ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how rural empowerment can be attained through effective knowledge transaction among urban and rural communities. It is implicit combined with explicit knowledge that contributes in enhancing the knowledge pool of rural marginalized community. While our definition of empowerment encompasses simultaneous cultivation of social capital, agency and opportunity structure of rural target groups, equipping the marginalized population with knowledge becomes crucial in this framework to come up with strategies for self-development and self-sustenance of rural development. It is by making the rural population knowledge capable that we wish to bring rural empowerment from within; which will not only make the target group knowledge literate but also inculcate evaluative capacities to process acquired knowledge for practical benefits.
