The NGO sector in India: historical context and current discourse |
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Authors: | D L Sheth Harsh Sethi |
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Institution: | (1) Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India |
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Abstract: | The last two decades have witnessed a veritable mushrooming of NGOs in India. What, however, is inadequately appreciated is that the conversion of voluntarism into primarily a favoured instrumentality for developmental intervention has changed what was once an organic part of civil society into merely a sector — an appendage of the developmental apparatus of the state. Further, this process of instrumental appropriation has resulted in these agencies of self-activity losing both their autonomy and political-transformative edge. What is required, therefore, is to reorientate voluntarism from a framework of subserving the needs of delivery to one promoting self-governance in the widest sense.This paper is an abbreviated version of a longer monograph prepared for the Indian Council of Social Science Research for inclusion in the forthcoming Survey of Research in Public Administration, ICSSR, Delhi, 1991. |
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