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Rural Livelihoods in India have been devoid of access to several of the facilities in terms of basic minimum services as well as development. The core issue among the rural livelihoods has been the disadvantageous position they have been placed in view of polarisation of development efforts. On one hand India has the distinction of sending IT professionals across the world and earning accolades for their services and efficiency. On the other India has the substantial incidence of poverty and in terms of quantity it possess highest number of poverty-ridden people. A closer look at the phenomenon further reveals that the urban areas in India have been better equipped in terms of facilities and services and whereas the rural areas have been devoid of basic minimum services etc. The better facilities in urban areas in terms of education, infrastructure, transport etc. have been making the urban life more on development path. Contemporarily the rural areas in the country have been exactly in opposite frame in this regard. Thus, the rural livelihoods have been in more disadvantageous position.
Further, deriving out of their disadvantageous position in terms of access to basic facilities, the rural livelihoods has the tendency to undermine their own human resources. Though they work hard and make relentless effort to achieve their targeted role yet they mostly fall short of their expected achievement. The missing link in this regard has been the lack of refinement to their own human resources. Thus, though the rural areas are rich in natural resources yet lack of appropriate human resources or under utilisation or synchronisation between human resources and natural resources have been leading to underdevelopment in rural areas.
This in context, the factual insight leads to a fact that with little bit facilitation process the human resources mobilisation can take place in rural areas and thus leading to optimum utilisation of resources. Such situation would certainly facilitate sustainable development. Having factual insight on this aspect, a few of the young enthusiasts pooled their resources and formed a voluntary organization named Centre for Human Activity and Rural Development (Registration No. 4553/1994).