Management of Krishi Vigyan Kendras

by Chauhan, Nikulsinh M

ISBN: 9789351304357
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Imprint : Biotech
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 9495.00
Biblio : xxix+240p., figs., tabls., ind., 23 cm

About The Book

At present, more than 630 Krishi Vigyan Kendras(KVKs) working in India have been designed to have vocational training to the practicing farmers, extension personnel and rural youths as well as for all those who want to seek self-employment. The KVK as a grass root level institution has to meet this need, which is so vital for technical literacy and rapid transfer of technology. The Krishi Vigyan Kendra is an organization, which is concerned with social system having several groups of people like; specialists, administrators, technicians, farmers, extension workers, labourers and other beneficiaries. Each group has its own characteristics, attitudes, traditions, values and forms of behaviour. The people for whose benefits, the extension activities are designed may not be readily interested due to multiplicity of factors like; likeness, inhibitions, taboos, suspiciousness, reservations and prejudices. It is, therefore, expected that manager of the K V K should have enough understanding of such social aspects to get best results out of KVKs. The Programme Coordinators have to perform multifold roles of planner, organizer, director, communicator, controller, supervisor, coordinator, leader, human Relation maintainer and decision-maker. It was, therefore, felt necessary to examine existing extension management abilities of Programme Coordinators of the KVKs. For this, present study on extension management abilities of Programme Coordinators of KVK was undertaken with following objectives : 1. To study personal, job related, organizational and socio-psychological characteristics of the Programme Coordinators of KVKs. 2. To measure the managerial ability of Programme Coordinators of KVKs. 3. To find out the relationship between selected independent variables and managerial ability of the Programme Coordinators of KVKs. 4. To estimate the functional relationship between managerial ability and various independent variables. 5. To study the constraints faced by Programme Coordinators of KVKs in the management of different activities of KVKs and seek their suggestions. The present study was carried out in all the eight zones of India, where Krishi Vigyan Kendras are in operation in transfer of technology process.