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Cultural and Social heritage and dilemma in the rural development
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Principle of participatory planning

  • Development should be seen more as a change from the bottom up than from top down
  • The development process should be managed as natural organic process
  • Development programs should aim to strengthen local organization and not state.
  • Central government should start with some few schemes to solve some immediate local problems to build local confidence and expertise
  • The development process is supported by local institutions with villagers, cooperatives, community-based users, groups
  • It follows from the above that the development process must be based on primarily on confidence and learning rather than on experts and training.
  • This also implies that technical staff of departments should work in tandem with local institution rather sit on judgments on the plan.
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