MEANING OF DEVELOPMENT
Development applies to all round development of a country. The society has various aspects of development. Such as freedom, participative involvement, economic equality, security, life with dignity, etc.
Development involves thinking about these aspects and planning for the way through which desires can be fulfilled. All these can be achieved through a democratic political process, where all people participate without any discrimination.
DEVELOPMENT PROMISES
DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND DIFFERENT GOALS
Development has always been an important concept pursued by human beings. Different people seek different things and have different goals for development.
Various categories of people will have a different set of developmental goals which are often conflicting, e.g., a girl expects equal freedom and opportunity like her brother and expects her brother's involvement in household work. Her brother may not like this.
Another example is, industrialists want more dams for their electricity requirement, but dams displace local community, submerge forestland and whole ecological set-up may be completely destroyed.
So we can conclude that, development perspective is contrasting and sometimes conflicting.
INCOME AND OTHER GOALS
Income is considered the most important component of development. People require regular work, better wages and decent price of their crops or other products that they produce, i.e., they require more income.
However, it is not the only component they want, beside seeking more income, people also seek equal treatment, freedom, education, security, respect for their job, peace, pollution-free environment and so on.
These other components are as important as income or consumption, because material goods are not all that we need to live. It is quality of life that matters most.
Hence, for development people look at a mix of goals and developmental goals include both economic development and better quality of life.
National Development
Individuals seek different goals and their motive of national development is also likely to be different. While planning for national development, it should be kept in mind that diferent persons could have different as well as conflicting notions for a country's development, e.g., a farmer wants India to develop in a particular way, whereas a trader wants another way and a teacher yet another way. Under national development, priority is given to those goals which benefit a large number of people.
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