People’s Participation in Development

Participation of the people in the programmes leads to realistic plans better resource mobilization andbetter implementation with greater cooperation better integration of activities and services below betterachievement of the objectives and finally wider distribution of the benefits. Keeping in view the vitalimportance of people’s participation an attempt has been made to compile the papers presented at thenational seminar on People’s Participation in Development by the academicians of different universitiesand social workers in order to know the nature and extent of people’s participation in the developmentalprogrammes barriers to peoples participation and strategies to strengthen people’s participation.