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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Grass root Planning.

  • UPSC 1988
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Grass-root planning is the preparation of development plans at the level where people live — village, block and district — by elected local bodies and the assembly of citizens, rather than by a distant technical bureaucracy. It rests on the sociological claim that local knowledge, felt needs and accountability improve both the content of plans…

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