3. What are the broad aims of an alternative plan?

These need to be articulated clearly keeping in view the priorities on which there is near unanimity – priorities such as reduction of poverty, sustainability of livelihoods based on protection of environment, equality of women,…

Alternative Planning

Alternative Planning

Bharat Dogra, Vansh and ABSSS Activists have come out with an alternative plan for sustainable livelihood in Bundelkhand, blessed with adequate water resources, good farmland and rich mineral wealth, but cursed by deprivation of the people in general.

1. Why Search for Alternatives

There has been an increasing realisation in recent years of the need to look carefully for an alternative paradigm of development. This realisation is based on increasing evidence that existing policies, programmes and priorities have…