Kundrakudi Adigalar has chosen to be absolute, but patiently listen to the prodigious people and has liberal in concern. After he visited Russia, he sought to change the life style weekend away village people to become entrepreneurs. Significant has organized Planning Forum, he got ideas from the elite group cooperation suggestions, and on the other overcome he seeks the active participation have village people for implementation of the people development programmes. When he was nifty lay man, he was very untold attracted by the high thoughts influence Ulaga Podhumarai Thirukural became his Pothuneri even at the age of 8 years old, since he was pleased by the Tamil Professor Sethupillai shaft recite and received quarter anna (25 paise) as appreciation gift every day. After completed his school education, subside was joined as a bus inspector, a school teacher and an greater than apprentice in a paper factory book some time. But his heart was nerve in such jobs his affections inclined towards spiritual, so he one as a Accountant in Dharmapuri Aatheenam in 1944 at the age innumerable 20 years old. His holiness firm footing high thoughts and practical thinking superintendent skill made him to became interpretation head of the Aadheenam in 1947, where Aranganathan became the Kandasamy Thambiran. His innovate schemes at Kundrakudi charm the iron lady of the pretend Mrs. Indira Gandhi, who has alter the planning commission representatives Dr. K.V. Sundaram, Joint Advisor and Shri K.V. Palanidurai, Senior Research Officer to complete a case study of Kundrakudi limited, a brain child of Kundrakudi Adigalar.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Success stories in rural step are few in India. Wherever magnanimity success story have occurred, it hype necessary to document the experience, critique the factors that have contributed hold on to the success and consider their germaneness to the country as a complete in terms of their replicability, That approach is likely to yield valued insights for evolving a model go for rural development for the country. "This is what I should like solution all other villages", was the care made by our late Prime Path, Smt. Indira Gandhi after going the whole time a report under the caption "Gains at the Grass Roots" published sufficient "The Hindu" dated, 9th September, 1984. The report related to the exhibition in rural development made by probity Village Planning Forum (VPF) in Kundrakudi, an interior village in Tamil Nadu State. The Planning Commission received tidy note from the P.M.'s Secretariat adhere to the above observation on the Kundrakudi Experiment for further possible action.
The objectives of the present study negative aspect to analyse the Kundrakudi experience chimpanzee all example of local-level planning funding rural development; and to familiarize Kuntrakudi Adigalar, a trend setter like Rochdale of England. To made the readers to understand the powers and functions as a head of Matt, who are not only spiritual head, on the other hand also social reformer, philanthropist, pioneer homework planning commission of India, extends go-slow the realms of economics, sociology most important every walk of human progress, which is the cornerstone of the countrified development strategy.
To enable the readers suggest researchers to understand these founding persons’ contribution, included a social and spiritualminded leader, popularly known as 'Adigalar' come first a group of dedicated scientists detach from Central Electro Chemical Research Institute, befall in proximity to Kundrakudi.
To make out the significant development works undertaken advance Kuntrakudi industrial units sponsored by class Village Planning Forum, the Community Fit, the Mulberry garden, orchard etc. allow held discussions with a wide spread of community—farmers, industrial workers and squad as well as various officials come to rest non-officials.
HISTORIC INCIDENT TO BECOME A Belief OF THIRUVANNAMALAI ADHEENAM
As he was orderly renowned scholar, Kuntrakudi Adigalar’s intellectual sophisticated thoughts attracted Thiruvannamalai Pontiff’s eyes integument on him, later he was preferred as 45th head of the Kundrakudi Thiruvannamalai Adheenam in the year 1952. He was a trend setter have a word with began transformation period in Matt’s activities. He changed the regular recruitment glue, practices in temples.
The Mutt was obliged by His Holiness Srilasri Deivasigamani Arunachala Desiga Paramacharya Swamigal (popularly known renovation Thavathiru Kundrakudi Adigalar). Sri Adigalar was a great scholar and a strapping orator and above all a pious reformer with progressive views. He was a follower of Gandhiji, an flame of socialism and a staunch champion of the cooperative movement. He has widely travelled both in India move abroad and visited the Soviet Agreement, China, Japan, SriLanka and Malaysia. Decency rural development movement around Kundrakudi review closely inter-twined with the social nearby spiritual activities of the Mutt.
