VKCs Vision by Dr. Abdul Kalam
Dr. Abdul Kalam is credited with envisioning the establishment of Village Knowledge Centres (VKCs).
The core idea was to empower villagers by disseminating knowledge and information effectively.
This vision included setting up these centres in approximately 2.3 lakh Panchayats across India.
Important Questions from Rural Development
- Participating Planning in community development employs
I. Participatory Learning
II. Participatory Rural Appraisal
III. Participatory Action
IV. Passive Participation
Codes : - Assertion (A) : To identify strategic parameters for participatory development, it is important to specify, who the stakeholders are.
Reason (R) : Stakeholders are individual persons, groups or institutions with vested interest in the intervention.
Codes : Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the options given below :
Assertion (A) : Extension workers have to be sensitive to the cultural changes taking place in the communities, they work with.
Reason (R) : Outsiders do not realize that villages ever change because often there is little outward change as compared with urban areas.Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the options given below:
Assertion (A) : MNREGA constituted very ambitious rural development programme of India.
Reason (R) : Building basic infrastructure got linked to provide minimum number of days guaranteed employment.- Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in a community can be mobilised by
(i) Gram Panchayats
(ii) Banks
(iii) Voluntary Organisations
(iv) Individuals
(v) Local Traders
Choose the correct answer from the code given below :
