Studies in block development and co-operative organisation/ by D.K.Desai...[et.al] c.1

Thirty-three situational studies of Block-level work comprise the bulk of this book. The writers of these studies are members of the faculty group which works on management in agriculture and co-opera tives at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In these studies, we were concerned with the practicalities of "getting the job done in the Block". So we have tried to look at Block development and co-operative organisation from a managerial point of view, rather than at developmental theory as such.

When our group started to work on management in agriculture and co-operatives, we found it both stimulating and fitting that the first work which we were to do together should be at the Block level. For it is really at this level that the macro-ideas from the top meet (and sometimes collide with) the diversity of micro-problems which are concentrated in our 500,000 villages. Thus, the man who works at the Block level has to translate policy from above into day-to-day actions which will get his workers' product (namely, development) into the field. This is a job of management.