Challenge Of Integrated Rural Development In India
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agricultural modernization
Anand Bhavan
Author_Gerald E Sussman
Categorical Program
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Community Development program
community development programs
Community Projects Administration
development administration India
District Development Officers
District Planning Officer
Drought Prone Areas Program
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good administration
government strategies
Govind Ballabh Pant
integrated rural development
Intensive Agricultural District Program
Iowa State University
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lakh Tons
Medically Underserved Areas
Mehta Report
Minor Irrigation Department
National Health Service Corps
Nehru
NES
organizational implementation challenges
Panchayati Raj
panchayati raj governance
political survival
Prime Minister Nehru
Provided Development Efforts
rural policy analysis
Rural Poor
systems approach rural transformation
Total Plan Outlay
VLW
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- ISBN 9780367306076
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 160 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1952, India launched a massive and enthusiastic effort to reach the 360 million people in its 550,000 villages with a national program of economic and social reconstruction. Known as Community Development, the program provided an innovative model of rural development for both Third World nations and the aid-giving countries of the West. Although the program achieved its goal of providing service coverage to the nation, its many implementation problems and the lack of quantifiable cost-effectiveness led critics to label it a failure and resulted in its submergence into the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 1966. More recently, however, partly as a result of the social dislocations following the "Green Revolution," there has been renewed interest in Community Development as the Indian government searches for ways of effectively implementing a strategy of integrated rural development. It is recognized that a repeat of the CD program is not the answer; but an analysis of the program allows the identification of the elements critical to good administration—and political survival. Drawing on extensive interviews with Indian and American participants, this book critically appraises the Community Development program. Dr. Sussman examines the successful pilot project at Etawah, then documents the many problems—organizational, political, and logistical—that were encountered in the attempt to replicate it on a nationwide scale, and that eventually led to its demise. From his analysis emerges the question of what kind of government strategies can best equip rural populations to participate in development. Admitting the difficulties still to be faced, he concludes on a note of guarded optimism based on recent efforts in both India and the U.S. that combine a systems approach with the use of a range of development strategies.
Dr. Gerald E. Sussman is presently on the teaching faculty of the School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, and is the director of the Public Health Regional Administration Program. This book is the result of many years of actual field work and research.
