Community Development Programme AS per Planning Commission of India
We aim to educate more and more children by equipping them with schooled background and enhance their intellectual awareness by learning, critical thinking and communication. This will help the children to thrive well in life, personally and professionally. We will do this by providing a complementary curriculum within the aforesaid schools. From this learning environment, children will learn holistically.
With above goal in mind and with Support of our technology and education partner IIMPS (ISARA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ) , Customized study program has been developed to empower Women and economically weaker section population.
Special scholarship is provided on need basics to BPL / EWS , SC/ST and Differently abled section of society.
The community development programme was started in India just after independence
(1952). It was a multi project programme with the aim of an overall development
of rural people. This programme consisted of agriculture, animal husbandry,
irrigation, cooperation, public health, education, social education, communication,
village industries etc. In fact all these aspects of life relate to the 80
per cent of India's farming population. There are officials for each activity
at district level to plan, execute and evaluate the programme up to the village
level.
Community development
is an exclusive term. It is frequently used to encompass any and every effort
towards the advance of community interests. A variety of interpretations are
therefore easily available. Community development is a compound term.
It is useful, therefore, to consider its components.
The Community:
A community is a group
of people, who live in a geographical area and have interests in each other for
the purpose of making a living.
It is a farm of social organization existing between the family and state.
A community, while in itself consisting of several parts, is also a part of a larger
social system. It is a dynamic social unit which is subject to change of internal
or external origin. Some of the important characteristics of the community
are
1. Communities are close-knit
2. Their customs are interrelated
3. These communities are complexes of sub-group relationship and
4. There is a discernible leadership within the community.
Development:
The term development connotes growth or maturation. It implies gradual and
sequential phases of change.
By understanding the
above terms, we can say that community development programmes means a programme
for gradual change in a group of people living in a geographical area and have interest
in each other for the purpose of making a living.
Concepts of Community Development:
1. Community development
is a movement designed to promote better living for the whole community with the
active participation and on the initiative of the community.
2. Community development is a balanced programme for stimulating the local potential
for growth in every direction. Its promise is of reciprocal advance in both
wealth and wealth and welfare, not on the basis of outside charity but by building
on the latent vitality of the beneficiaries themselves with the minimum of outside
aid.
3. Community development is technically aided and locally organized self help.
4. The term community development has come into international usage to denote the
process by which the efforts of the people themselves are united with those the
governmental authorities to improve the economic social and cultural conditions
of the communities, to integrate these communities into the life of the nation and
enable them to contribute fully to national progress.
5. Community development is the term used to describe the technique which many governments
have adopted to reach their village people and to make more effective use of local
initiative and energy for increased production and better living standards.
6. Community development is a process of social action in which the people of a
community organize themselves for planning and action, define their needs and problems.
Community development has now set the pattern for the development of the rural people
and the rural areas. The objectives of development and the new approach it
makes to the solution of the problem of rural reconstruction, the comprehensive
nature of the programme that it is promoting. The approach to the programme
is two fold, educational and organizational. The rural people are to be educated
in the art of better living, for bringing about a change in their attitude, for
breaking away from primitive methods of production, unhygienic says of living based
on tradition and for the adopting of progressive ways based on science and technology.
Please click here to see Community Development Programes run by Shri Paramhans Education & Research Foundation Trust (SPHERT.)