Road Market refers to the infrastructure created to buy and sell the products in rural areas and also to purchase the products and farm inputs produced in other regions.

i) The RRB's confine their lending's only to the weaker sections of the people.
ii) Their lending rates are at par with the prevailing rate of co-operative societies.
iii) By providing credit and other facilities particularly to the small, marginal farmers agricultural laboures, artisans and smalI entrepreneurs.

The problem of housing can be tackled by the development of low cost technology in house construction, provision of adequate housing finance and provision of land sites to landless workers in rural areas.

Employment occurs only n a particular season supported by natural circumstances and the remaining period of a year the rural people are unemployed (or) partially employed. In seasons like ploughing, sowing, weeding and harvesting there is scarcity of labour and in the rest of the year there is unemployment

Poverty line is a hypothetical line based on Income (or) Consumption levels that divides the population as people below poverty line and above poverty line. Persons consuming less than 2,400 calories per day in rural areas are treated as they are under rural poverty.

Rural areas are facing the problems relating to
i) People
ii) Agriculture
iii) Infrastructure
iv) Ecoomy
v) Society and culture

Number of persons living per sq. km or per sq. mile

Most small scale industries are located near urban centres. They produce goods for local as well as foreign makets.

Rural Industries embrace all industries which are run by rural people in rural areas. The industries are based primarily on the utilization of locally available raw materials skills and small amount of capital.

Enterprises having not exceeding Rs. 25 Lakhs investment in plant and machinery and service sector industries having not exceeding Rs. 10 Lakhs investment in equipment.

(i) Village industries are traditional in nature and depend on local raw material.
(ii) Examples of village industries are gur and khandsari, cane and bamboo basket, shoe making,. pottery and leather tanning.

Cottage industry are carried out by artisans in their own homes, these industries are traditional, with no or little power.

(i) It is difficult to identify who are underemployed.
(ii) Many are employed below their productive capacity.
(iii) Even if they are withdrawn from work, the output will not diminish.
(iv) Disguised unemployment is also called concealed unemployment.

(i) Open unemployment is found among agricultural labourers, rural artisans and literate persons.
(ii) Here the unemployed people are identified as they remain without work.

Rural poverty refers to the existence of poverty in rural areas.