This book contains valuable contents with a strong relation with the University Grants Commission (UGC) led National Curricular Framework and Guidelines for “Fostering Social Responsibility and Community Engagement” under the agship of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) 2.0. This book aims to cover various contexts required for a higher educational institution (HEI) student to mitigate the problems associated with the mandatory course on “Community Based Participatory Research - CBPR”. Further, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 lays a great emphasis on participatory-based community engagement as part of regular learning. The quantity mandate initiative has an important vertical on improving societal linkages of HEIs and enabling students to become socially productive, among other things. This book aims to cater the need of guidance for all the 4-year undergraduate students in HEIs of India for enabling them to think, learn and engage in the rural and social activities as part of their studies. This book puts light on following key aspects such as, current scenario of community engagement, principles of community engagement, need of the CBPR course in the curriculum, understanding rural society, rural development programmes, practical guidelines for CBPR. This book also contains easy-togo Excel statistical analysis on sample data that can help students to and the inner concept of the collected data during their field activities. All 4-year undergraduate students following the UGC NEP 2020 curriculum shall be beneted by reading this book to help themselves with in-depth knowledge harnessing and practicum (eld work in rural areas) with 3- credit marks structure.