The UT of Jammu and Kashmir has embarked on an ambitious and extensive programme of reaching out to grass root citizens to create an earnest desire for a decent standard of living in the rural masses.
The ‘Back to Village’ program is aimed to involve the citizens of the state and government officials in a joint effort to deliver the mission to achieve equitable development. The program seeks to energise Panchayats and direct development efforts in rural areas through community participation.
Despite the importance of the official machinery to guide and assist, the primary responsibility for improving the local conditions rests on the local population. Therefore, people must be encouraged to own a programme to maximise its impact.
Hence, citizens are invited to share their ideas and suggestions.
Last date of submission is 30th November 2022.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
The Gandhian vision of an ideal village or village Swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbours for its own wants and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is necessary.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
In other words, Swaraj is to be obtained by empowering the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
Real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
The word Swaraj is a sacred word, a Vedic word, meaning self-rule and self-restraint, and not freedom from all restraint, which ‘independence’ often means.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
In the Human Development Report (HDR) 2014, India ranks at 135th place both for the overall Human Development Index (HDI) and the Gender Development Index (GDI), a rating classed by the United Nations as ‘medium human development’.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
India lives in its villages, and the development of villages will be critical if we want to close the gap between the “haves and have not's” for better human development.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
“All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service, which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
It is a well-known fact that village development is a continuous, pluralistic and widely participatory process and basically means, advancement of an area, revealing, unfolding or opening up something which is latent and a change that is desirable.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
It envisages a bottom-up approach whereby the users’ group themselves decide their work programme.
Farvez Basha D 2 years 11 months ago
The new approach to village planning provides a paradigm shift in the traditional approach where the role of the government is changed from that of governance to facilitation