What is Panchayati Raj? Decentralized Planning is a system through which planning is done at different smaller administrative and executive levels. As you know the objective is to establish greater linkage between the developmental needs and priorities of local areas and different social classes in keeping with the sub-national and national level development policies and…

What is Decentralization? The process in which the power or authority present in the hands of the State and Central Government is taken back and is allocated to the local government it is called decentralization. In this mechanism, the authoritative nature of people with power is eradicated and powers are handed over to the suitable…

Communication is used for more than just passing on information from one person to another. It is often used as a tool to facilitate the participation of people in developmental activities. Such form of communication is known as development communication. According to Everett Rogers, “Development communication refers to the uses to which communication are put…

The development communication aims at the behavioural change for the social and economic growth of a particular public. Till now we have studied that development communication is a strategic process of disseminating messages based on pre-conceived policy and plans. Thus this process involves a few fundamental steps to achieve its goals. These steps can be…

The social approach to communication emphasises on the effect of the message on the other person or persons. According to this approach, the message needs to have stimulation value and effect. Communication can take place at different development levels of the social system. A social system has been defined as a collectivity of units which…

Devcom’ is the technical term which is often used for development communication. The role of Devcom is to create the environment if necessary for development to succeed. Wittman defines it as an organised systematic effort to apply knowledge about social health and pathology in such a manner. as to enhance and preserve the social and…

There are various ways to look at the development and execute plans to achieve development goals. We have understood the Meaning and Concept of Development and we know about the Issues and problems in development, now we will understand how we will approach the development to solve these problems. What is Approach? The approach is…

Development is a complex process of moving the nation ahead on the paths of better social and economic growth. This growth is achieved by eradicating poverty, starvation and boosting health, literacy, economic growth of under-developed areas of the nation. What is the Model? Model is a theoretical term used in research. A model systematically describes…