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India lives in her villages’---- this axiom is still true today despite the service sector budding in the urban and semi urban areas. Majority of the population still lives in rural India and the large chunk of population in urban areas still live through the learning of a village life. India may be one of the fastest growing economies of the world today. But there is a large area of darkness in the rural hinterland. About 720 million people live in 6 lakh villages in rural India. Of the total workforce, 60% of workers are engaged in agriculture. The contribution of agriculture to GDP is merely 20%. About 19 crore people living in rural India are below the poverty line.There also exists a considerable discrepancy in the pace of development between rural and urban areas. For the strength of the country there is a necessity to develop the villages. In India one of the prominent divides has been that between urban and rural areas.