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Lecture- 10
Community Development Programme
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A community consists of persons in social interaction within a geographical area and having common centers of interest & activities and functioning together in the chief concern of life.
Community Development is a movement designed to promote better living for the whole community with the active participation and on the initiative of the community
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BASIC PHILOSOPHY
• Individual development
• Development of family.
• Awareness of the responsibilities and self motivation among the people
• Community development
• Development of Cooperativeness among the people
• To create confidence towards science and technology
• Development of rural leadership
• Development of rural institutions.
• Development of other resources for community development
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PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
• Activities correspond to the basic needs of the community projects.
• Local improvements achieved through unrelated efforts in each substantive field.
• Changed attitudes in people
• increased and better participation of the people in community affairs.
• identification, encouragement and training of local leadership .
• Greater reliance on the participation of women and youth.
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• self-help projects for communities require both intensive and extensive assistance .
• Implementation of community development programme on a national scale requires adoption of consistent policies.
• The resources of Non-Governmental Organizations should be fully utilized.
• Economic and social progress at the local level
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Basic objectives
• all-round development of the rural community
• develop the feeling of communitarian life style among the rural people.
• To develop the feeling of responsibility Objectives:
• To increase the agricultural production
• Community and integrated development
• The extension of the new scientific knowledge
• Development of small and medium irrigation projects
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• Development of co-operative organizations
• Construction of roads.
• To increase the adult education and primary education
• Facility for entertainment.
• Development and construction of primary health care centre and the public health service.
• To inspire the youth for the development programme.
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National Extension Services (NES
National Extension Services (NES) was started in October 2nd 1953.
The Idea behind NES was to cover entire country by the year1960.
Operational unit in both C.D and NES was development block.
Activities under NES programme were less intensive than those of C.D.
Basic idea of both CD and NES is same. Both are complementary, interwoven and run concurrently.
Each NES block covers 100 villages with 65,000 population. Each block is headed by Block Development Officer (BDO) who is in turn assisted by Extension Officer with 10 Multipurpose Village Level Workers (MPVLW).
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SIMILARITIES BETWEEN EXTENSION EDUCATION AND CD
• essentially educative
• central objective is the “Growth of people”
• inter disciplinary in chapter
• aim at bringing about change
• involvement processes
• relatively slow processes
• government sponsored and supported organizations.
• emphasize on cooperation
• concerned with social and economic development
