• Eradicating poverty in rural areas.

• Empower grass root level people’s organizations

• Mobilize self-help groups of poor women

• Co-ordinating voluntary efforts in poverty eradication

• Ameliorate deterioration of natural resources and enable common property resource management by stakeholders.

• Developing skills in rural communities to handle self-employment programmes and micro-enterprises.

• Enabling technology to be accessible to rural areas

• Narrowing down gap between urban-rural Sectors and achieve a urban-rural continue

The District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) help the Rural Development Department in implementation, monitoring and evaluation of various Rural Development Programmes at district level. These DRDAs are registered societies under the Registration of Societies Act.