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The problems of drought areas have been receiving increasing attention at the hands of the government. To this effect a number of special rural development programmes such as Drought prone Area programme, Command Area Development Programme etc. have been formulated and implemented. The role of co-operative institutions in supporting such programmes cannot be over emphasized. This work examines the role of co-operative banks in chronically drought prone areas and makes a critical analysis of the progress made by these bands in enrolling members, mobilization of resources, extent of beneficiaries, credit disbursement outstanding , recovery, over due problems etc. The book would prove useful to the planners, policy-makers, administrators, scholars and students in the field of rural credit in drought areas and as a compendium on the subject of rural co-operatives. About the Author DR. C.S. RAYUDU has undertaken three research projects of the Indian council of Social Science Research and the University Grants Commission. He worked in the National Council of Applied Economic Research as an Interviewer. Dr. Rayudu has presented a number of papers at the national seminars and published eighty papers in various academic journals. He is the author of Rural Credit in India Management of Rural Development Planning and Non-Credit Business Organisations, Economics of Textile Cooperatives, Marketing and Sales Management, Management of Rural Banking and Public Relations and Communications. Currently, Dr. Rayudu is working as Faculty, Department of Commerce, Krishnadevaraya University. Anantapur Andhra Pradesh.