1. Understanding Rural Development
2. Indicators of Development
3. Theories of Development
4. Gender and Rural Development
5. Green Revolution and Food Security
6. Income and Employment Generation Programs
7. Education For All
8. Health For All
9. Participatory Approach to Development
10. Financing Rural Development
11. Population and Development
12. Natural Resource Management Approach to Rural Development.

The objective of this module would be to have an overview of the continuities and changes in the rural social structure and polity in India after independence. The issues for discussion would include :

Approaches to understand rural society and polity
Rural social stratification and change
Caste and politics
Rural power structure
Women and the Panchayati Raj

Module I : Resources and Livelihood Concepts.

Understanding Rural Livelihood systems
Agro-Climatic Resources of India

Module II : Production Systems

Agriculture
Horticulture
Animal Husbandry and Dairying
Forests
Fisheries

Module III : Environmental Sustainability & Livelihoods

Sustainable Agriculture
Strategies for Sustainable Resource Management
Micro Planning

Introduction to Economics and Economic Analysis
Basic Training – total, average and marginal Analysis
Demand Analysis and usefulness of understanding demand for decision making.
Theory of Cost and Production
Incremental cost principal and break even analysis
Understanding market and Market structure
Pricing and Pricing Strategy

1. Course outline, Methodology, Expectations
2. Project – Definitions, Attributes
3. Projects – classification – Project Life Cycle.
4. Project identification – Demand – Supply Gap.
5. Generation of ideas : Tools Initial project screening.
6. Project feasibility studies – An overview of factors
7. Expectations of Fis in project proposals.
8. Project cost estimation - WBS
9. Project Appraisal & Selection Criteria
10. Project Risk Analysis
11. Vegetron Limited : Case Discussion.
12. Project Implementation Planning - WBS
13. Introduction to network techniques.
14. Preparation of Networks
15. Resource estimation, leveling, allocation
16. Concept of Optimum Project Duration
17. Probabilistic networks
18. Project Organization.
19. Project Purchase and Accounting
20. Project Contracts
21. Project Monitoring and Control
22. Meaning & use of Earned Value.
23. Project completion and Handing over
24. Sharon Construction : Case Discussion
25. Role of Project Manager from concept to completion of projects & his profile.
26. Critical Project Success Factors
27. Wrap-up discussion and feedback

1. Introduction – projects, rural development, project cycle
2. Project Formulation
3. Cost- Benefit Analysis
4. Exercise : Ani-Chocolate Project of Kepong Cattlefeeds
5. An Irrigation Project (Sardar Sarovar Project)
6. An Animal Health Project (Foot and Mouth Disease Control Project).
7. A Rural Road Project (Metalling the Ramnagar-Rahimnagar Road)
8. A Rural Energy Project (Biogas Project of Ramdas Trust)
9. Income Generation and Environmental Project (Tree Growers’ Co-operatives)
10. A Watershed Project.
11. Presentations by the groups of participants on the identified projects

1. Introduction – Natural resources, types of uses, stocks and flows, renewable and non-renewable,
2. general issues.
3. Theories, Principals, Tools and Techniques for Optimal Use- Sustainability, marginal principals,
4. taxes and Subsidies, game theory.
5. Water Resources – Availability and use, water quality, water balance statement, cost of water
6. from alternative sources.
7. Land Use, Degradation and Reclamation – Soil quality, land capability Classes, degraded lands,
8. economics of prevention and reclamation
9. Air Quality – Ambient air quality, sources of pollution, economic tools for improving air quality.
10. Forest Resources – Products and services, quantification and valuation, eco-development.
11. Mineral Resources – User cost, economic exhaustion, Strategies for use of exhaustible resources.
12. Energy Resources – Conventional and non-conventional sources, their Equivalence, comparative economics.
13. Fisheries – Sustainable yield, economic equilibrium, bionomic Equilibrium.
14. Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting at National Level.
15. Natural Resource Accounting at Organisation Level.
16. International Environmental and Resource Issues – Ozone depletion, global climate change, economic impacts.

1. Need for Credit, Savings and Insurance
2. Role of Financial Intermediation
3. Rural Credit Policy and Institutions in India
4. Micro-Finance and NGOs
5. Self-Help Groups
6. Promoting Self-Help Groups
7. Micro Credit and Micro Enterprise
8. Rural Insurance
9. Case of SEWA Bank
10. Case of Grameen Bank

The aim of the module would be to understand the nature and types of NGOs, their relationship with the government, and their role in promoting sustainable development, people’s participation and empowerment.

Nature and types of NGOs
Government policy towards NGOs in India
NGOs and sustainable development
NGOs and people’s participation
NGOs and empowerment

Introduction – Need for collective action.
Reasons for absence and/or failure of Collective Action
Theories of Collective Action
Role of Leadership in Collective Action
Rules, Norms and Institutions and Collective Actions
Designing Successful collective Action Cooperation.