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Discuss the meaning and role of voluntary organizations in the efforts of transformation of society through state-action.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Politics and Society

After independence, the state was India's chief agent of transformation. Planning, land reform, community development and welfare were meant to carry society from tradition to modernity. Voluntary organisations (VOs) have acted as the state's partners, innovators and critics in that project.

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