Selected Papers And Essays
If one goes through these, one will find that Late Sri Chakraborty not only possessed the novel ideas and ideals in the field of rural development but also translated them into practice. There is no branch of rural reconstruction programme which was not enlightened by his thoughts. During his tenure of office, the Lokashiksha Parishad with the blessings of the Headquarters took up one after another numerous projects like Rural Development Programme, Urban Development Scheme, specially Slum Dwellers’ Rehabilitation, Child Care, Mothers’ Health Care, Adult Education, Eradication of illiteracy, Rural Afforestation, Family planning, Rural Banking, Panchayeti Raj and what not? His innovative ideas in these fields drew attention of different state Governments and the Central Government. They invited him as an expert or resource person for successful implementation of their programme. Even a few foreign countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Israel, Srilanka and other countries invited him and sought his assistance in their endeavour of rural development. It may be noted in this connection that Sri Chakraborty never imposed his decision on others. He always motivated the field workers so as to act and understand things on their own initiative and thus developed leadership from the grass-root level. Sri Chakraborty also made valuable contributions to the National Planning Programme. His achievements in various fields of rural and urban development received appreciation from different international organisations like unesco, unicef, who, etc. It will not be an exaggeration to say that if his thoughts and ideas referred to various treatises published in this book would have been implemented on state and national level, then swamiji’s dream of a ‘New India’ might have been a reality. This book will certainly be a source of inspiration to all social workers and research scholars who have been working in this field. This will also be a rich collection for all rural and urban libraries and a guideline for all project officers working in different fields of rural and urban developement programme.
To bring development on a sustainable level we have also initiated such agricultural practices as are environment friendly. Thus farmers are trained to cultivate their land in such a way as they may have better crops without the use of ...
