Rural institutions were employed by governments in the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs during the mid-1960s for bringing about planned agricultural change in their respective regions. In spite of heavy intervention in agricultural input supplies and distribution (including credit) small farmers in...

The benefits of rural development efforts have not trickled down to the rural masses due to centralised planning, limited participation of the rural people in the programmes of rural uplift and the feudal nature of the rural set up. Illiteracy and poor infrastructure of the rural areas along...