Role of Voluntary Organisation in Promoting Participation in Development
Role of Voluntary Organisation in Promoting Participation in Development
Introduction
Non-Governmental organisations or NGOs in brief, have been engaged in many social development activities. They are organised by a group of people who feel that they have a moral duty to serve the community. They are organised on a voluntary basis on the principle of service to the socially disadvantaged classes. Their efforts supplement those of the government. Also, they can take up many activities, like organising the poor, which the government bureaucracy is not generally capable of taking up. In the developing countries as well as in the least developed countries, the role of NGOs in development activities is being increasingly emphasised in such fields as child and woman’s development, slums improvement, poverty amelioration, environmental conservation, educational development and political movements.
The success of the Rural Development depends upon the active participation and willing co-operation of the rural people through self-help organizations and voluntary agencies. In recent years, the voluntary agencies have acquired greater importance and significance than before.
Voluntary action stimulated and promoted by voluntary agencies engaged in development play a significant role at the grass roots level in the Indian social milieu; The NGOs and Government Departments are also struggling hard to organize the people through social mobilization process for eliciting their participation in the successful implementation of the development programmes. Some have succeeded in the process and some are still struggling in progressive direction. Also, the guidelines issued by the Government of India on SGSY, strongly emphasized the need for social mobilization for the successful implementation of the SGSY scheme through effective and innovative role of NGOs.
Role of NGOs in five years plans
After Independence, India was declared as a welfare state and relevant provisions were
Introduction
Non-Governmental organisations or NGOs in brief, have been engaged in many social development activities. They are organised by a group of people who feel that they have a moral duty to serve the community. They are organised on a voluntary basis on the principle of service to the socially disadvantaged classes. Their efforts supplement those of the government. Also, they can take up many activities, like organising the poor, which the government bureaucracy is not generally capable of taking up. In the developing countries as well as in the least developed countries, the role of NGOs in development activities is being increasingly emphasised in such fields as child and woman’s development, slums improvement, poverty amelioration, environmental conservation, educational development and political movements.
The success of the Rural Development depends upon the active participation and willing co-operation of the rural people through self-help organizations and voluntary agencies. In recent years, the voluntary agencies have acquired greater importance and significance than before.
Voluntary action stimulated and promoted by voluntary agencies engaged in development play a significant role at the grass roots level in the Indian social milieu; The NGOs and Government Departments are also struggling hard to organize the people through social mobilization process for eliciting their participation in the successful implementation of the development programmes. Some have succeeded in the process and some are still struggling in progressive direction. Also, the guidelines issued by the Government of India on SGSY, strongly emphasized the need for social mobilization for the successful implementation of the SGSY scheme through effective and innovative role of NGOs.
Role of NGOs in five years plans
After Independence, India was declared as a welfare state and relevant provisions were
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