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• Visit local Anganwadi Centre and observe the services being provided
• Visit local NGOs, civil society organisations and interact with their staff and
beneficiaries,

• Organize awareness programmes, health camps, Disability camps and cleanliness
camps

• Conduct soil health test, drinking water analysis, energy use and fuel efficiency
surveys

• Raise understanding of people’s impacts of climate change, building up community’s
disaster preparedness
• Organise orientation programmes for farmers regarding organic cultivation, rational
use of irrigation and fertilizers and promotion of traditional species of crops and
plants

• Formation of committees for common property resource management, village pond
maintenance and fishing
e) Teaching & Learning Methods

A large variety of methods of teaching must be deployed:

UGC will prepare an ICT based MOOC for self-paced learning by students for the 1
credit to be conducted in the classroom

Reading & classroom discussions, Participatory Research Methods & Tools, Community
dialogues, Oral history, social and institutional mapping, interactions with elected
panchayat leaders and government functionaries, Observation of Gram Sabha, Field
visits to various village institutions.

Recommended Readings
Books:

1. Singh, Katar, Rural Development : Principles, Policies and Management, Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2015.

2. A Hand book on Village Panchayat Administration, Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Panchayati
Raj Studies, 2002.
3. United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals, 2015 un.org/sdgs/

4. M.P.Boraian, Best Practices in Rural Development, Shanlax Publishers, 2016.
Journals:

1. Journals of Rural development, (published by NIRD & PR Hyderabad)
2. Indian Journal of Social Work, (by TISS, Bombay)

3. Indian Journal of Extension Education (by Indian Society of Extension Education)

4. Journal of Extension Education (by Extension Education Society)