Rural Infrastructure
Development Activities
The types
of Rural Infrastructure Development Activities carried out by LGED under
the above projects/programmes comprise the following:
Construction of Feeder road Type-B
Construction of Bridges
and Culverts on Feeder road Type-B and Rural roads
Development of Growth Centres , Rural markets
and Ghats
Construction of Small Scale water resource scheme
Re-excavation of Khals and other
Ponds
Tree plantation on slopes of feeder
road Type-B,Rural Roads And Embankment
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Developmental
Impact of Rural Infrastructure
Various
study reports have indicated positive developmental impacts of rural infrastructure.The
study Report of the international Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
and Bangladesh Institue of develpoment studies (BIDS) on Developmental
Impact of Rural Infrastructure in Bangladesh, October, 1990 contains the
following major findings:
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Development
of rural infrastructure has far-reaching implications for the alleviation
of poverty by indirectly generating income .
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Infrastructure
affects agricultural production indirectly through prices,diffusion of
technology and the use of inputs.
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Fertilizer
are 14 percent lower,labour cost 12 percent higher,105 percent more farmland
is irrigated, 71 percent more is sown with high yielding varieties(HYVs)
and use of fertilizer is 92 percent higher in villages having access to
better infrastructure facitilies.
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Infrastructure
development is estimated to have increased agricultural production in developed
areas by as much as 32 percent.
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Infrastructure
endowment causes household income to rise by 33 percent, income from agriculture
increases by about 24 percent, that from livestock and fisheries by about
78 percent, that from wages almost doubles and income from business and
industries rises by 17 percent.
Infrastructure
development has positive effect on health.
The report
of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies(BIDS) on Rural Poverty
Update,published in 1993 indicates the following on infrastructure and
its impact on Rural Labour Market:
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Infrastructure
development increases the demand for labour via its positive impact on
agriculture,industry,services;
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Villages
with developed infrastructure are also villages with higher level of agricultural
modernization;
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With the
development of infrastructure, total labour supply in self employment in
the non-farm sector(particularly in trade and business) increases by about
20 percent compared to villages with underdeveloped infrastructure.
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Total earning
as well as employment of poor households were found substantially higher
in Infrastructurally developed villages.
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Wage employment
per household in the occasional deficit group is higher by about 36 percent
in villages with developed infrastructure compared with underdeveloped
villages.
Last
Updated: December 1,1999
By
MIS Cell
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