Inadequate rural infrastructure and services increasing regional disparities and hindering socio-economic growth

Abstract

Poor rural infrastructure is the main hindrance for development, where scarcities of rural development institutions further worsen development prospects. Rural infrastructure and services like education, health, safe drinking water, sanitation, nutrition etc. should therefore, be brought together in the form of an essential compulsion to improve the socio-economic condition of the rural people. The present study is placed within the growing field of interest in government policy and its impact on the distribution of infrastructure in a geographically underprivileged area. There are several themes running through the study like, infrastructural and institutional impact on social status, models of service provisions, imbalance in development with respect to infrastructure, effect of communication, transportation on economy and regional disparity linked with non-availability of other rural development institutions. The results of the study may be made applicable to maintain balanced infrastructural development and eradicate institutional disparity at the meso and micro level to fight against social and economic unfairness. The model developed through research can be implemented anywhere, at least on an experimental basis..