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To accelerate the process of economic development and social change, The Community Development Programme was launched in the country in 1952 which was in course of time integrated with the Panchayat Raj institutions. But economic and political benefits were grabbed by the rich farmers and upper strata of village communities. The C.D.P. however did help in establishing an administrative machinery at the grass-root levels and also in creating infrastructural ...
Needless to say, the term 'environment' and its cognate elements have come very much into vogue in social sciences and other kindered disciplines during the last two decades. The changing socio-economic and political scenario in India also lends more significance to the studies of environment and related issues. A number of puzzling questions are already being raised on this thematic discourse; for instance: are development and environment opposing or ...
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, ...
With the increasing population and industrialization, the world is witnessing tremendous pressure on its natural resources. Protection and preservation of the environment has therefore become a prerequisite and integral part of the development process at local, national and global level. All over the world, environmental movements (also termed as new movements) are spreading their wings and rewriting the social and economic history. In India too, people in ...