Rural India and its Transformations
Development organisations play a significant role in facilitating the rural-urban connect. We find a small but increasing number of young management graduates and other professionals entering the sector as management trainees in order to contribute through professional skills and to learn about rural realities.
This one-week intensive course is for management trainees of development organisations and helps individuals broaden their sensitivity and understanding of rural communities, lives and livelihoods. We help you understand this through the ived experiences of people in rural India.
We hope to help develop a sensitive, empathetic and collaborative attitude among our participants. We will help you grow familiar with the real dynamics of rural societies as well as the social and political structures of these societies. This will help build an informed, sensitive and thoughtful outlook on working with rural communities.
The course also assists in making sense of different approaches used for social interventions by state and non-state actors.
- You will learn that there are multiple lenses for understanding rural India.
- You will understand broad patterns of changes and transformations occuring in contemporary rural India.
- You will gain familiarity with state’s overarching policy interventions in rural India.
- You will engage with various non-state emerging approaches for interventions, especially non-market approaches and their underlying values.
Course Faculty
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Richa Govil
Richa Govil is the Director of the School of Development at the University.Richa has worked for about 20 years in roles spanning research, business strategy, school education, financial inclusion, agriculture interventions, teaching and training.
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Annapurna Neti
Annapurna has been working in the areas of SME financing, Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Social Performance Management for 10 years. She has extensive field experience in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. She has worked with Small Industries Development Bank of India and has been a consultant to multiple organizations in the development sector.