Mukti Bahini. The social volunteers necessary for the movement may be recruited from among these young men. In course of their work they may be given a short course of training in the philosophy (social, political, and economic aspects) of the movement. With this background the social workers will be in a position to impart the motivation to our people. Their main function shall be to generate a movement which will embrace all classes of the villagers, and to create conditions so that the movement is sustained and carried on by the villagers themselves through their increasing awareness of its supreme necessity.
In the past there was no democracy in the real sense in the country at any level. With an autocratic and dictatorial centre, there cannot be any democracy at the circumference and vice-versa. It is hoped that in future there will be democracy both at the centre and at the circumference. This alone can ensure effective and meaningful participation by the people in the movement. It must have the character of a movement so that the people can be attracted to it.
The precise number of social workers will depend on the area and size of the population and also on the availability of workers. The workers must be devoted and energetic. They must try to get into the skin of the people and create a living fellowship with the rural people. By their conduct, character, behavior and attitude they must create the impression that they are a natural and normal part and parcel of the village communities. Complete avoidance of arrogance and a friendly attitude on their part will draw the people to the movement. A serious responsibility is imposed on the social workers who must realize it themselves. It needs creative and effective backing of the political leaders who will look upon politics as the grand avenue for service to mankind.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
The local self-governing bodies-village Panchayet, the Union Board Development Block, District Board-shall be integrated with the Community Development Projects. These local self-governing bodies seem to be the appropriate institutional mechanisms for this purpose. Detailed administrative arrangements are discussed in the next section.
The fundamental assumption on which the whole edifice of local self governing bodies is based is that good government is no substitute for self government. It begins by admitting the obvious fact that all problems are not central in their incidence, and that to leave to the Central Government the decision of problems which affect only a portion of the community is to destroy in that portion the sense of responsibility and the habit of inventiveness. The inhabitants of a given area need a consciousness of a common purpose, a sense of the needs of the neighborhood, which only they can fully know. They then find that the power to satisfy them of themselves gives to them a quality of vigor for greater in the happiness it produces than would be the case if satisfaction were always provided by or controlled from, without. Because, administration from without lacks the vitalizing ability to be responsive to local opinion; it misses shades and expressions of thought which are urgent to successful government. It lacks the genius of the place. It does not elicit creative support from those over whom it rules. It makes for mechanical uniformity, an effort to apply similar rules to unsimilar things. It is too distant from the
