scholarly journals ICT enabled Technologies issues in implementation (especially in perspective of Uttrakhand Rural Areas)

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Abhay Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Survey Report ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Communication And Technology

Information Communication & Technology makes the entire world a Global Village. The high speed connectivity, communication and technology are turn out to be a magic wand for the human progress and prosperity. But it looks so that this progress is confined with the virtual villages like metros and cities. The semi urban and villages looks far behind from the actuality i.e. implementation of ICT. This Paper is not a critic on the Government efforts. It is merely a survey report to put a thought on the efforts inadequacy, unable to reach up to grass root level. The current study will provide a microscopic view of the ground reality of villages especially in Hardwar district and show reasons why implementation of ICT is not effective over there. The probable solution of implementation of ICT is also worked out in the end.

Effect of Urea-molasses Multinutrient Block Supplementation on Productive and Reproductive Performance of Rural Buffalo Farms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Nimbalkar ◽  
H.K. Verma ◽  
Jaswinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Bubalus Bubalis ◽  
Reproductive Parameters ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Milk Yield ◽  
Productivity Enhancement

Background: Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) have an immense importance in rural economy by virtue of their high production potential as triple purpose animal. Application of scientific technologies can further lead to significant productivity enhancement in buffaloes. Hence, the study was aimed to investigate adoption and effect of urea-molasses multinutrient block (UMMB) supplementation on buffalo productivity in rural areas of Punjab, India. Methods: An expost-facto research design was employed to collect data from selected buffalo farmers (N-501) through personal interview by using pretested research instrument. Based on the response, the buffalo farms were categorized as technology adopter farms (TAF) and non-adopter farms (TNAF). The effect of UMMB supplementation on productivity was evaluated by considering various productive and reproductive parameters of buffaloes. Both parametric and non-parametric statistical tests were employed to analyse the data by using SPSS software. Result: The results indicated that the buffalo farms (36.93%; 185/501) following an additional supplementation with UMMB had significantly (p less than 0.05) higher average daily milk yield per animal and lowered values of all reproductive parameters. This has proved the viability of UMMB technology at buffalo farms in study area. The study revealed that the technology plays valuable role in buffalo productivity enhancement, hence should be recommended to the government and propagated through vigorous activities at grass-root level to improve adoption.

scholarly journals Maiden Partisan Rural Local Government Elections: Bangladesh Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mashiur Rahman ◽  
Salma Nasrin
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time ◽  
Election Commission

A paradigm shift in the political system has been taken in Bangladesh on 12 October, 2015 with the final approval by the Cabinet to hold local polls on partisan basis. The long historical practice of non-partisan local polls has been shifted to first ever partisan poll that brought major challenges for the existing confrontational political parties of Bangladesh. Ruling Bangladesh Awami League considered demonstrating its popularity at grass-root level and controlled all political institution through this election while Bangladesh Nationalist Party had opposed these partisan local government elections as a political trick with an ill motive by the government. For the first time in Independent Bangladesh, 9th Union Parishad[1](UP) election hold on partisan basis at six phases across the country from March to June 2016. The articles tried to explore the experiences of this maiden partisan UP polls and what are the immediate consequences on the local governance as well as electoral system through reviewing seceondary materials specially the Daily Newspapers. Unfortunately massive violence, record deaths and uncontested elected Chairman, election fraughts & irregularities, reluctant role of Election Commission, strong dominant of ruling party over electoral system were common phenomenon in this maiden partisan election.[1] Lowest tier of rural local government in Bangladesh.

Information, Education and Communication Needs in Family Planning: The Case of Pakistan

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
George P. Cernada ◽  
A. K. Ubaidur Rob
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
National Family Planning ◽  
The Government ◽  
Communication Needs

In spite of three decades of national family planning programmes, Pakistan's contraceptive prevalence rate was only 12 percent in 1991. Furthermore, the government family planning service delivery systems, primarily the family welfare center (FWC), cover less than 10 percent of the people in rural areas. Although there are cultural and religious constraints to social change, it can be argued effectively from recent surveys that there is a considerable need for family planning that has yet to be met. Certain barriers to, and options for, meeting this need are reviewed, particularly in terms of strengthening information, communication and education (TEC) at the community level.

scholarly journals Combating non-communicable diseases in rural Lucknow: Are the skills and knowledge of female health workers adequate?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 3480
Author(s):  
Arunima Saini ◽  
Monika Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Health Workers ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
Essential Knowledge

