Management of rural development programmes: organizational deficiencies and strategies for improvement

Abstract

The main burden of managing Rural Development Programmes falls on the District Administration which is operating unit of the government for specified region. The district Administration being an integral part of larger administrative system, suffers from the various maladies effecting the larger system. While the overall nature of deficiencies in Indian bureaucracy is well known, little is known about how these deficiencies affect the implementation process. This paper examines the administrative process to bring out whether some structural and organizational changes at the district level alone would be able to improve the efficiency of the machinery. It highlights some of the administrative processes that generally affect the performance of various management tasks at the district level and examines the different approaches for introducing structural changes in the system for improving its efficiency.