Evaluation Study of Post-Stage II C.D. Blocks

Abstract

The Community Development programme was started with the object of creating a tempo of people’s participation as supplementary to governmental efforts in improving the social and economic conditions of the rural people. The programme was started in 55 Community Project areas of India in October, 1952. National Extension Service blocks came into existence in 1953 where all the new areas selected for development were to continue for three years as N.E.S. blocks for which a budget provision of Rs. 4.5 lakhs per block was made. They were converted into blocks in intensive development for three years wherever the people’s participation was encouraging and funds were available. At the end of the intensive development phase, they were developed according to live N.E.S. pattern and were known as Post intensive blocks. From April, 1958. it was decided to implement the rural development programmes in two stages of five years instead of existing three phases, viz- NE.S., Community Development and Post intensive phase. After completing a period of ten years and passing through Stage I and Stage II, a block entered into Post-stage II phase when the block would have established a permanent unit of planning and development specially where Panchayati Raj had been introduced.