Sudhir KumarAIR 42 · CSE 2017 · 155 wordsTheir whole copy
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Community development Programme (CDP) started in India in 1952 on recommendations of Ashok Mehta Committee.
The objectives of CDP were -
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i) Embibing the spirit of cooperation. ii) Development of infrastructure through community efforts. iii) Decentralization of development. iv) Giving panchayats power to audit and regulate finances. v) Giving much needed attention to agriculture.
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CDP was very successful in initial 2 years as it led to infrastructure like toilets, common ground, centres, irrigation techniques adoption but then it fell in rut.
As Kapadia puts it, "there was no grassroot development in CDP as it was hijacked by bureaucracy as local leaders and groups were given no power to allocate finances. Bureaucratization led to policy paralysis and corruption. Also, funds were reduced in subsequent years as there was no planning of how to make the programme sustainable.
Ultimately it was scrapped and led to Panchayati Raj Programme which was a better institution as having statutory powers.