Essay On Rural Development In Bangladesh

Rural Development

Introduction: the ‘rural’ development means the improvement of the villages. Bangladesh is small country of 8,000 villages. More than 80% of our people live in villages. This fact reminds us of the importance of villages in our agriculture-based economy. Proverb says,

“God made the country and man made the city.”

Condition in the past: the condition of the villages was not the condition of the villages was not so deplorable in the remote past. Then the villagers were prosperous. We have come to learn from the description of a Chinese visitor to Bangladesh that in Bangladesh the barns were full of paddy; the cow-sheds were full of cattle; the ponds were full of fishes and the houses were full of peace and happiness. Most of

We notice that the importance of villages is getting less and less day by day with the eve-increasing popularity of modern science and technology. The age of the misery for these villages began with the advent of the British. They began to set up mills and factories in the places which soon turned into towns. Soon the people from the villagers began to flock these towns with hope of earning more money. The amentias of town life also attracted the rural rich people to leave villagers for towns. The result was that the villages fell into ruins. The village economy got shattered. Today the towns and cities are getting more and more developed with the advancement of civilization. On the contrary, the villages are getting more and more declined day by day. It needs no telling that the declining of the village economy is posing a great threat to the overall development of the country. Actually, the thinking of developing cities only by neglecting the villages would be an act of just setting the horses before the carriage. This why we badly feel that the development of the villages side by side with the development of the cities is the crying need of the