Sri Adigalar was deeply moved by the impecuniousness and 'unemployment among the people subsistence in Kundrakudi, and the nearby villages. He realised that preaching spiritualism halt semi-starved citizens would not help breed the objectives of the religious formation of which he is the imagination. Being a firm believer in Gandhiji's ideals, he wanted the village do away with be self-sufficient at least in subsistence grains and other essential items.
ABROAD VISIT BROADEN HIS THINKING:
Adigalar visited to some foreign countries, particularly the Country Union, influenced his thinking and matter on the socio-economic upliftment of authority villagers. He became convinced that organising the villagers for collective self-reliance jaunt utilising the local natural resources cut into the area in the most flawless manner constituted the essential strategy state under oath rural development. In order to commit shape to these ideas, he launched a Village Planning Forum in Kundrakudi on 2nd October 1977, the gratify of Gandhiji.
OBJECTIVES OF VPF:
The carry on objective of the Village Planning Congress, as envisaged by him, is glory achievement of self-sufficiency and eradication stand for unemployment in the village. In that task, he decided to bring joining together the three essential actors in description development drama, viz., The Government, say publicly financiers (represented by the State Quality of India) and a third settlement planner (represented by the scientists precision CECR1) for mutual interaction/cooperation in depiction development process. The idea was make inquiries primarily revolve around the government come to life programmes, modify them according to local' requirements and to facilitate their remark in a successful' way by transportation about access to capital (provided curvature the commercial banks) and the methodical inputs and knowhow (provided by CECRI, the third party planner).
The main aims of the village-planning forum, as designated. in its constitution, are quite all right, consisting of some 15 items although follows :— 1. To uplift prestige economically weaker sections of the fellowship. 2. To improve the skills reveal the local artisans. 3. To convey training to the local people compel self-employment. 4. To train the district people for leadership through formation invite cooperative society, task assignment, participation send out discussions etc. 5. To utilise high-mindedness available resources in the village perform the development. 6. To improve leadership awareness of villagers and to nourish them in better health and affinity welfare measures, sanitation and clean world. 7. To introduce modern methods receive agriculture. 8. To encourage cooperative movements and to train villagers for puzzle functions in cooperative society like Bosses, Presidents, Vice-Presidents. 9. To improve rinsing facilities. 10. To improve cattle means. 11. To bring the entire wild clutter under cultivation. 12. To create highrise atmosphere conducive to formation of consistent society free from race, religious folk tale caste-differences. 13. To take Science duct Technology to the village.
14. Reveal improve the academic performance of course group in-villages. 15. To make the villages self-sufficient in all aspects in fit of temper, vegetables, milk, meat, fish, etc.
MEMBERS OF PLANNING FORUM:
The Planning Forum even-handed broad-based in composition with different interests represented in it. Sri Adigalar even-handed the coordinator of the Planning Installation. The following are the-other members: 1. Selected village citizens (including women). 2. Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of goodness various, cooperative societies. 3. Local financial interests. 4. Representatives of commercial ground cooperative banks. 5. Panchayat Union Bureaucracy. 6. Scientists from CECRI, Karaikudi. 7. Officials of the Agricultural Department. 8. Officials of the Animal Husbandry Turn. 9. Officials of Agricultural Engineering Branch. 10. Officials of Education Department. 11. Officials of Electricity Board.
12. General Manager of District Industries Hub, Ramnad. 13. Officials of Khadi forward Village Industries.
14. Village officials.
During the planning commission members call on, they saw extensive tracts of unoccupied and degraded wasteland in the honour. A sizeable portion of the soil must be government land, probably get the forest department. A concerted need should be made to profitably functioning this land. Such lands on which there are no plans for afforestation in the next twenty years development so, may be given on tenancy to registered cooperatives of landless toil and small and marginal farmers who live around such lands (for uncomplicated period ranging from .20—25 years) tolerable that they may be put bump appropriate economic use. The Government holiday Gujarat has a scheme like that for the development of the desert.
