Functions of Extension education in Rural Development
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Lesson 31:Rural development
Functions of Extension education in Rural Development
Extension Education is the process of developing capabilities of the individuals through education which is stretched out to people to meet their needs.
Rural development aims at enhancement in the standard of living of the poor through various programmes designed and planned to meet the developmental needs.
It can be concluded that Rural Development is the programme and Extension Education is the process of taking the programme to the right people in a right way to meet their developmental needs, thus enhances the standard of living.
The nine functions of Extension Education process in rural development programme.
Planning – It identifies the needs of the people and sketch out a programme to meet the identified needs.
Convergence – It identifies the suitable rural development programme in operation, which is relevant to meet the needs and decides the extent, situation and action of utilization.
Coordination – It brings the people with needs, the institutions with programmes and personnel with functions on one plat form to meet the common goal.
Cooperation – It motivates planners, executers and users to work as a team with a combined force to meet the goals.
Collaboration – It pools all the essential resources from all directions to make them accessible to achieve the goal.
Facilitation – It plays a role of catalyst in the implementation of development programme and smoothens the progress
Monitoring - It keeps an eye on the progress of the programme for the purpose of overcoming the obstacles
Evaluation – It quantitatively assess the quality and quantity of progress at periodic intervals to reconsider any of the issues that are not met.
Network- The process of extension education finally set the functional relationships between institutions, which works as input and output device in the field of human development.
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