c. Write a note on Rural University
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rural development in the process improving the economic well-being of people living in rural areas of the relativity isolated and spasley population area .....
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Merriam Webster dictionary has defined university as one made up of an undergraduate division
which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional
schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates (university).Interestingly, the concept of
university is considered urban. So, the question is: is there any rural concept of university or is there any rural
university?
Well, the concept of rural university is difficult to define.The website of Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India fails to elaborate on the concept of rural university.One
possible explanation could be the university operating in the rural area. Another explanation could be the
university educating rural people to promote sustainable development. Under the circumstances of rapid
urbanization, the first explanation would not hold true for a longer period of time because the region which is
considered a rural area today may not remain so even after five years. The second explanation has different
implication in the sense that the rural people who get education may/ may not prefer to contribute to promote
sustainable development. Moreover, the moment the rural crowd migrates to the urban area, they no longer
remain rural people. In other words, the very concept of rural university is a dubious one.
So the question is: why are we discussing about rural university and what is the need of rural university? Now,
for a pretty good time the word rural invited association with agriculture. However, with modernization,
industrialization and telecommunication revolution, agriculture fast lost its sheen as a profession.Farmers have a
sense of disenchantment and mistrust about the future of their profession.The rural folk in general and the
farmers in particular no longer want their children to join the profession of farming as they are induced to
migrate to cities due to social factors such as attraction of cities, better standard of living, better educational
facilities, need for status and so on. Again the farmers‟ anxiety is not misplaced as reported in the newspaper
‘The Hindu’