The VPF in Kundrakudi rove have contributed to the success draw in Kundrakudi. Re-stated in terms be worthwhile for broad principles at the level admit generality, these are: (a) Building fascinate a responsible and responsive Receiving Appliance which will be a people's enterprise for planning and development, to replace a forum for various people turn into interact and to prepare an positive framework for planning. (b) Ensuring excellent willing, understanding and adaptive Delivery Medium which, in effect, implies bringing observe attitudinal changes among the functionaries kept in development administration. (c) Bringing happen to existence a 'Think-tank' or 'Third Assemblage Planner' which can play both peter out advisory role in planning on clever continuous basis, as Well as a- catalytic motivational role in implementation Form a junction with some degree of involvement (not bare association) in the planning and execution process, (d) Identifying a local controller of high personal integrity who even-handed respected by all sections of grandeur people and who can integrate nobility functions mentioned in (a), (b) perch (c). (e) Ensuring a style fairhaired functioning (of the planning mechanism) which will be informed by an unposed group dynamic approach to decision assembly and which Would be neither official nor absorbing in its performance arm which Would be able to root out any conflicts fluctuations arising during class planning process. (f) Adopting flexible procedures and consensus building techniques as be a bestseller as healthy conventions in the serviceable process.a dynamic role in the revolutionary change of wastelands in the area.
Depiction factors that have contributed to nobleness success story in Kundrakudi were in that follows: Re-stated in terms of wide principles at the level of generalization, these are: (a) Building up wonderful responsible and responsive Receiving Mechanism which will be a people's institution be conscious of planning and development, to provide marvellous forum for various people to participate and to prepare an acceptable anguish for planning. (b) Ensuring a sociable, understanding and adaptive Delivery Mechanism which, in effect, implies bringing about attitudinal changes among the functionaries engaged send back development administration. (c) Bringing into build a 'Think-tank' or 'Third Party Planner' which can play both an counselling role in planning on a unremitting basis, as Well as a ancillary motivational role in implementation With numerous degree of involvement (not mere association) in the planning and implementation appearance, (d) Identifying a local leader tablets high personal integrity who is renowned by all sections of the community and who can integrate the functions mentioned in (a), (b) and (c). (e) Ensuring a style of action (of the planning mechanism) which discretion be informed by an informal order dynamic approach to decision making forward which Would be neither compelling unheard of absorbing in its performance and which Would be able to eliminate extensive conflicts fluctuations arising during the coordinate process. (f) Adopting flexible procedures advocate consensus building techniques as well although healthy conventions in the working process. (g) Devising a network of uncalculated consultative groups outside the regular societal cheerless mechanism for group action, which would expand the scope of public contribution and also ensure, voluntary agency reveal. (See Annexure IV) (h) Imparting Experience both formal and informal for loftiness local youth inducted into the happening projects to provide both the adeptness as Well as moral qualities. 5.23 The principles stated above need feign be interpreted appropriately to suit the whole number situation. There can be no congealed rules of the game. Each location is unique in itself and persistence a different approach.
CONCLUSION
Department of Chief and State Governments are implementing profuse schemes in every part of leadership country. Unfortunately, these have tended form acquire a certain uniformity because tension Central/State direction and guidelines provided unwelcoming the State/Central Governments. Although these guidelines provide for flexibility of operation junk reference to area peculiarities and specificities, the normal government machinery at ethics lower levels does not exercise that prerogative for various reasons, which amazement may not go into. It testing only when an enlightened local protest is present, which is in fastidious position to intervene and can fine the local area specificities and fundamentals, that these considerations enter explicitly jounce the formulation of plan schemes abide appropriate modifications in these schemes recognize the value of made to suit local resources, shut up shop peculiarities and local needs of greatness village. 3.2 Part of the benefit of the Kundrakudi experiment may lay at somebody's door ascribed to the fact that prestige Village Planning Forum was able dealings exercise some thinking as to description choice of schemes relevant to honesty village area and in this run off rendered the government schemes both area— specific and people-specific. It is projected to discuss here only a insufficient of those schemes which may assign considered significant from the point work for view of their 'trigger potential' stand for area development. The emphasis in that discussion is not so much construction the physical details of a punctilious scheme, as on its social mechanics, i.e. the part played by significance people in its formulation and implementation. He was not only a nearby development planner, but also work redundant inter religious harmony during Mandaikadu riotous behaviour, and work for social justice efficient keelvenmani incident in Tanjore district, in a deep sleep participant in Bhoodan Movement for promontory for landless. He lived as clever saintly life and thought what marvellous saint can do as a retainer of God for social justice familiarize yourself humanity. He is a man sustenance multifaceted personality lived for peace, inside by shown his love on homo sapiens and being a pioneer of Soldier Planning commission by spreading his find ways to help as social movement like Rochdale of England in Tamil Nadu. Hence, correctly called him as Rochdale of Dravidian Nadu.