National

Development:
How to attain
it?
Wizly Von L. Tanduyan
Reporter
 National development is the ability of a country
or countries to improve the social welfare of
the people e.g by providing social amenities like
quality education, potable water, transportation
infrastructure, medical care, etc.

What is It is holistic in approach. It is a process of

National reconstruction and development in various
dimensions of a nation and development of
Development ? individuals.

John Vaizey, noted economist defines:

“National development is the total effect of all
citizen forces and addition to the stock of
physical, human resources, knowledge and skill.”
HOW TO ATTAIN DEVELOPMENT?
Broadly, development of the nation encapsulates
such parameters as:

(ii) Increase in
(i) Development agricultural
(iii) harnessing (iv) Development of
through a planned production through
industrial production, human resource,
national economy, application of modern
technical know-how,

(vi) Provision of various

(v) Application of facilities to meet the
science and (vi) provision of mass needs and aspirations of
technology in education and disadvantaged, deprived
production sector, and poorest of the poor
segments of population.
Problems of National Development: (A)

(i) Tardy
(ii) Large scale
economic growth
unemployment (iii) Large pool of (iv) Rapid growth
in terms of G.N.P.
and under- illiteracy. of population.
and standard of
employment.
living.

(v) Challenges of
national and (vi) Inertia to (vii) Slow process
emotional change process. of modernisation.
integration.
Problems of National Development: (B)

(viii) Problem of (xi) Lethargic attitude

evolving a (ix) Incidence of (x) Phenomenon of of people to the core
democratic, poverty and poor urbanisation and its value of work and
socialistic and standard of living. allied malaise. unwillingness to take
secular order. responsibility.

(xiv) Useless and

(xii) Mismatch (xiii) Rise of
low quality products
between moral and phenomenon of
of institutions of
scientific values. brain-drain.
higher learning.
The Importance Of National Development
“ IMPROVE THE LIVES OF HER CITIZENS”
THE END