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Awareness of community development in village India

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hyderabad; National Institute of Community development; 1966Description: 75 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307 Sen
Summary: The research project reported in the following pages was under taken in early 1965 at the request of the Ministry of Community Development. Various official and non-official agencies have evaluated the impact of the community development programme in terms of the targets set by the community development administration at various levels. We have, thanks to these agencies, a large amount of data show ing the degree of effectiveness of the official machinery in achieving these targets. On a national scale, we have had no data until now, on how the common villager in India reacted to this programme. The basic objective of the community development programme has been to generate community participation to solve the problems. of our village societies. To what extent has this been achieved? How many people are really aware of the colossal national effort to modernize the whole range of our rural life? How many have taken. advantage of this effort? Who are the people influenced most by these efforts? What progress have our villages made in communica tion facilities and institutional development? Has the panchayati raj taken roots in the political consciousness of the common villager? The research project on the "Awareness of Community Development in Village India" has sought to answer some of these. questions on a national scale. Three hundred and sixty-five villages were chosen at random from all the sixteen States of the Union for this study. The total number of respondents chosen at random from the voters' list in these villages was 7,224. The respondents and their villages were so drawn that they constituted a modified proba bility sample of the whole nation.
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The research project reported in the following pages was under taken in early 1965 at the request of the Ministry of Community Development. Various official and non-official agencies have evaluated the impact of the community development programme in terms of the targets set by the community development administration at various levels. We have, thanks to these agencies, a large amount of data show ing the degree of effectiveness of the official machinery in achieving these targets. On a national scale, we have had no data until now, on how the common villager in India reacted to this programme.

The basic objective of the community development programme has been to generate community participation to solve the problems. of our village societies. To what extent has this been achieved? How many people are really aware of the colossal national effort to modernize the whole range of our rural life? How many have taken. advantage of this effort? Who are the people influenced most by these efforts? What progress have our villages made in communica tion facilities and institutional development? Has the panchayati raj taken roots in the political consciousness of the common villager?

The research project on the "Awareness of Community Development in Village India" has sought to answer some of these. questions on a national scale. Three hundred and sixty-five villages were chosen at random from all the sixteen States of the Union for this study. The total number of respondents chosen at random from the voters' list in these villages was 7,224. The respondents and their villages were so drawn that they constituted a modified proba bility sample of the whole nation.

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