Effective Strategies For Rural Development

Rural development is a generic concept, subsuming several fields of development that fall under economic development, democratic growth and social justice. There have been several scores of books on this subject. The present volume emphasizing clinical field approach spells out the significant factors that the planners, the organizers, the administrators and the field workers have to take care of and be sensitive in understanding people, their needs and problems and working with them for their advancement and welfare. There is no straight highway to rural development. Depending upon the ethnicity and subculture within the fold of Indian ethos, one may have to charter in multiple ways, but may remember and apply the clinical-field approach irrespective of the programmes focused upon. The planners, administrators, organizers and field workers, the teaching and the training community concerned with and working in the field of rural development would find this volume interesting and useful.
About Author :
Dr. E Desingu Setty, trained as a social scientist has extensive and diverse national and international experience in the field of development for around half a century. He was awarded Ford Foundation Scholarship for his undergraduate programme in Rural Studies. He holds two Master Degrees, viz., MCD, MA and PhD. Served as a direct hire international faculty at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand for a period of nine years. A celebrated writer of 27 books and over fifty papers and articles published in national and international journals, his three-volume work on the Valayar of South India is likened to Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama. Prepared a report on Rural Industrialisation; Small-Scale and Cottage Industries in Asia under the aegis of the United Nationals Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), Nagoya, Japan. Served as a consultant to UNESCAP, UNESCO, BRAC (Dhaka, Bangladesh), LIPI (Indonesia) and Continuing Education Centre, Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand). He was Professor at Maharishi Institute of Management, Visiting Professor at MS Ramaiah Institute of Management Studies and CMR Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.
Contents :
Contents Foreword Preface 1. Earlier Attempts towards Rural Development 2. Lessons from these Efforts towards Rural Development 3. Programme Planning to Meet People's Needs 4. Each Village as a Unit of Rural Development 5. Guidelines for Sectoral Development 6. Application of Technologies Appropriate to Rural Areas 7. Local Institutions as Primary Agents of Social Change 8. Local Leaders and Their Participation in Rural Development 9. Role of Youth in Rural Development 10. Women as Partners in Development 11. The Part Played by NGOs in Rural Development 12. Caste Dynamics in Rural Development 13. Dynamics of Dalits Development 14. Rural Sanitation-Need for a Perspective Plan 15. Integrated Approach to Water Supply and Sanitation Management 16. Clinical Approach to Development 17. Field Approach to Integrated Rural Development 18. Model for Securing People's Participation in Rural Development Appendix Index