ROLE OF DIFFERENT NGOS FOR SOCIO ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY OF RAMNATHPUR UNION AT BADARGANJ UPAZILA, RANGPUR, BANGLADESH

Non-government Organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh have virtually grown into a movement through the last two decades of the independent existence of the country. NGOs have been attaining an increasingly important role in the nation's development process. But the activities and initiatives carried out by the nongovernmental organizations have been found as both positive and negative in regard to building a better and sustainably developed Bangladesh. Therefore, it is required to evaluate the effectiveness of theactivities initiatives carried out by NGOs. From this realization, this project is conducted at Ramnathpur union under Badarganj Upazila at Rangpur in Bangladesh. The project is conducted to find out the existing condition of different NGOs and to identify their roles in socio-economic and infrastructural development in the rural areas. Questionnaire survey, direct interview survey and focus group discussion (FGD) are the main methodological approaches in conducting the project. The collected data has been analyzed through statistical packages like SPSS21.0 and MS word 2010. After the analysis of collected data, it is revealed that for the NGOs effort socio- economic and infrastructural development of rural poor situation is improving gradually but not dramatically. NGOs should emphasis on socio-economic development as well as infrastructural development of rural poor equally. NGOs should take coordinated initiative to overcome the shortcomings find out through this project.