Development has not only economic but also social as well as cultural dimensions. The state has tried to play its role in the field of development. But its wavelength is at variance with that of the people. The central and critical point is that masses want work. But the political and administrative classes are after money and power. Hence there is a hiatus. Development administration in India is about the fight against hunger, malnutrition, infant morality maternal mortality, ill health, illiteracy and deprivation of the poor, who form the majority of the country. There is an increasing awareness in the country today that rather than fighting unemployment through a centralized mode of administration, the state can address the grievances of the people through decentralized economic as well as political power. There is rampant and unabashed corruption in high places. The society is being pushed to the precipice of moral and spiritual bankruptcy by the baser instincts of the power elite. The populace wants jobs; but the government is on the capitalistic road of economic development, which through liberalization, privatization and excellence, in spite of, all the bad things that flow from it. The top bureaucracy cultivates exclusiveness, springing from the feeling that they are arrogance leading to insensitiveness to the suffering of the masses. Specialists’ legitimate role has been usurped by generalists. Citizens’ participation is a prerequisite for development. It makes them self-reliant responsible and autonomous. This can come through a decentralized economic and Political System.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR N. Hazary
Narayan Hazary (b. 1937) studied at Allahabad University. He was awarded Ph.D. from Berhampur University. Formerly Professor in Political Science, Utkal University, Orissa and Visiting Professor, Nagaland university. He has edited Eternal Gandhi (1998) and published Grassroot Politics in rural India (1985). He has contributed numerous research articles to prestigious edited volumes and research journals. With faith in peoples’ power that alone can bring in economic development and can counter iniquitous system as well as effect social transformation, he has worked in village Buddhagram (Kesahhapur) in Nayagarh District of Orissa and has founded “Friends of Trees and Living Beings, which has spread the message of forest conservation, afforestation and eco-farming movement to nearly 800 villages and has received the Global 500 Environmental Award of the United Nations (1989), the Brikshya Mitra Award of the Government of India (1989) and the Prakruti Mitra Award of the Government of Orissa (1986). It works for participatory development in the Budhhagram Environment Movement. Currently he is addressing the people in their idiom on basic contradictions and exerting them to bank on self-governance rather than governmental assistance, to meet the challenges of unemployment, poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill health. He questions boldly the rights of the state to give away the resources to corporate sector, both national as well as multi-nationals –the gravest issue before the nation today.
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Development Administration
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1st ed.
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8176488496
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xvi+209p., Tables; Notes; References; Index; 23cm.
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