Background: India is facing the surging trend of non-communicable diseases (NCD). Forecasting the burden for NCDs, the Government of India (GOI) initiated a program in 2010 across the country, i.e., National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Stroke. The GOI has envisaged the female health workers (FHW) for the last mile delivery of health services under the programme. Available literature shows that FHWs lack essential knowledge regarding chronic diseases. This study attempts to fill these gaps by studying knowledge and skills regarding NCDs among FHWs in rural Lucknow. Objectives were to explore the knowledge about NCDs among ASHAs and ANMs in rural Lucknow and to assess of skills related to NCD screening among ANMs in rural Lucknow.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted among FHWs of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh from June 2019 to August 2019.Results: Among the FHWs, knowledge about NCDs was found to be higher for those with the age more than 40 years, with the education of higher secondary and above and also amongst those who had received previous training for NCDs.Conclusions: Majority of the respondents were found to have poor knowledge regarding NCDs. Additionally, older age, training and higher education are found to be associated with good knowledge; there is a need of training of grass root level workers for them to correctly identify the symptoms and risk factors of various NCDs.

scholarly journals Geospatial Evaluation of Sustainable Development: Analysing a Sample of a Successful Social Safety Net

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Giribabu Dandabathula ◽  
Sudhakar Ch. Reddy ◽  
Chandrika Mohapatra ◽  
Peddineni V.V Prasada Rao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Poverty Elimination ◽  
The Government

Sustainable Development (SD) not only ensures addressing the root cause of poverty but also helps in achieving the wellness of society. Protecting the natural resources for current and future generations is the main goal of the SD process. In recent times, developing countries have initiated social safety nets (SSNs) for poverty elimination and to achieve the SD goals through public works. The Government of India has initiated numerous development projects aimed to achieve SD and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is one of them. The research objective of this article is to harness the power of geospatial technology for evaluating the public works under MGNREGA at a district level. The proposed research method utilizes the power of remote sensing data with a very high spatial and temporal resolution to monitor the development activities at the grass root level. Satellite based land-use maps, indices, and publicly available web based geospatial information systems have been used in this investigation to assess the changes that have occurred due to the community-level planned activities. The findings from this research confirm that MGNREGA has the potential to accrue multiple dividends at all the three pillars of SD, i.e., economic development, social development, and environmental protection. It was proved from this research that public works under MGNREGA besides providing the wage based employment to the beneficiaries resulted in improved water conservation and harvesting facilities in the study area and in return, these facilities acted as a catalyst for improved agricultural productivity.

scholarly journals Digital Divide and Poverty Eradication in the Rural Region of Northern Peninsular Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Sharifah Rohayah Dawood
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Strategic Implementation ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

 One of the ways to eliminate poverty is through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that is often promoted as central to reviving and sustaining regional communities. In the context of Malaysia, however, the level of communication in urban and rural areas has seen a gap in terms of access to ICTs. Though various initiatives are taken to close the digital gaps, more efforts are needed. This paper intends to explore the extent to which ICTs in rural areas of northern Peninsular Malaysia are able to raise the socio-economic development of the communities. Using questionnaires and in-depth interviews, emphasis is given to analyze the role of ICTs in poverty reduction processes upholding regional developments. It has been observed that solving common causes for the communities’ access and socio-economic growth needs strategic implementation of policies at the central core and pragmatic implementation of actions at the grass root level.

Challenges in Implementation of Digital Culture Environment among Rural Community in Malaysia: An Overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Nurul Syfa’ Mohd Tokiran ◽  
Norhayati Hussin ◽  
Mohd Sazili Shahibi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Literature Information ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Culture Environment ◽  
The Government ◽  
Communication And Technology ◽  
Survey Approach

The purpose of the article is to assess the current challenges in the implementation of the Digital Culture Environment among the rural community in Malaysia. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the online environment where a drastic usage of digital tools has been observed among Malaysian. The digital culture is defined as the culture shaped by the emergence of digital technologies and their usage in the community. The literature survey approach has been applied as the methodology of study to explore the current challenges in the implementation of the Digital Culture Environment among the rural community in Malaysia. Several challenges have been identified, including the rural sustainable issues, digital divides, demographic factors, Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) factor, individual, as well as behavior factor. According to the literature review conducted, these challenges have been revealed to significantly hurdle the government’s movement in implementing the digital culture within the rural community. To overcome these challenges, a strong and effective supporting model should be formulated to assist the government in building and establish a digital culture environment in Malaysia, particularly among the rural community. Hence, a further in-depth study is required to acquire comprehensive literature information to address this issue.

scholarly journals THE RISE OF NATIONAL PLUS SCHOOL IN INDONESIA – EDUCATION FOR PARENTS AND GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Indra Rinaldi ◽  
Yam Saroh
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Education System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
National Education ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Education

