Journal resource in rural India

Human Resource for Rural Health in India – A Pragmatic Reality

India with a population of 102.7 crores of people, out of whom majority (around 73%) lives in rural areas, needs to make gigantic efforts for significant improvement in its public health scenario. The prerequisite for it is the availability of adequate number of human resources with suitable skills and their appropriate deployment at different levels of health care system for providing an effec...

Telemedicine in Rural India

I n a developing country such as India, there is huge inequality in health-care distribution. Although nearly 75% of Indians live in rural villages, more than 75% of Indian doctors are based in cities [1]. Most of the 620 million rural Indians lack access to basic health care facilities [2]. The Indian government spends just 0.9% of the country's annual gross domestic product on health, and lit...

Rural Development in India

Rural and rural energy development in India

Over 70% of the population in India lives in the rural areas of the country. The needs of this vast population, subsistence or otherwise (livelihood related), have been addressed by several programmes and initiatives guided by central or state policies. The policies or ensuing programmes have, however, been sectoral—planned and managed by specific ministries or departments. Energy too has been ...

Journal of Rural Cooperation

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...