Abstract
A lot of money has been pumped-in to pull the Rural-Tribal-Poor above the poverty-line and to bring them into the mainstream of development process. Different studies prove that the effort as only ‘syphon’ instead of dropped-down in favour of the rural-tribal-poor, to change their pattern of life.
In fact, the willingness of the tribal-poor to improve their condition of living has perhaps failed to bring about the desired pace of sustainable growth in the absence of the critical factor i.e. “The spontaneous participation.”
The Rainfed Farming Project (RFP) emphasized for shifting the approach of top-down towards the decentralised bottom-up approach through ‘Participatory Approach of Development’. With a view to encourage the rural-poor to develop their own plan, some fundamental considerations have been envisaged to have sustainability of technology and recycling of generated resources along with provision of minimal subsidy instead of highly subsidies approach of government departments.
The participation of these tribal-poor in the development process created confidence and led them to build up a platform to plan for their own development.
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