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UPSC Toppers Copies CSE Civilservices Strategy

03 Dec 2023 10:12

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Question -

Globalization and the rural society in India .

Answer -

🔸India is mainly an agrarian economy and about 70%of its population resides in rural areas and villages which contribute around 15% of GDP through its agriculture and allied sector.

🔸 So any integrationof Indian economy will have wider ramifications for both rural areas and its social, political and economic fabric. Rural life in India was characte -rized by self sufficient geographical unit following traditional way of life before the advent of globalization.

🔸Since the economic reforms of 1991 which led to liberalization, privatization and globalization, there have been implications on rural society which are both pathological and normal.

🔸It helped in mainstreaming rural society with the urban India and global world to an extent, helped in creating a more informed society and brought paradigm shift in education, devolution of power and technological reach.

🔸On the other hand, disproportionate economic prosperity in various parts induced pathological stains in the form of widespread migration, coerced land acquisitions, suicides of farmers, ever squeezing agricultural land leading to a disjunction between little tradition and great tradition of India.

🔸After globalization, Indian economy in general and rural areas in particular was opened up for quickdevelopment, increased income and standard of living. It was contented that the fruits of globalization will automatically trickle down to rural areas leading to better developments indicators.

🔸However in the long run, it led to a rural-urban divide of India. Most of the MNCs concentrated on leveraging the urban resources as more skilled
manpower was available there. This led to growth in certain pockets leading to backwardness in most areas.

🔸 Further it eroded the demographic base of rural society as more and more people migrated towards towns and cities for better life and income. Further globalization is based upon the principle of laissez faire which led to
indiscriminate exploitation of resources for generation of wealth.

🔸This led to overuse of village land
rendering them barren through mining. It also led to eviction of peasants from their land. Other factors like introduction of GMO crops in certain pockets of Maharashtra, cheap import of agricultural products from other countries etc took the toll over rural society. All these factors directly and indirectly led to suicides by farmers. Globalisation has also impacted the tribal society and its cultural identity in a big way. Thetrespassing of multi-national companies in these areas not only led to dissolution of most of tribal communities but also threatened their cultural identities, languages which a constitutional right.

🔸 In addition to that the deforestation, absence of rehabilitation has led the death of their traditional earning and livelihood. However on the positive note, it generated a lot of avenues for rural India. Globalisation led to breakdown of castes barrier to a large extent in the rural society. It led to change in the village social structure. It also rapidly transformed village society from subsistence based to market based. The competition without frontiers provided the choice to farmers to sell their produce anywhere at competitive prices .