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  2. Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas - Wikipedia

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    Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA) is a strategy for rural development in India. This concept was given by former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and discussed in his book Target 3 Billion which he co-authored with Srijan Pal Singh. The genesis of PURA can be traced to the work done by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in the early 1990s on Taluka energy self-sufficiency ...

  3. Bengaluru Rural district - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2011 census, the total population of the district was, 990,923 of which 21.65% were urban [6] with a population density of 309 persons per km 2. Bangalore Rural district has 22.5% of its population belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. Hinduism is the major religion of this district.

  4. Bengaluru Urban district - Wikipedia

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    Bengaluru Urban district is the most densely populated of the thirty-one districts that comprise the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the east and north, the Ramanagara district on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south.

  5. Local government in India - Wikipedia

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    The PRi structure did not develop the requisite democratic momentum and failed to cater to the needs of rural development.There are various reasons for such an outcome which include political and bureaucratic resistance at the state level to share power and resources with local-level institutions, the domination of local elites over the major share of the benefits of welfare schemes, lack of ...

  6. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana - Wikipedia

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    In rural areas the objective is to train 1 million people by 2017. Further, in urban areas, services like SHG promotion, training centres, vendors markets, and permanent shelters for homeless. The aim of the scheme is skill development of both rural and urban India as per requisite international standards.

  7. List of urban local bodies in Telangana - Wikipedia

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    The article lists all the urban local bodies, covering municipal corporations, municipalities and nagar panchayats in the Indian state of Telangana.The statistical data is based on the 2011 Census of India, conducted by The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

  8. Rural area - Wikipedia

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    Population age comparison between rural Pocahontas County, Iowa, and urban Johnson County, Iowa, illustrating the flight of young female adults (red) to urban centers in Iowa [31] Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.

  9. Ranga Reddy district - Wikipedia

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    The district was formed in 1978 when it was split from Hyderabad district. [7] [8] Originally named Hyderabad Rural district, it was renamed after Konda Venkata Ranga Reddy, a freedom fighter who fought for the independence of Telangana from the Nizams and who went on to become the deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. [9]