Critical Review On Past Literature Of Rural Development Programs In Pakistan

Rural development play key role in the development of a country and without rural development a country development is impossible because rural development highly co related with other sector of the country economic development. When Pakistan came into being on the map of the world on 14 August 1947. From that time rural development programs were started for the development of rural area to improve quality life in rural area of Pakistan. Seeing to its importance and scope the present study was conducted in November 2017. The major objectives of the study was to critically review the past literature of the rural development programs to investigate the situation to what extent they found the success in these programs in Pakistan. Due to time and lack of finance purposively total 14 programs were selected for the study. Published data were used and reviewed each program 15 to 20 times and analyzed the situation in Pakistan. The critical review shows that all programs found success in the initial stages while latter on failed due to lack of fund lack of coordination among the building department political interference international threats terrorism lack of quality administration set up ethnicity lack of technical labor in the rural area lack of rural community involvement high poverty lack of proper required education according to situation staff absentee from the field duty financial dependency on other and lack of fund availability in time etc. On the basis of study finding the following recommendations were suggested for its future solution. Such as it is advised by Pakistani community to select educated people in the assemblies by democracy through these assemblies better organization and institution should be developed Honest staff should be selected for the organization to run the system very well Decision should be taken on national basis in the Assemblies Program continuity till fruit bearing Honest staff selection in the administration set up practical education provision to the community in rural area Program and project preparation by trained expert committee for reduction of poverty etc.