SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS RURAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN CHIDAMBARAM TALUK, CUDDALORE DISTRICT

Abstract

Modernization is a composite concept. It is also an ideological concept. The Models of Modernization Co-vary with the choice of ideologists. The composite nature of this concept renders it pervasive in the vocabulary of social sciences and evokes its kinship with concepts like "development" "growth", "evolution" and "progress". Its ideological mooring, however, suffuses it with value loads that render social scientists and the public equally ambivalent to its notion as modernization becomes a candidate for rejection or approval, prejudice or pride. Ideology also serves as a canopy under which the similarities and differences of contradistinction models of modernization can be examined and their relevance analyzed. The structural and existential issues in the modernization of societies, the changes in their material and technological conditions, Models of production distribution of wealth and power and relative deprivation of classes and sections of people in a society all these processes tend to have a fit on a calculus of meaning that is ideological. The present study aims to find out the sustainable rural development towards rural poverty alleviation in Chidambaram taluk, Cuddalore district. A samples of 100 respondents selected randomly were studied. Primary data were collected by using a structured interview scheduled. All the respondents were asked the some questions in the same fashion and they were informed the purpose of study. Cross tabulation and Percentage analysis were applied to test the hypotheses. The findings and observations are the result and outcome of the interpretations made during the study of analysis.