Planning is a process which involves studying of past and present in order to forecast the future. It provides guidelines and minimizes cost. Planning is important and necessary for everyone. Planning plays an important role as an individual, family or business or organization.
According to Myerson and Benfield (1935), “Planning is designing a course of action to achieve ends.”
According to Boyle(1965), “the most effective planning effort would be which achieves the greatest degree of performance of the actions, motions or operations implied by a set of planning concepts which depict the ideal process.”
Programme planningis a procedure of working with the people in an effort to recognize unsatisfactory situations, needs or problems, and to determine possible solutions. This is a conscious effort to meet the needs, interests and wants of the people for whom the programme is intended. People’s needs are a central concern of planners for rural development.
Rural Youth discussing their needs with the Extension Workers
Participants