1st Edition

The Challenge Of Integrated Rural Development In India A Policy And Management Perspective

By Gerald E Sussman Copyright 1983
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Challenge of Integrated Rural Development in India -- Setting the Stage: The Pilot Project-National Program Relationship -- Why Replication of a Pilot Project is not Possible -- Program Expansion Nevertheless -- Thresholds in Program Development -- A Rural Development Strategy -- Integrated Rural Development in India -- Orientation & Study Centre,Mysore Organisational Set-Up Extension Work in the Context of Panchayati Raj in India -- 34 Respondents Interviewed Intensively for Study

Biography

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.