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Rural transformation has a wide connotation involving the indicators ranging from measuring the degree of social amenities i.e. health, medical, education, transport, communication, banking and other infrastructure facilities etc. The occupational or class mobility due to the impact of expanding facilities has been causing certain changes in demographic composition and its characteristics such as population growth, distribution, changing proportion of rural urban population, age & sex composition along with educational facilities due to the impact of urban growth as well as modernization and have emerged as reflective indicators of rural transformation. The idea is to initiate the process of rural transformation at the micro level and to be gradually extended. The process of transformation may be described as a step higher than development, which in turn, is a step above the growth. Growth is purely quantitative while development reflects qualitative and quantitative upliftment of the rural areas and that of the rural people. Rural transformation aims to convert the villages more attractive than urban areas without compromising their virginity.

Transformation of rural environment: A Geographical Appraisal