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NGOs are in important link between people at the grassroots, civil society and the state. They have been instrumental in creating awareness and implementing development programmes in agriculture, watershed development, women's empowerment, education, de-addiction, removal of superstitions, and health and family welfare. They are thus representative of alternative modes of development thinking in India. At the same time, NGOs are dependent, on, and influenced by, ...
Communication and rural development is a social anthropological holistic study of the existing media of communication-traditional as well as modern-and of their role in rural development. A village Pothnal in Manvi Taluka, Raichur district, Karnataka was studied for more than a year during 1975-76. a re-study was made in 1988 in order to assess the nature of changes that have taken place in the village. Rural development which includes dissemination of ideas and ...