Constraints in Developing a Model Village

As India lives in its villages, village development has been the core of developmental perspective of India since decades. In this line, the concept of model village development is now in the forefront for overall sustainable village development. But keeping in view the stagnant growth the present study was designed and accordingly, the objective was formulated to identify the constraints that are coming in the way of developing model villages. The research was purposively conducted in Ralegan Siddhi of Maharashtra state; declared as a model village and three common villages namely Pimpalgaon Rotha, Randhe, Garkhindi were selected in the vicinity of the model village for validation of the indicators. Thirty-five respondents comprising fifteen females, fifteen male respondents, and five officials were selected from each of the four villages randomly. An open-ended questionnaire was used to obtain the perception of the villagers about the constraints. Garrette ranking technique was used to rank the constraints and a structured schedule was also used to collect information related to the constraints. Friedman test was used to find the most severe constraint. It was found that the most severe constraint in developing model villages was decreased community participation followed by increased migration, the presence of social evil and lack of responsiveness towards society.