formal and informal group formation and group development for co-operative activity.
  
• Resource mobilization through individual or group savings.
  
• Creation of enabling environment for availing for credit facilities.
  
• Social mobilization for awareness creation on various aspects of rural life.
  
• Development of small and landless farmers.
  
• Development of rural infrastructures such as growth centers and roads, bridges and culverts connection such centers.
  
• Provision of small irrigation and flood control related infrastructures.
  
• Preventing destitution through rural maintenance programme and
  
• Covering at least one full administrative district under any project with one or more of the programme components of productive employment, rural infrastructures and small scale irrigation and flood control infrastructures to find out the replicable.
  

These are the strategies which can assure rural development and hold the trends of development.