About the Book: Survey of Rural India (Set of 27 Vols)
Integrated development of rural India is one of the challengingtasks before the
Government of India. Community Development Blockis a rural area earmarked for
administration and development. It isadministered by a Block Development
Officer. The block coversseveral gram panchayats, local administrative units at
the villagelevel. There are 6311 Community Development Blocks and 240,561
GramPanchayats. As per census report, about 72.2 per cent of thepopulation lives
in 638,588 villages. India has travelled aconsiderable distance on the road to
development since independenceand has made significant progress in various
sectors. However, newchallenging demands have emerged calling for more
integrated ruralinformation. Acute