Community Development:
- It is a movement designed to promote better living for the community with active participation and/or the initiative at the community.
- It is a method by which people of villages are involved in helping to improve their own economic and social conditions and thereby they become more effective groups in programmes of their national development
Objectives of Community Development in India
The fundamental or basic objective of Community Development in India is the development of people.
Its broad objectives are
- Economic development,
- Social justice and
- Democratic growth.
The attempt is to secure as good a balance as possible among these three objectives and to inter-relate them in a manner that they support one another.
More specifically, the objectives of the Community Development Programme are:
- To assist each village in having effective panchayats, cooperatives and schools;
- Through these village institutions, plan and carry out integrated multi-phased family, village, Block and District.
- Increasing agricultural production.
- Improving existing village crafts and industries and organising new ones.
- Providing minimum essential health services and improving health practices.
- Providing required educational facilities for children and an adult education programme.
- Providing recreational facilities and programmes.
- Improving housing and family living conditions,
- Providing programmes for village women and youth.
National Extension Services (NES-1953)
- NES was implemented from 2.10.1953.
- This was implemented in the areas which were not covered by CDP, so that entire country would get the benefit of development. When compared to CDP, the NES was less intensive in character.
Objectives of NES
- To change the outlook of village people;
- To make the people participate effectively in development programmes;
- To develop village leaders accepted by all;
- To increase the employment and production.