ISSN:-2230-7850Indian Streams Research Journal

Rural development has always been an important issue in all discussions pertaining to economic development, especially of developing countries, throughout the world. In the developing countries and some formerly communist societies, rural mass comprise a substantial majority of the population. Over 3.5 billion people live in the Asia and Pacific region and some 63 % of them in rural areas. Although, millions of rural people have escaped poverty as a result of rural development in many Asian countries, a large majority of rural people continue to suffer from relentless poverty. Even after sixty-six years of independence, India is still a developing country. India is a rural based country, where 73 percent of the people live in habitations and nearly 260 million people live below poverty line. Rural development is one of the important missions for transforming India into a developed nation. Presently, there is a big gap between the urban and rural India in terms of basic civic amenities and employment. The present research paper is an attempt to analyze the crucial role for rural development by launching a project entitled “PURA ” in several states of India such as Tripura, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Rajasthan by providing physical, electronic, knowledge, economic connectivities in rural areas by the Oi