Principles and Techniques of Veterinary and AH Extension

APPROACH TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER IRDP

• While increasing agricultural productivity and providing infrastructure had been and would remain the major goal, the approach attempts to be more egalitarian, encompassing all the narrow barriers and embracing, continuous and vigorous national activity, commensurate with the magnitude of the problem itself.
• In brief, the overall concern is on community orientation, minimum state intervention, mass participation, self-reliance, non-specialization and pooling of local resources and service to people.
• The approach of the programme is based on decentralized micro-level planning at the block level.
• It is to bring about integration in the area approach and the beneficiary approach of the various rural development schemes currently in operation to achieve the objectives of rural development in terms of production and full employment.