Pulling a village out of poverty - The Hindu

Pulling a village out of poverty - The Hindu



I WISH EVERY CANDIDATE CONTESTING FOR A LOK SABHA SEAT IN ELECTION 2014 READS THIS ARTICLE AND GIVES HIS/HER VIEWS ON THE 'CHINDHBARRI' MODEL MENTIONED HERE WHILE CANVASSING VOTES!

Online comments posted on March 18, 2014:

Building a development model from below-the grass-root level- may not go well with the LPG philosophy and the imported economic development model being propagated since 1990’s in India.
The Grama Swaraj model envisaging, inter alia, listing of local resources and priorities on a sheet of paper, targeting names and not ‘numbers’, dividing even a tribal hamlet of 75 families into further groups of manageable size, sourcing adequate funds from projects like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by tweaking the rules to ensure timely and adequate finance and replicating the model to additional 46 panchayats should attract the attention of planners and opinion-makers to force the authorities to think in terms of making plans and schemes an aggregation of ground-level resources and needs. Presently, the thinking is that development objective can be achieved by centralised planning and making allocation of funds to different geographies.

from:  M G WARRIER
Posted on: Mar 18, 2014 at 10:30 IST
Unabridged response:


Many thanks to The Hindu for finding space for this article at the most opportune time. Yes, the reference is to Elections 2014. I wish, each candidate aspiring a seat in the 16th Lok Sabha reads this article and expresses his/her views on the “Chindhbarri Model” and the rationale for the kind of development approach being recommended by Alex Paul Menon, while canvassing votes.
Building a development model from below-the grass-root level- may not go well with the LPG philosophy and the imported economic development model being propagated since 1990’s in India. But, in the Indian context, the model looks familiar and workable.
The Grama Swaraj model envisaging, inter alia, listing of local resources and priorities on a sheet of paper, targeting names and not ‘numbers’, dividing even a tribal hamlet of 75 families into further groups of manageable size, sourcing adequate funds from projects like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by tweaking the rules to ensure timely and adequate finance and replicating the model to additional 46 panchayats should attract the attention of planners and opinion-makers to force the authorities to think in terms of making plans and schemes an aggregation of ground-level resources and needs. Presently, the thinking is that development objective can be achieved by centralised planning and making allocation of funds to different geographies.
M G Warrier, Thiruvananthapuram

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