Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Rural Resources Management Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Rural Resources Management
Part of this reading list is printed in Devanagari, which the University's own PDF does not release as reliable text. Those entries are not set here; they are in the document above, as she printed them. The University sets this paper under Scheme III only, so your college may not run it.
Module 1: Rural Resources
- 1 Concept of resources
- 2 Types of resources
- 3 Renewable resources
- 4 Non-renewable resources
- 5 Need of Conservation of resources
Module 2: Land Resources
- 1 Formation of land
- 2 Features of land
- 3 Land use pattern
- 4 Conservation and quality of land
- 5 Measures to land development
Module 3: Water Resources
- 1 Concept of water resources
- 2 Distribution of water
- 3 Properties and importance Land
- 4 Scarcity of water and Measures on water Scarcity
- 5 Water conservation, Government schemes for water conservation
Module 4: Energy Resources
- 1 Concept of Energy Resources
- 2 Importance of Energy Resources
- 3 Scope of Energy Resources
- 4 Traditional energy sources and their limitations
- 5 Non-traditional energy sources
Text Books
- २ Mishra and Puri Indian Economy Himalaya Publishing House (1998)
- 3 Plans for Reclamation of waste lands Publications and Information’s Directorate New Delhi (1994)
- 4 Agarwal A.N.- Indian Economy, Problems of development and Planning
Reference Books
- 1 Rural Development : Principles, Policies and Management, Katar Singh, Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., 2009
- 2 Development of Land Resources – E-book on Activities Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India December, 2014. http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/downloads/PDFs/DoLR%20Activities.pdf