- S.K. Dey played a crucial role in conceptualizing, launching, and implementing the Community Development Projects in 1952. - He envisioned CDP as a movement for rural transformation based on self-help and community participation. - His leadership was instrumental in establishing the organizational framework and spreading the program across the country in its initial phase.
Out of the persons mentioned below, who pioneered the Community Development Programmes in independent India?
Asked in APPSC Panchayat secretary Prelims 2016 · Topic: Panchayati Raj and Community Development (Community Development Programme (1952) and its Evolution)
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