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@article{191884,
        author = {Snehal Rakesh Kamble},
        title = {FROM MARGINALISED TO MAINSTREAM- SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACH IN BRIDGING RURAL-URBAN INCOME GAP”},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {8089-8099},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191884},
        abstract = {— India has undergone a tremendous economic development in last 75 years and it has faced a dramatic economic growth in last 20 years, but at the same time it has stark economic contrast, despite its significant and notable progress in many sectors, several of its parts especially rural areas, which in comparison of urban areas faces more economic hurdle because of lack of industrial development, educational and health facilities, poor infrastructure and prevalent socio-economic issues. Earlier we certainly had inequality of many different kinds by caste, class, location and so on but now we’ve had an extreme accentuation of these. Income inequality is also a prominent and utmost important factor that adversely leads to economic disparity and social stratification between rural and urban areas. According to Oxfam Report of 2021 it takes 941 years for a minimum wage worker to earn what a top executive at Indian leading garment company earns in one year, this concentration of wealth is also a reason for widening this gap. The prominent reasons for rural-urban income gap are political instability, high concentration of land ownership, distortionary public policies, systematic discrimination, high dependency ratio, market imperfections, stagnant wages, migration in search of better economic opportunities and difference of infrastructure are the key factors for creating income disparity/wealth gap between rural and urban areas. Most of the people in rural area are significantly dependent on seasonal agricultural product unlike urban areas which created a platform for manufacturing, services like healthcare and IT and opportunities in the informal sector. 
The research primarily attempted to address the rural-urban income gap through the lens of social justice and recommend solutions such as equal access of resources, equity over equality to make policies for targeted population to overcome historical disparities, especially for Dalits, Adivasis and traditional dwellers who are still marginalized and have lack of political voice, also the representation of rural people in policymaking, additional rural employment programs shall be designed to equate with urban sectors so that they are not treated as lower-class then urban employment, to foster more standard educational and health facilities because education is key to retrench the casteism, classism and gender inequalities which leads to marginalization of certain group of people and compound rural disadvantage, stronger infrastructure to accompany the economically, socially, and geographically marginalized communities into the mainstream through equal access of resources, opportunities and education.},
        keywords = {Income inequality, social justice, marginalized, economic disparity, social},
        month = {January},
        }