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Department Of Rural Development
The Department of Rural Development of India was first established on October 1974 and since then the Departments status and name have been changed many times. During 1999 the Department of Rural development was created under the simultaneously formed Ministry of Rural Development of India. Since its inception the Department has been the prime mover in the progress of the vast rural areas of India by implementing various schemes and programs for the socio-economic development of the rural population.
Acts of the Department of Rural Development
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Central Council) Rules of 2006 were the result of the continuous effort of the Department of Rural Development of the Ministry of Rural Development of India.
Organization
The primary executive unit of the Department of Rural Development is the District Rural Development Agencies or DRDAs that work through the respective State Governments.
The organizational structure as prescribed by the Department of Rural Development is as follows:
- Project Director: The project director is the head of all the wings and personnel in the DRDA, who is appointed by the State governments as a regulator and point of contact between the Department of Rural Development and the rural regions.
- Self-Employment Wing: This wing is headed by a Project officer who is in turn supported by several Assistant Project officers. This wing is responsible for all the matters regarding the promotion and execution and management of the various rural self-employment schemes designed by the government.
- Woman’s Wing: This wing will ensure the proper representation and assimilation of the female population in all the programs conducted by this specific agency and will work co-operatively with other intra-governmental agencies for women’s welfare.
- Wage Employment Wing: This wing implements the several programs of the government to provide consistent work on wages for the rural population
- Watershed Wing: The aim of this wing is to educate and implement the people of the region regarding the proper large scale water storage techniques and so on.
- Engineering Wing: This wing is the technical expertise of a DRDA for construction of various structures for the improvement of a region.
- Accounting Wing: This wing is responsible for maintaining commercial accounting practices regarding the financial records of a DRDA
- Monitoring Wing: This wing of a DRDA is responsible for proper evaluation and reporting of the various works of the agency to the Project Director.
Functions
- As a point of contact between various rural development agencies and the rural populace, under the Council of Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) and National Fund for Rural Development and all the related co-operative institutions.
- Road Infrastructure carried out or financed by the Union government of India like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), according to the sixth schedule of the Indian Constitution.
- Every issue consisted in the Government of India’s participation in the Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and Pacific (CIRDAP) and the Afro-Asian Rural Reconstruction Organization (AARRO).
- Designing and implementing programs for eradicating rural unemployment by generation of sustainable work on wages or schemes for self-employment and the subsequent administration and management of the infrastructure.
- The socio-economic development, of the poor and backward sections of the rural society (like landless laborers and small farmers), for their integration into the mainstream
- Implementation of the Rural Housing Policy and matters regarding rural planning.