Account of the experimental programme of rural development initiated and implemented by thr academy for rural development at comilla in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) - gives the historical background and covers the rural cooperative system, local level public administration, irrigation, rural area electrification, the changing social status of women, birth control, rural public works programmes, education, research, etc. Bibliography and statistical tables. Biography khan, akhter hameed.

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