Programme Overview - PGDRD

Rural Development has inevitably became a distinct profession. Development of rural masses is a composite concern and a movement to be operationalized under extremely diverse milieu; this course prepares the students to meet the challenges posed by the profession and moulds them into change agents-facilitators in the process of development.

The faculty has adopted clear-cut objectives that focus on the following:
Sensitizing the students to pay due respect to the rural masses and their wisdom.
Inculcating the value of people’s participation in development process.
Equipping the students with the required knowledge, skills, and self-confidence, this will enable them to be effective and competent in their solemn task.
Infusing the professional knowledge and skill among the students for successful planning, implementing and managing of developmental programmes

To keep abreast with the latest developments in the field of management and rural development the course has been revised and updated recently.

Learning from Experience
Rural people are hard to reach. It is not easy to help them.
Proper project selection demands focusing not on the means but the end, not the library but the village, not the methodology of appraisal but the poor rural people.
Literacy is a social practice. Therefore, a number of literacy practices do exist in a given society. The strength of the Rural Development Professionals will truly rest on how good they are in the social political and cultural literacy of rural people.
Rural Development demands pluralistic approach. Therefore, focus should be on optimization and not maximization.
Our profession should be treated as opportunity oriented. Thus, Rural Development is basically and affair of the inhabitant of rural area. In other words, the process must start from within.

Courses - PGDRD
Semester - I
Rural economy and development
Society, culture change and structural analysis

Women and children in development
Health and Sanitation
Communication for development
Theories of development

Social Research methodology and PRA

Statistics
Financial Accounting
Urban Field exposure
Rural Field exposure, PRA

Semester - II
Economics for Rural manager
Principles and Practices of management

Organizational development
Development Administration, Panchayati Raj and its Prog.
Agrarian relations, Laws and Peasant struggles
Ecology, Forestry and Wasteland development
Management of Land and Water Resources
Non Formal education
Computer Application & RdIS
Urban Field exposure
Rural Field exposure, PRA

Semester - III
Project management-I
Agriculture I- crop Production
Agriculture II- Animal Production
Training for development
Behavioural Science
Entrepreneurship Development and Appropriate Technology
Common Property Resource Management

Electives
Entrepreneurship development
Forestry and Waste Land development
Agri. Business management
Gender in development
Management of Rural Marketing
Summer Placement
Rural Field exposure, PRA

Semester - IV
Project management II
Social Justice and Social Action
Farm management
Management of NGOs and Human Resource development
Organisational Behaviour
Marketing management
Micro Finance, Small Group Management and cooperatives

Electives (same papers)
Dissertation
Study Tour
Rural exposure, PRA