The Fifth Evaluation Report on Working of Community Development and N.E.S. Blocks

Abstract

This is the fifth Evaluation Report. It is based upon four elaborate field enquiries into the organisation and operation of the community development and the N.E.S. programmes, the organisation and working of the panchayats, the dissemination of improved agricultural practices and the growth of people’s participation and, finally, the maintenance of records in the development blocks. The emphasis has been on a relatively intensive study of a few selected topics rather than an extensive review of all aspects of the programme. What the study may have lost in comprehensiveness, it has, it is hoped, gained in depth. To the reader, the data and the analysis should be as important as the conclusions reached.