The National Rural Development Program and Rural Growth Centers were tentative and belated policies aimed at diverting rural populations from moving to the few urban areas which Banda's macroeconomic policies had created and were now being battered by the arrival of more and more rural people seeking better opportunities
Bungwe la National Rural Development Programme and Rural Growth Centres linali losatheka komanso linachedwa ndondomeko zomwe cholinga chake chinali kupatutsa anthu akumidzi kuti asachoke m’matauni ochepa omwe ndondomeko za chuma cha Banda zidakhazikitsa ndipo tsopano zikusokonekera chifukwa cha kubwera kwa anthu akumidzi omwe akufunafuna mipata yabwino