Sunday, 15 November 2015

The sense of self-respect has to be instilled

“Our approach to rural development should not aim at only materialistic development. This type of approach on the part of government agencies and various social organisations has made even the deprived people paravalambi (dependant on others) by concentrating only at their materialistic development. They failed to involve them in their activities resulting in these people not realising the need to achieve self-reliance. Therefore, the feeling of self-respect that we can solve our problems ourselves and will not unfold our hands before others has to be infused into them. The work of rural development has one more dimension. All their hidden talents, qualities and habit of hard work will resurface only when they are motivated as per the traditional Hindu values of life.” 

— Ma H.V. Seshadri

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