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Indian agriculture has also come under significant adjustment pressure from market liberalization and globalization, resulting in rural households to look at alternative means for supplementing their livelihoods. To provide the rural people with better prospects for socio-economic development and transformation increased participation of people in the rural development programs. Rural development over the years has emerged as “a strategy designed to improve the economic and social life of a specific group of people – the rural poor. It involves extending the benefits of development to the poorest among those who seek a livelihood in the natural areas.