Rural areas are facing number of problems relating to,

1. People

2. Agriculture 

3. Infrastructure 

4. Economy 

5. Society and Culture 

6. Leadership and 

7. Administration.

(I) People Related Problems: The problems related to individuals and their standard of living consist of illiteracy, lack of technical know how, low level of confidence, dependence on sentiments and beliefs etc.

(II) Agriculture Related Problems: The problems related to agriculture include as follows,

• Lack of expected awareness, knowledge, skill and attitude.
• Unavailability of inputs.
• Poor marketing facility.

(III) Infrastructural Related problems: Poor infrastructure facilities like, water, electricity, transport, educational institutions, communication, health, employment, storage facility, banking and insurance are found in rural areas.

(IV) Economics related problems: The economic problems related to rural areas are,

• Inability to adopt high cost technology
• High cost of inputs
• Under privileged rural industries.
• Low income
• Indebtedness
• Existence of inequality in land holdings and assets

(V) Leadership Related Problems: The Specific leadership related problems found in rural areas are:

• Leadership among the hands of inactive and incompetent people
• Self – interest of leaders
• Biased political will
• Less bargaining power
• Negation skills and dominance of political leaders

Administrative Problems: The rural administrative problems are,

• Political interference
• Lack of motivation and interes
• Low wages in villages
• Improper utilization of budget
• Absence of monitoring
• Implementation of rural development programme.