COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

IN INDIA
Community
Group of people who live in a geographical area and have an
interest in each other for the purpose of making a living.

Development
It implies gradual and sequential phases of change. It refers to
the upward or increasing differentiation.
Community Development
It is a movement designed to promote better living for the
community with the active participation and/or the initiative at
the community.
 Community development
organisations
• Local social, economic, cultural, environmental and political
development.
• UN,
• WHO,
• OECD[The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development],
• World Bank,
• Council of Europe and
• EU[European Union].
DEFINITIONS

The United Nations defines community development broadly as

"a process where community members come together to take
collective action and generate solutions to common problems.“

Community Development Exchange defines community

development as:
“both an occupation (such as a community development worker
in a local authority) and a way of working with communities”.
 Genesis of Community Development
Programme (CDP - 1952)
• Fiscal Commission (1949) and the Grow More Food Enquiry
Committee (1952) launched the CDP on October 2, 1952, the
birth-day of Mahatma Gandhi.
HISTORY OF CD PROGRAMME
IN INDIA
• The community development programme was
launched on a pilot basis in 1952
• To provide for a substantial increase in the
country’s agricultural programme.
• For improvements in systems of communication,
in rural health and hygiene.
• Initiate rural education.
• Direct a process of integrated cultural
transformation in social and economic life of
villagers.
HISTORY OF CD PROGRAMME
IN INDIA
• INITIAL STAGE
• 55 PROJECTS
• 3 BLOCKS
• 450-500 SQ FEET
• 300 VILLAGES
• 2 LAKHS POPULATION

• In 1956, by the end of the first five-year plan period, there were 248
blocks, covering around a fifth of the population in the country.
HISTORY OF CD PROGRAMME
IN INDIA
• Balvantroy Mehta team- 1957
• Establishment of statutory
elective of local leaders i.e.,
Panchayat Raj Institutions (Village
Panchayat, Panchayat Union and
District Development Council).
HISTORY OF CD PROGRAMME
IN INDIA
• By the end the second five-year plan
period, there were 3,000 blocks
covering 70 per cent of the rural
population.
• By 1964, the entire country was
covered.
OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

• Economic development
• Social justice
• Democratic growth.
Specific objectives of the
Community Development
Programme
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.
Providing minimum essential
health services.
Providing required educational
facilities for children.
Adult education programme.
Providing recreational facilities
and programmes.
Improving housing and family
living conditions.
Providing programmes for
village women and youth.
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