Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• India was a self-sufficient and self sustained country a long time back. It had a balanced system of society. But this situation was changed and distributed by invaders and Mogul rule. At that time village were very much affected and for a long time no people felt the need for rural reconstruction work.
• After the Mogul Empire India was ruled by British people. The British government also never took any serious attempts to uplift the Indian villages. They woke up only under some critical and compelling situations like famines or similar widespread economic distress. Between 1800 to 1900 there were 31 famines which affected the different part of the country. These famines jerked the government into action.
• To improve the economic status of the people the Government implemented certain progarmmes, the details are as follows:

Name of Programme	Year	Result of the programme
The Famine Commission	1880	Agricultural departments in most of the states started functioning.
The Famine Commission	1898
The Famine Commission	1901	The Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, Agricultural College at Poona, District level agricultural and livestock farms and experimental stations were started. The Indian Agricultural Service was constituted at the centre. Later the Animals Husbandry, Irrigation, Rural Development Departments were started.
The Irrigation committee	1903	-
The Commission on co-operation	1915	-
The Government of India Act	1919	Agricultural development became a state subject.
The Royal commission	1928	Establish a body for Agricultural Research at the National level for promotion guidance and co-ordination of Agricultural and animal Husbandry Research.

• The efforts taken by the British government and India are described in detail in the following chapters.