ABSTRACT
The Global Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index 2018 brought out by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Index mentions India making momentous progress in reducing multi-dimensional poverty. The large clustered villages with over half of India’s manufacturing and construction and over a quarter of the country’s services sector, though a part of the rural economy, are today closer to urban locations on development parameters, than the remote and tiny habitations in rural India where poverty persists on a much larger scale. The idea of the Mission was to develop the horizontal platform of a community/primary health centre in a manner such that primary health care needs, and communicable and non-communicable needs were better addressed. The challenges of quality public education, quality health services, and quality drinking water and water conservation, if addressed effectively on a community-led platform, will further improve the quality of lives in rural areas.
