Recap Session of 3rd feb, 2009

For Participatory rural Appraisal, Dr. Prakash Bhatt handling PRA topic as a faculty. He is working in BAIF Ngo’s, at present he is on lien. Dr.Bhatt started session by singing a prathrana Kannada song, after that he told all fellows to introduce other fellows who are sitting behind to them. it was a good experience for all fellows to know each other. Later Fellows were asked to form groups and told us to discuss within a group about the problems and cause of developing Indian Villages. Halfan hour was gave to discuss in groups.
During presentation many fellows came out with interesting question like how can we participate people in development etc…All group presented well, by this activity we came to know about basic problems enhancing in villages but not with solution. really we have to think on those problem.
Overall purpose of this exercise is to understand where we stand in knowledge wise and to know the cause & effect relation of problems. Many times Knowledge will restrict us. Knowledge is a bias for all of us. It’s just like ‘ignorance is a thorn and we need a knowledge thorn to remove ignorance thorn’.
later explained about the paradigms, the way we see certain things. In development issues there are some paradigms, how we see the problems is entirely different from how beneficiary oversee the problem. if we want to develop villages means make people to know there problem rather than giving tempravory solution.
Explained about how attitude of the people changed constantly towards problem foreseeing from years later like, we have all the right answer if they have right problem
At last explained about why PRA and before PRA how we have to prepare and during PRA we have to adopt adult -adult relation not parents -child relation. Adult-adult relation means we have to treat them equally, first thing we have to trust each other and then try to find similarities between people not differences. Told to come and prepare by reading resource material.