Making optimum use of its rare expertise and rich experience of participatory micro-planning and development, AVARD has integrated micro-planning in the activities of its relevant projects during the period. After imparting need-based training, a good number of micro-plans at the Gram Panchayat level and a few at the Kshettra (Block) Panchayat level through the respective Panchayats have been facilitated by AVARD during the period. Accordingly, the Five Year Plans of the Kshettra (Block) Panchayat and 27 Gram Panchayats in Naugarh project and similar Gram Panchayat plans in women’s empowerment project have been facilitated, all of them with gender-equity and social justice as well as down to earth. Benefits and advantages of micro-level participatory planning and development by Panchayats and people are too well known to be recapitulated here. These plans have been implemented with the resources available under various government schemes. Besides, these plans catalysed considerable development activities and schemes in the respective areas, especially in Naugarh Project.
