Rural development is a key factor of Indian Social and Economic growth, as 65.53% Indians live in rural areas out of which 48.00 per cent are woman. Hence data itself reveal that Rural woman development in India is how much important. There are several rural woman development programmes are running in India, like MGNREGA, NRLM, NRHM, BHAMASHAH (In Rajasthan), PMUY, SABLA, JSY, etc. Here with, we will discuss the knowledge of Rural Woman about MGNREGA, NRLM, NRHM. The study was based on the responses of the respondent collected from Bikaner District of Rajasthan. Four panchyatsamities namely Bikaner, Lunkarnsar, Nokha and shridungargrah was selected for the purpose. Again two gram panchyat from each selected panchyatsamiti were selected randomely i.e Sherea and husansar from Bikaner, Bawanwali and Kaloo from Lunkarnsar, Toliyasar and Seruna from Sri Dugargarh and Mukam and Markhana from Nokha. Two villages from each Gram Panchyat, further form each villages 25 respondent randomly selected for the research. A total number of 400 rural women beneficiaries were selected though random sampling techniques. A self-structured interview schedule was used to collect the information through personal interview to check the knowledge of the respondent about rural development programmes. The data was analysed by using frequency, percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation and Knowledge index as research tools. The finding of the data says that 76.00 per cent of respondent had medium knowledge level, while 21.25 per cent of respondent had low knowledge level and only 02.75 per cent respondent had high knowledge level about MGNREGA. The Mean of the data was 6.53, while Standard Deviation was 1.17. Again 89.25 per cent of respondent had medium knowledge level of NRLM scheme, while 10.50 per cent of respondent had low knowledge level of NRLM and only 00.25 per cent respondent had high knowledge level of NRLM scheme. The Mean of the data was 7.54, while Standard Deviation was 0.86. And 93.25 per cent of respondent had medium knowledge level of NRHM, while 03.50 per cent of respondent have high knowledge level of NRHM and only 03.25 per cent respondent had low knowledge level of NRHM. The Mean of the data was 6.39, while Standard Deviation was 1.12.

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