(a) Illiteracy rates Blacks, 43 per cent in rural areas and 23.2 per cent in urban areas Whites, 20 per cent in rural areas and 7.3 per cent in urban areas

53. The out migration of youth from the countryside is creating an age imbalance in rural areas.

Programmes have been set up to develop the rural economy and to integrate employment opportunities in rural areas.

WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS

ARTICLE 14 Women in rural areas

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

Employment of women in rural areas

Draft resolution III Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Social workers were also regularly denied access to villages and rural areas.

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

Unemployment in rural areas

This is more so the case in rural areas.

Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Energy Services for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas

The fall was higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

General education schools in rural areas

The rural areas have been losing population.

In accordance with the provisions of the Sustainable Rural Development Act, food sovereignty and security are recognized as the fundamental basis of the National Agreement for Rural Areas.

235. The Committee is concerned with the disadvantaged situation of rural women who comprise the majority of the rural population, and the majority of workers in rural areas.

Many women legislators are from rural areas and therefore can have their concerns and priorities reflected in the legislative agenda.

The high rates of mortality are found in the agricultural areas.

Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Urban areas grew at the expense of rural areas.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

(b) The low level of social awareness among rural women and their high illiteracy rate, which is 42 per cent, as compared with 17 per cent among men in rural areas

There are differences between agricultural and urban zones in respect to the degree of educational achievement the ratio of the population without any level of education is lesser in the urban areas than in the agricultural ones.

Proximity of schools, especially in rural areas

TB centers in urban areas outnumber those in rural areas.

For those in urban areas the average was 3, while for those in rural areas it was 3.3.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

a The 1991 data are not census data, and some rural zones (rural coast, rural Sierra region in emergency zones and jungle) that would raise the illiteracy rate have been omitted from the test group.

56 129. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

58 146. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

60 138. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

62 136. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

Combining work and care in rural areas

Responding to sanitation needs in urban and rural areas

Nearly 68 of the population lives in rural areas.

All the sugar factories are located in rural India.

State Programme for Developing Rural Areas for 2004 2010.

(b) The gradual extension of the provision of school canteens in rural areas

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52 93 Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Improving access to safe drinking water in urban and rural areas