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The beginning of social work not only in India but in Europe and America was concentrated on micro issues of the society. It mainly focuses on the individual concerns by putting individual as a problematic person. However, this approach sees individual as a subject of social work practice. Unlike micro practice, macro social work practices focuses on broad issues which is based on the assumption that environment and the outer structure of the society has certain difficulty and hence, it should be dealt with. The macro social work approach further focuses on challenging the structural inequalities to bring about change in the society. Social work practice in India which was heavily focuses on the functional issues of the society ignored the issues that has emerged from the social structure. Nevertheless, there were few attempts by social work practitioners during 1980's to bring the structural issues in centre of social work practice. The experience of practising social work in rural areas is different from that in urban areas. This has led to the development of a rural specialisation in the social work profession. In this article, the author draws upon his experience of more than 30 years as a social worker in rural settings, to explore the relationship between rurality and professional social work practice and education.