Corporate social responsibility initiatives for rural India, are of immense significance and contemporary relevance. This paper attempts to investigate CSR practices specifically in the context of rural development. Near about 70% of the total population of India reside in rural areas and depend on agriculture. Currently rural India is facing various issues like agriculture, infrastructural development, socio-economic conditions etc. it is required to improve infrastructural facilities like health, education, public utility services and informative networks. It is the right time to take imitative by corporates to make social investment in rural India in the form of corporate social responsibility.

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Keywords: CSR, Rural Development, Infrastructural Facility.