• Mr. Moulappa
• Dr. Yashaswini B

India is a country of villages and villages are the backbone of our country, our strength. Most of us have our roots in villages and when SC people improve themselves , only then will villages develop. We depend on the villages for our prime needs and one of those prime needs is food and this is majorly done in villages by our hard working farmers. They work hard throughout the year to feed the entire nation. But the question is, are they getting in return what they are worth for and what they deserve! The answer is No. This is very sad, but true! In rural areas , people of scheduled castes are very backward and still struggling for getting access to basic necessities like clean water, proper infrastructure like roads , schools and basic healthcare facilities . Their miserable condition is raising an alarm for all of us to act responsibly for them. Hence, it is absolutely essential for companies, industries or the corporate sector to focus on villages and endeavor to eradicate socio-economic problems such as poverty, hunger, health problems, education and unemployment by means of CSR initiatives to achieve the development of people belonging to schedule castes in rural areas.

CSR, Rural Development, schedule caste, Socio-economic problems

"ROLE OF CSR INITIATIVES IN THE RURAL AND SCHEDULE CASTE DEVELOPMENT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.366-370, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905G50.pdf

"ROLE OF CSR INITIATIVES IN THE RURAL AND SCHEDULE CASTE DEVELOPMENT ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp366-370, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905G50.pdf