PENINGKATAN SEKOLAH NASIONAL PLUS DI INDONESIA – PENDIDIKAN UNTUK ORANG TUA DAN PEMERINTAH AbstractThis paper explores a social movement that has happened in Indonesia in the field of education. It also explores its effect to ‘educate’ the government as well as most parents in the country about the education quality in Indonesia. The exploration focuses on how this new concept of education which is referred as National Plus school was introduced to society that has encouraged many people to develop the schools with the same (national plus) concept. It also focuses on the parents who have learnt more about the new education system then participate in it by sending their children to such the schools. Not only in the grass root level, has it also focused onthe factors of the government who was indirectly forced to respond this phenomenon by developing international-leveled school. This movement has happened nationally within the last 10 years and has changed the national curriculum as well as educational system, including the recognition of special needs students among the government schools. This movement has changed the old conventional style of education that was commonly found in Indonesian national schools.Keywords: adult learning, National Plus, national education, movementAbstrakArtikel ini membahas tentang sebuah gerakan sosial yang terjadi di Indonesia di bidang pendidikan. Artikel ini juga menggali pengaruh gerakan social terhadap 'mendidik' pemerintah serta orang tua di negeri ini tentang kualitas pendidikan di Indonesia. Eksplorasi berfokus pada konsep pendidikan baru yang disebut dengan istilah “Sekolah Nasional Plus” yang diperkenalkan kepada masyarakat yang telah mendorong banyak orang untuk mengembangkan sekolah dengan konsep yang sama (nasional plus). Artikel ini juga berfokus pada orang tua yang telah belajar lebih banyak tentang sistem pendidikan baru yang kemudian melibatkan mereka berpartisipasi di dalamnya dengan mengirimkan anak-anak mereka kesekolah-sekolah tersebut. Tidak hanya di tingkat dasar, tetapi juga difokuskan pada faktor-faktor pemerintah yang secara tidak langsung dipaksa untuk menanggapi fenomena ini dengan mengembangkan sekolah berstandar internasional. Gerakan ini terjadi secara nasional dalam jangka waktu 10 tahun dan telah mengubah kurikulum nasional serta sistem pendidikan nasional, termasuk pengakuan dari siswa berkebutuhan khusus di antara sekolah-sekolah pemerintah. Gerakan ini telah mengubah gaya konvensional pendidikan yang umum ditemukan di sekolah-sekolah nasional di Indonesia.Kata kunci: pembelajaran orang dewasa, National Plus, pendidikan nasional, gerakan

scholarly journals An Evaluation Of Indicators Of Socio-Economic Deprivation: A Case Study Of The Slums Of Karachi, Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Kaneez Fatima Mamdani
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Housing Quality ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Economic Deprivation ◽  
Multiple Deprivation ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level

In Pakistan more than one third of its population continues to live below the poverty line (Economic Survey of Pakistan, 2013). Recent research has shown that poverty is wide spread in both urban and rural areas and it is not only rural phenomenon. Since the past few decades, Karachi has experienced an inflow of migrants from all parts of Pakistan in search of better opportunities. Karachi has about 650 katchi abadis (squatter settlements) which are home to 50% of city’s population (Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority 2006). The objective of this study is to measure and analyse the nature and level of socio-economic deprivation as well as to find out the different forms of socio-economic deprivation. It is an exploratory cross-sectional study. Primary data is collected from 497 households of seven katchi abadis of Karachi to study the problem. Statistical tools of analysis i.e. coefficients of variance are used to analyse the relationship between two variables and indices of multiple deprivation are constructed to compute the different domains and levels of deprivation. It is evident from the outcomes of the findings of domains of deprivation that the significant proportion of population of Katchi Abadis i.e. approximately 50% of the households suffers from multiple deprivation. The findings emphasize that all settlements have deprivation in all domains (education, economic, housing quality and housing services deprivation, health deprivation); however each settlement has different issues and concerns priority wise. Index of multiple deprivation show 49% of households living below poverty line (US$ 1.25) experience multiple deprivation. The findings also reveal that 60% of households highly to moderately deprived as regards to levels of deprivation while 40% has low deprivation level. In order to increase the standard of living on the grass-root level, “Living Wages” should be used as the standard to measure people’s socio-economic wellbeing instead “Poverty” to maintain a decent standard of living for families of different sizes. Policies should be designed to decrease the level of unemployment on a scale needed for long term poverty alleviation, by creating environment that is conducive to private economic activity at the grass root level.

scholarly journals ICT in Panchayati Raj Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 589-593
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Rural India ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
The Government ◽  
Panchayati Raj

In India, the notion of local self government is just as old as the civilisation. In today’s time, PRIs, i.e. Panchayati Raj Institutions are local governmental bodies of grass-root governance in rural India and forms the third layer of the federalism in India. These institutions of grass-root government are playing an essential role in improving the living standard of rural masses in India. In the current tech savvy scenario, the concept of e- governance and usage of Information and Communications technology (ICT) in offering services to the community have gained momentum. In order to move from governance to good governance with the help of ICT, the Government of India has initiated many projects such as National e-Governance Plan, e- Kranti, Bharat Net etc. This paper depicts the use of ICT by Panchayati Raj Institutions in providing effective public service delivery to the rural masses. Further, this paper also throws some light on various programs and applications which are designed by national and state governments to strengthening the position of PRI’s in development of rural areas

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