Trishna Singh, of the developmentthrough participatory GSS, from its

earlier experience, found that most

Gram Sevak Sangh (GSS) has been working in the tribal belts of Central
India for over one decade; in earlier years, its major emphasis had been
on income generation projects along with fighting for the rights of the
tribal’s.

The proposal was accepted by an international donor agency and as an

experiment;
Two years have already passed in the life of the team, after initial
euphoria of the team leader who initiated certain activities in the area
the team seems to have made little progress. Munish a rural
management graduate is 28 years old, and has been working with GSS
for last five years in various projects. The CEO likes him for his
initiative and hard-nosed approach to development. Moreover, Munish
is regarded as an asset by the organisation for his presentation and
report writing skills. A couple of years back it had developed a project
proposal for an integrated approach to development would work
effectively. Since the constitution of the team, she had reports of
conflicts between the members and the leader and despite of the hard
work that the Kalandhi Spearhead Team (KSHT) Leader had put in, not
a single review meeting had passed without the tension level becoming
unbearable. The performance
GSS was given funding for a period of five years to apply its approach
to development in the Kalandhi block. For this project, Trishna Singh
selected Munish Kumar as the leader of the team.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gram Sevak Sangh was worried about
how the team she has put in Kalandhi block